Reduce an image to under 2 MB
Big photos and scans under a 2 MB limit with their full resolution kept where possible.
- Nothing is uploaded
- Works offline after first visit
- Open source
- No watermark · limit is your device’s memory; phones hold less
Get large photos and scans under a 2 MB limit for applications, rental and insurance forms, or email, at near-original quality. It is free, needs no account and adds no watermark, and your files are not uploaded: everything runs in your browser on your device. The size limit is your device’s memory, and phones hold less; give the page a short while after one visit to save itself for offline use, and then it works offline.
Done
Open the network tab. Your files never appear in it.
Add files and run the tool to see every request this tab makes.
Your files are processed on this device and never sent to a server. Reload the page to clear everything from memory.
Two megabytes is the usual cap on rental and mortgage applications, insurance claims, university admissions and visa portals, where you upload photos of documents, damage or IDs. Scans from a flatbed and 48 or 50 megapixel phone photos easily run to 8 or 15 MB.
Nothing is scaled down unless it has to be: each file is saved at the highest JPG or WebP quality that fits under 2 MB, which for most photos is visually identical to the original, and text on scanned pages stays sharp. Very large scans are brought down in resolution just enough to fit.
These are often the most personal files people own: passports, bank letters, medical bills. They are processed inside your browser tab and never sent anywhere.
Phone photos of paper documents are usually the biggest offenders, because the camera stores texture, shadows and colour that a document does not need. A 12 megapixel page photo typically lands around 1 to 1.5 MB here with the text still crisp; photos from 48 or 50 megapixel main cameras are reduced in resolution a little to fit.
How it works
- Drop the photos or scans.
- Keep 2 MB or type the limit on the form.
- Press Compress to 2 MB.
In your browser, not on a server
Resizing uses stepped downscaling on a canvas so text and edges stay sharp, and the browser encodes the result at the quality you choose. Everything happens in memory in your tab. Large batches are processed one image at a time so the page stays responsive on a phone.
Compared with upload-based tools: Image compressors that upload your photos limit you to a few files, a small size, or a watermark until you pay. This one has no counter to reset because there is no server to keep one.
Verify it yourself. Give the page a short while after one visit to save itself for offline use, then turn off Wi-Fi or switch to airplane mode and run the tool again. Or open your browser's developer tools (F12, or Cmd-Option-I on a Mac), pick the Network tab, and watch it while you convert. The panel above does the same count for you.
Questions
I need a PDF under 2 MB, not an image.
Use Compress PDF for a PDF. If you are building one from photos, compress the photos here first and then combine them with Image to PDF; the PDF ends up close to the sum of the image sizes.
Will a document scan stay readable?
Yes. At 2 MB a full A4 or Letter page keeps its resolution in almost every case. If a form rejects the file as blurry, save as PNG only for a page of pure text, otherwise keep JPG.
Can I do a whole claim’s worth of photos at once?
Yes. Drop them all; each is fitted separately and they download together as a zip with their original names.
Is the file uploaded anywhere?
No. There is no server in this process. The page is a static file and the work is done by code running inside your browser tab. Give the page a short while after one visit to save itself for offline use; then you can turn off Wi-Fi and it still works.
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