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Free online image tools that never upload your files

Almost every image tool on the web works the same way. You pick a file, it uploads to a server you know nothing about, something happens there, and you download the result. For a holiday photo that may be fine. For a product shot before launch, a scan of a document, or a client's artwork, handing the file to a stranger's server is a real problem.

Our image tools work differently. Your browser can already decode, resize and re-encode images on its own, so that is exactly what happens. The file is read from your disk into the page, processed by your own device, and handed straight back to you. That is how the image resizer and the compressor both work. It never travels anywhere. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and the tool keeps working.

The image compressor is the first tool in this category. It shrinks JPG, PNG and WebP files by re-encoding them at a quality level you control, and shows you the exact saving before you download. Most photos lose between half and nine tenths of their size with no visible difference, which is usually the single biggest speed win available to a website.

Because nothing is uploaded there are no file size caps, no daily limits and no queue. Compress fifty images one after another if you want. The only limit is your own device, and modern phones handle this easily.

Since those first few tools the set has grown into a small darkroom. The crop tool cuts to exact pixels or to a social aspect preset, the aspect ratio calculator works out the missing dimension so nothing gets squashed, and the image splitter cuts one picture into the numbered tiles an Instagram grid post needs. For putting several photos together instead of taking one apart, the collage maker fits them into a grid without stretching anyone, and the meme generator does the classic heavy caption treatment with no watermark on the way out.

Two of these exist for privacy rather than looks. The EXIF remover strips the metadata a camera buries inside a photo, which on a phone usually includes the exact coordinates where you stood, and the pixelate and blur tool destroys the pixels behind a face, a license plate or an account number, which is different from laying a black rectangle on top that somebody can drag away later.

For format work there is WebP conversion with a live size comparison, SVG to PNG rendering at whatever width you need, HEIC to JPG for iPhone photos that Windows refuses to open, and image to Base64 for embedding a small graphic straight into code. Designers get the color palette extractor and the image color picker for pulling colors out of a photo, the favicon generator for a complete site icon set, image to text for reading words out of a screenshot, and the video to GIF converter for turning a clip into something that autoplays anywhere. The screen recorder captures a screen, a window or a tab with your microphone and saves the file straight to your device, with no time limit and no watermark, because the video never goes to a server in the first place.

More image tools are on the way. If there is one you need, tell us on the contact page and it will go on the list.