Image Cropper (Crop a Picture to Any Size)
Crop a picture by dragging, or to a set shape like square, 16:9 or A4. Do one, or centre-crop fifty at once.
Free forever, no sign-up and no limits, and this tool installs on its own so you can keep it on your home screen.
Drag a box over your picture and save just that part, or pick a shape like square, 16:9 or A4 and have it fitted for you. The exact pixel size shows as you drag, and a batch of up to 50 pictures can be cropped to the same shape in one go.
How to use it
- Choose a picture, or fiftyTap the box or drop pictures straight in. One picture opens for dragging; a batch skips the dragging and crops them all to the shape you pick.
- Mark the part you wantDrag inside the box to move it, drag a corner to resize, or drag anywhere on the picture to start a fresh box. Pick a shape first and the box holds that shape while you drag.
- DownloadFiles save with their new size in the name, like photo-1080x1080.jpg, so a crop never overwrites the original. A batch saves as one ZIP or a row at a time.
Cropping is a decision about what to leave out
Every other image tool changes how a picture is stored. Cropping changes what the picture is of. Moving the box a few centimetres decides whether a photograph is about a person or about the room they are standing in, so the useful thing a cropper can give you is a clear view of the frame while you make that call. That is why the box dims everything outside it and draws the thirds guide inside it, and why the pixel size updates while you drag rather than after you let go.
Shape first, then position
Most crops are made to fit somewhere: a profile picture, a link preview, a printed page. Those places specify a shape, not a size, because they scale whatever you give them. Pick the shape before you drag and the box will not let you drift off it, which removes the commonest disappointment in cropping, getting the framing right and then finding the result is 4:3 when the space wanted 16:9.
The working shapes: 1:1 for avatars and square posts, 4:5 for portrait posts, 9:16 for stories and reels, 3:2 for anything that came out of a camera, 4:3 for older cameras and slides, 16:9 for video and wide banners, and A4 for print.
Fifty at a time, with a say in what survives
Dragging a box makes sense for one picture and no sense at all for fifty, so a batch works from the shape instead. Each picture gets the largest rectangle of that shape that fits inside it, which keeps every result at full resolution rather than scaling anything down. The one real choice left is which part to keep, and it matters more than it sounds: on portraits, a centre crop is the reason so many batch-cropped headshots lose the top of the head. Top, Centre and Bottom are there so that is your decision rather than an accident.
What this tool will not do
It crops rectangles. It will not cut a circle or a shape out of a picture, it will not remove a background, and it does not rotate or straighten, which is a separate job with separate controls. It also cannot add to a picture: if you need a wider frame than the photograph contains, no crop can produce it.
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Questions people ask
How do I crop a picture to a perfect square?
Tap Square 1:1 before you drag. The box then holds a square no matter which corner you pull, so you choose what is in the frame and the shape looks after itself. For a batch, every picture gets the largest square that fits inside it.
Does cropping reduce the quality of the picture?
No. Cropping copies the pixels you kept at their original size, it does not stretch or resample them, so what stays is exactly as sharp as it was. The file gets smaller only because there are fewer pixels in it. JPEGs are re-encoded at high quality on save, which is the one place a very slight loss can occur, and it is not visible at normal viewing sizes.
What size should a crop be for Instagram?
A square post is 1:1, a portrait post is 4:5 and a story or reel is 9:16. All three are on the shape row. Instagram scales whatever you give it, so the shape matters much more than the pixel count: get the shape right and nothing is cut off in the feed.
Can I crop to an exact number of pixels?
Yes. The width and height boxes under the picture accept exact numbers and the crop box follows as you type. With a shape selected, typing one side moves the other to match rather than overruling what you typed.
Can I crop lots of pictures at once?
Yes, up to 50. Dragging a box needs one picture to drag on, so a batch works from a shape instead: each picture gets the largest rectangle of that shape that fits inside it, which means the results share a shape even when the sources were different sizes. Pick Top, Centre or Bottom to say which part to keep.
Why should I choose Top for a batch of portraits?
Because faces sit above the middle of a photo. A centre crop on a tall portrait takes the top of the head or the chin, whereas keeping the top of the frame keeps the face. For landscapes and scenery, Centre is usually right.
Does cropping remove the location stored in a photo?
Yes. The saved copy carries the pixels and nothing else, so the camera data a phone tucks into a photo, including where it was taken, the device model and the date, stays in your original and does not travel with the crop.
What is the A4 shape for?
It matches the proportions of an A4 page, 210 by 297 millimetres, so a picture cropped to it fills a printed page without white bars down the sides or the printer trimming the edges. It is the right choice for anything heading into a document or a flyer.