Crop an Image or Photo Online, to Any Shape or Size
Need a photo square for Instagram, or tall for a story? Convertavo's free crop tool lets you drag a box over the part you want to keep, right in your browser. Most crops are done in 2 to 5 seconds.
- ✓ No signup
- ✓ No quality lost
- ✓ Deleted after 1 hour
Your files stay private
Uploads are deleted from our servers one hour after processing. Nothing is read or reused, and nothing is kept unless you save it to your account.
No account required
20 free credits a day, with no email address and no watermarks on the output.
Runs on any device
Works in any modern browser on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
How to crop an image online
No app to install, and no account needed.
- STEP 01
Add your images
Add one picture, a few, or a whole folder. JPG, PNG and WebP files work, up to 25 MB each.
- STEP 02
Choose a ratio
Tap 1:1, 9:16, 16:9 or another ratio, or leave it on Free. Then drag the box over the part you want to keep.
- STEP 03
Crop and download
Click Crop images and download the picture, cut to shape.
The numbers under the picture show the size of your crop in pixels as you drag.
What the Crop Image tool does
Ratio buttons
Tap 1:1 for Instagram or 9:16 for a story. However you drag the box after that, it stays that shape.
Fix a crooked photo
We added a slider for the angle, so a slanted horizon can be put right before you crop. There's a flip button too.
One crop for a whole batch
Draw the box once and every picture gets cut the same way.
What shape should I crop my photo to?
If you post the wrong shape, the app crops it for you, and it doesn't care who's in the picture. That's how someone in a group photo loses the top of their head. Cropping it yourself first means you decide what stays.
| Ratio | Use it for |
|---|---|
| 1:1 square | Instagram feed posts, profile pictures, product photos |
| 9:16 tall | Instagram and Facebook Stories, Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts |
| 16:9 wide | YouTube thumbnails, slides, wide banners |
| 4:3 and 3:2 | Printed photos, and the shape most cameras already shoot in |
Crop or resize: which one do I need?
Take the photo in the picture below. It's 1600 × 900. When we cropped it to a square we got 900 × 900. The people on the left and right were gone, and the one in the middle was just as sharp as before. Resizing it instead gave us 800 × 450. Everyone was still there, the picture was just made of fewer pixels.
So it comes down to whether you're happy to lose part of the picture. If you aren't, and the file is only too big, resize it instead. Quite often it's both, and then we'd crop first and resize after.
How do I crop a photo to exact pixels?
We tried this with a 4032 × 3024 test image, the size most phones shoot at. With 1:1 on, the biggest square it allowed was 3024 × 3024, and those numbers sat under the picture the whole time we dragged. That crop came out as a 661 KB PNG.
Next it went into Resize Image, set to 600 × 600. Nothing got squashed, because it was square already, and the file dropped to 77 KB.
The form we had in mind also wanted less than 50 KB. Compress Image with a 50 KB target turned it into a 34.5 KB JPG.
Can I straighten or flip a photo while cropping?
Yes. Our test image was 4032 × 3024, wider than it was tall. After one tap on the round arrow it was 3024 × 4032 instead. That's the fix for a phone photo that comes out sideways.
A slightly crooked horizon needs the angle slider instead. It moves in half-degree steps. We tried 2.5°, and the turn left small white corners at the edges. Pulling the crop box in a little cut those off, and we ended up with a straight 3600 × 2600 picture.
The flip buttons mirror the photo side to side or top to bottom. Handy for a selfie where the writing came out backwards.
Can I crop images in bulk, all at once?
Yes. Add several pictures, or a whole folder, and keep Apply the same crop to every image switched on. It's on by default. You draw the box once and every picture is cut in the same place.
This works best when the photos are the same size, like 50 product shots from one camera. Without an account you can do 3 at a time, a free account takes 10, and the biggest plan takes 100.
If each picture needs its own crop, switch that option off. Then you can click through the images one by one and place a different box on each.
Does cropping make a photo blurry?
No. We checked our 3024 × 3024 crop against the same patch of the original, pixel by pixel, and every one of them matched.
It can look soft if you take a tiny piece out of a big photo and then blow it up on a big screen. There just aren't many pixels in that piece, so start from the biggest version of the photo you have.
We save every crop as a PNG, which keeps the picture exactly as it was. Our 326 KB test image did come out as a 661 KB PNG, though. If the size matters, Compress Image will bring it back down.
Is Convertavo's crop tool free and safe to use?
Is it free?
Yes. You get 20 free credits a day and each image uses 1 credit, so that's 20 crops a day. No email, and no watermark on your picture.
Files can be up to 25 MB without an account and 100 MB with a free one. Standard plans and above also get priority processing.
What happens to my photos?
They go over a secure HTTPS connection and are deleted from our servers one hour after processing. We don't keep them, look at them or reuse them.
Can I crop pictures on my phone?
Sure. We made the corner handles big enough to grab with a thumb, so it works fine on Android and iPhone. On a computer, any modern browser on Windows, macOS or Linux will do.
Got a photo in the wrong shape? Drop it into Convertavo above and crop it in a few seconds.
Crop imagesCommon questions about cropping images
What people usually ask us about cropping.
How do I crop an image to a square?
That's the 1:1 button. Our 4032 x 3024 test photo came out 3024 x 3024 with it. Where the square sits is up to you.
How do I crop a photo to 9:16 for stories?
With the 9:16 button. It's the shape Instagram and Facebook Stories use, and Reels, TikTok and YouTube Shorts as well. A picture already in that shape doesn't get cut again.
Can I crop an image to exact pixels?
Not in one go. Our way is a 1:1 crop here and then 600 x 600 in the Resize Image tool. You'll see the pixel size of the box the whole time you drag.
Can I crop several images at once?
Yes. With Apply the same crop to every image switched on, one box is used for the whole batch. It's best for photos that are all the same size.
Does cropping reduce image quality?
No. We compared a 3024 x 3024 crop with the original and every pixel matched. Things only go soft when a tiny crop gets blown up.
How do I cut a person out of a photo?
That's a different job from cropping. Use our Remove Background tool, which cuts the person out and removes everything behind them.
Is this a free online photo cropper?
Yes. It is a crop tool that runs in your browser, so you can cut an image or a picture down to size with no app and no account. It works the same for JPG, PNG and WebP.
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