Crop images online, free and private

The crop editor opens on the original photo. In free mode you can drag any edge or corner to keep exactly the part you want. Choose one of the fixed shapes – 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 2:3, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 or 9:16 – and the box keeps that proportion while you move and resize it. The editor shows the size in pixels that the result will have, so you know what you are about to download.

The box also responds to the keyboard: focus it and use the arrow keys to nudge it a pixel at a time, or hold Shift to move faster. That makes precise adjustments possible on phones and trackpads where dragging is fiddly.

Cropping happens before anything else. If you also set a maximum width or height, it is applied to the cropped area, so a 4000 × 3000 photo cropped to a square and limited to 1080 px comes out at 1080 × 1080. Filters, the output format, the quality slider, a target file size and the print resolution all work together with the crop in the same pass.

Because the crop changes the picture, the result is always saved as a new file, even when you keep the original format. The never-larger rule for plain compression only applies when nothing about the picture was changed.

Product photos, team portraits and gallery images often need the same proportion. Pick a shape in the settings and every image in the batch is cropped around its center. If a few images need a different framing, open them one by one and draw their own crop. The images with their own crop are counted in the settings so you can see how many exceptions you have made.

The preview above the list always shows the crop that will be applied to the selected image, so you can click through the list and check the framing before you apply.

Decoding, cropping and encoding all run inside your browser with web workers. The photos are not sent to a server, and the crop editor works on the copy of the photo that is already on your screen. Re-encoded files do not keep EXIF metadata such as camera model or GPS position.