Crop an image
Drag a box over the part you want, pick a ratio or a circle, and download the crop. The photo never leaves this device.
- Nothing is uploaded
- Works offline after first visit
- Open source
- No watermark · limit is your device’s memory; phones hold less
Crops a photo to a box you draw, exact pixels, a square, 16:9, a passport size or a circle, and saves the cropped image. 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.
Drag the box to move it, drag a corner or edge to resize it. Arrow keys nudge it by one pixel (hold Shift for ten).
Done
Free, no ads. Support StayPut
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.
How it works
- Drop a photo (JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF or JPEG XL), or tap to pick one.
- Drag the crop box into place and resize it from the corners, or pick a ratio such as square, 4:5 or 16:9 and type exact pixel values.
- Choose rectangle or circle and the output format, then crop. The file downloads from your browser.
In your browser, not on a server
The photo is decoded by your browser (or by the libheif and Squoosh WebAssembly decoders for HEIC, AVIF and JPEG XL) and drawn onto a canvas in your tab. The crop box you drag maps to a rectangle of source pixels; those pixels are copied onto a new canvas, clipped to a circle if you asked for one, and encoded once in the format you chose. No pixel is resampled unless it has to be.
Compared with upload-based tools: Online croppers upload the whole photo to crop a corner of it, then hand back a recompressed copy through a page full of ads. This one crops at full resolution on your device and finishes before an upload would have started.
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
Does cropping reduce the quality of the photo?
Cropping only removes pixels outside the box; the pixels you keep are copied as they are. The file is then encoded once in the format you choose. Set JPG quality to 90 or higher, or pick PNG, to avoid any visible loss.
How do I crop to exact dimensions like 1080 by 1080?
Pick the aspect ratio you want, then type the width in the Width box; the height follows the ratio and the box stays inside the image. Left and Top set where the crop starts. The tool crops at the photo’s native resolution and never enlarges.
How does the circle crop work?
Choose Circle and the crop box becomes a circle (the ratio is set to square). Everything outside the circle becomes transparent, so the output is a PNG or WebP, ready for a profile picture or an avatar. JPG cannot hold transparency, which is why it is switched off for circles.
Which sizes are built in?
Free, square, 4:5 and 9:16 for Instagram and stories, 16:9 for covers and video thumbnails, 3:2 and 4:3 photo ratios in both orientations, and the 35 by 45 mm passport photo ratio used by most countries. For a US 2 by 2 inch passport photo use square.
Can I crop an animated GIF?
This page crops one picture. For an animated GIF, use Crop GIF, which crops every frame to the same box and keeps the timing.
Is the photo uploaded?
No. The image is decoded and cropped on a canvas inside your browser tab. After one visit and a short wait you can switch off Wi-Fi and crop as many photos as you like.
More image tools
Blur & pixelate image
Hide faces, plates, addresses and account numbers before you share a photo. The photo never leaves this device.
Rotate & flip image
Fix a sideways photo, a mirrored selfie or an upside-down scan. One image or a batch, and none of them leave this device.
Color picker from image
Point at any pixel to get its HEX, RGB and HSL code, and see the main colours of the picture. The image stays on this device.
Image to text
Get the words out of a photo, screenshot or scanned page, ready to copy. The image is read on this device and never uploaded.
Popular conversions
Guides
- A free ezgif alternative with no file size capEzgif caps how big a file you can upload. Here is an alternative where your video is never uploaded.
- A free iLoveIMG alternative that doesn't upload your imagesiLoveIMG's free plan works, with caps on batch size and file size per task. Here is what changes when the image never leaves your device.
- A free TinyPNG alternative with no 5 MB cap and no uploadTinyPNG compresses well, but every image goes to its servers first, with a 5 MB cap on the free plan. Here is what changes when the image never leaves your device.
- Is ezgif safe?Ezgif is a legitimate, popular GIF tool with a short deletion window. The file you are about to drop in decides whether uploading it is fine.