Image cropper
Crop an image to any size or aspect ratio — fully client-side.
Runs 100% in your browserDrop an image, paste from clipboard, or
How to crop an image
- Drop or pick an image. Any browser-decodable image.
- Drag the selection. Move and resize the rectangle. Lock to an aspect ratio if needed.
- Export. Pick format and quality, then download.
Cropping is cutting, not scaling
Cropping removes the parts of an image outside a selection — it changes the framing and composition, keeping a region at its original pixel density. That makes it a different tool from resizing, which scales the whole image to new dimensions. Reach for cropping to straighten a horizon, cut out distractions, tighten a portrait, or reframe a wide photo to fit a specific slot. Because the kept pixels are untouched, a crop never softens the image the way upscaling can; you are simply discarding the pixels you do not want.
Aspect-ratio presets
Most cropping is really about hitting a target shape, which is why the common social-media ratios are presets: 1:1 for an Instagram square or an avatar, 4:5 for a portrait feed post, 9:16 for full-screen Stories and Reels, and 16:9 for YouTube thumbnails and slides. Locking a ratio keeps the selection proportional as you drag, so the result drops straight into the destination without letterboxing or an awkward auto-crop. Free-form cropping is there too when you just need to trim. Working at display size, the readout shows the equivalent source-pixel region, and the export is rendered at full resolution — so you crop on a convenient preview but keep every original pixel inside the selection.
Export format and privacy
Choose the export format by content. PNG is lossless and ignores the quality slider — best for screenshots, graphics and anything with sharp edges or transparency. JPEG and WebP honour the quality slider (start around 0.85 and lower to taste) and are smaller for photographs. The whole crop happens on a canvas in your browser, so the image is never uploaded. Need a different operation? Scale the whole image with the image resizer, reduce its file size with the image compressor, or remove embedded location data with the EXIF stripper.
Frequently asked questions
- No. Cropping is done with canvas APIs in your browser. The strict CSP blocks all outbound requests.
- Any image your browser can decode — PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, AVIF. The output format is JPEG, PNG or WebP, your choice.
- Yes — pick a preset (1:1, 4:5, 16:9, etc.) and the selection locks to that ratio. Choose Free for arbitrary crops.
- Canvas re-encodes pixels, so EXIF is stripped along with the rest of the metadata — useful if you want a clean output. Use the EXIF stripper if you only want to remove metadata without recompressing.