WizeCrop an image without sending it anywhere
Drag the frame over the image, or choose a format. Nothing leaves your phoneyour tabletyour computer.
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JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF · one image at a time, no size limit
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How it works
Drop an image, drag the frame over the part you want to keep, then click Crop. The pixels kept are copied as they are into a new image: nothing is recalculated, nothing is stretched.
The frame moves when you drag it by the middle and resizes from its four corners. With the keyboard, the arrow keys move it and the arrow keys with Shift resize it.
Crop or resize
The two actions are often confused, and they do the opposite of each other.
Cropping cuts away part of the image and keeps the rest at its original size. That’s what you want to tighten on a subject, cut off a distracting edge or get an exact format.
Resizing keeps the whole image but changes its dimensions. That’s what you want to make a file lighter or fit it into a space.
If what you need is an exact format without losing anything, there’s no solution: one of the two actions is needed, and it’s up to you to choose what you’d rather sacrifice, content or proportions.
The formats offered
Free constrains nothing; the frame takes whatever shape you give it.
Square is for profile pictures and most thumbnails.
16:9 is the format of screens and videos, 4:3 that of older cameras and many projectors, 3:2 that of DSLRs and film photography.
A chosen format constrains the frame as you drag it: it always stays exactly in the requested proportion, even when you push it against an edge.
One image at a time, on purpose
Unlike compression and resizing, this tool doesn’t process batches. The reason isn’t technical: a crop is chosen on a specific image, by looking at what you keep. Applying the same rectangle to a whole batch would give wrong results as soon as two images aren’t the same size, and nobody would check the twenty files produced.
So this isn’t an artificial limit in the sense of our rule; it’s the scope of the tool, and it’s written on the drop zone.
What cropping costs your image
The area kept loses nothing: its pixels are copied exactly, with no resampling. In PNG, the result is strictly the same as the original portion.
In JPG, the file has to be saved again, and this format always loses a little with each save. The loss is small, since the tool saves again at quality 95, but it exists.
EXIF data, however, isn’t copied: the date, camera model and GPS location disappear from the resulting image.
Frequently asked questions
Are my images sent anywhere? No. You can check for yourself in thirty seconds: here is how.
What’s the difference between cropping and resizing? Cropping cuts away part of the image and keeps the rest at its original size. Resizing keeps the whole image but changes its dimensions. Cropping removes content; resizing removes none.
Does quality drop? Not for the area kept: the pixels retained are copied as they are, with no resampling. In JPG, the file is saved again, which costs a very small but real loss.
Can I crop several images at once? No, and that’s deliberate. A crop is chosen on a specific image: applying the same rectangle to a whole batch would give wrong results as soon as the images aren’t the same size. To process a batch, resizing and compression accept as many files as you like.
What happens to EXIF data? It disappears. Date, camera model and GPS location aren’t copied into the resulting image.