85+ Things You Can Do With Free Image Tools (No Upload, Ever)

Every tool on this site does one job, runs entirely in your browser, and never uploads the file you give it — that's the whole design. Which also means there's no single "editor" to tour, so it's easy to miss that a tool for exactly what you need already exists. This page is the index: every real task these 60-odd tools solve, grouped by what you're actually trying to do.

Nothing here needs an account, a watermark stays off unless you put one on yourself, and there's no server in the loop to worry about.

Convert between formats

• Open an iPhone photo on Windows or Android that won't open at all — HEIC to JPG.
• Get an iPhone photo into PNG when you need transparency further down the pipeline — HEIC to PNG.
• Turn a WebP file someone sent you into a JPG your software actually accepts — WebP to JPG.
• Convert a JPG to PNG the moment you realise you need a transparent background — JPG to PNG.
• Convert a PNG to JPG for a form that only takes JPG — transparent areas fill white, not the black some converters produce — PNG to JPG.
• Convert product photos to WebP for a faster-loading site — Image to WebP.
• Get the smallest possible file for a hero image with AVIF — Image to AVIF.
• Open an AVIF file in software that can't read it yet — AVIF to JPG.
• Combine several photos into one PDF, in the order you choose — Image to PDF.
• Pull every page out of a PDF as separate images — PDF to Image.
• Get a data URI to paste straight into CSS or HTML — Image to Base64.
• Open an old scanner BMP file in anything modern — BMP & TIFF converter.
• Open an old scanner TIFF file the same way — BMP & TIFF converter.

Compress and check file size

• Shrink a whole folder of photos before emailing them — Compress image.
• Compress one JPG with a live before/after preview so you can see exactly what quality costs — Compress JPG.
• Shrink a PNG screenshot without blurring the text in it — Compress PNG.
• Re-compress a WebP file that's still too heavy — Compress WebP.
• Hit an exact 20KB, 50KB or 200KB ceiling a form demands, on the first try — Compress to exact KB.
• Check a photo's dimensions, format and weight before you upload it anywhere — Image size checker.

Resize, crop and lay out

• Set exact pixel dimensions for one specific platform — Resize image.
• Scale a whole batch down by percentage with the aspect ratio locked — Resize image.
• Drag a box to crop a photo visually — Crop image.
• Type exact crop coordinates instead of dragging, for pixel-precise work — Crop image.
• Apply one crop template across an entire folder of product photos — Bulk crop.
• Get an Instagram-ready size from one upload — Social media resizer.
• Get a YouTube thumbnail size the same way — Social media resizer.
• Get a LinkedIn banner or post size without hunting down the exact pixels — Social media resizer.
• Set a physical print size in cm or mm at a DPI you choose — Resize to cm or mm.
• Fix a sideways phone photo — Rotate & flip.
• Mirror a photo that scanned in backwards — Rotate & flip.
• Cut a round profile picture with a transparent surround — Circle crop.
• Add a coloured border around a photo — Add border.
• Pad an image with transparent margin before using it as a source for an icon or favicon — Add border.
• Arrange several photos into one grid for a bug report or a summary image — Photo collage.
• Build an Instagram-style grid collage from a set of photos — Photo collage.

Check and protect your privacy

• See exactly what GPS coordinates a photo is carrying before you post it — EXIF viewer.
• Check the camera and exposure settings behind a photo, out of photography curiosity — EXIF viewer.
• Strip all metadata from a batch of photos before posting publicly — Remove metadata.
• Strip metadata before sending photos to a client or a lawyer, where the timestamp or location shouldn't travel with the file — Remove metadata.
• See where a batch of vacation photos was actually taken — Photo GPS extractor.
• Export a batch of photo locations as a GPX file for Google Earth or a mapping tool — Photo GPS extractor.
• Blur a face in a group photo before sharing it — Blur face.
• Pixelate a licence plate for that unmistakably-redacted look — Blur face.
• Black out an account number on a screenshot so it can't be recovered, not just visually hidden — Redact image.
• Black out text in a scanned document the same permanent way — Redact image.

Watermark your work

• Stamp a logo watermark with your own opacity and position — Add watermark.
• Add a text watermark instead of a logo — Add watermark.
• Tile a repeating watermark across an entire batch of photos, in one pass — Bulk watermark.

Make, edit and convert GIFs

• Turn a sequence of photos into a looping animation — GIF maker.
• Trim a video clip into a looping GIF — Video to GIF.
• Turn a screen recording into a GIF for a README or a bug report — Video to GIF.
• Pull every individual frame out of a GIF as a PNG sequence — GIF to frames.
• Shrink a GIF that's too big for a chat app's upload limit — Compress GIF.
• Scale a GIF up or down without breaking its loop — Resize GIF.
• Convert a GIF to MP4 for a fraction of the file size, to embed as an autoplaying video — GIF to MP4.
• Shrink a meme GIF before sending it, converted straight to video — GIF to MP4.

Generate developer assets

• Generate every favicon size a site needs, plus the manifest snippet — Favicon generator.
• Generate the full iOS AppIcon.appiconset from one square image — App icon generator.
• Generate the full Android launcher icon set and Play Store icon the same way — App icon generator.
• Build a 1200×630 social preview card for a blog post — OG image generator.
• Build a product-announcement preview card with a tag and a screenshot panel — OG image generator.
• Pull the dominant colours out of a reference photo for a design system — Colour palette extractor.
• Match a colour scheme from a logo or screenshot — Colour palette extractor.
• Sample one exact pixel and copy its hex code — Colour picker.
• Strip Illustrator or Figma editor cruft out of an SVG file — SVG optimiser.
• Pack a folder of icons into one sprite sheet, with the matching CSS already written — Sprite sheet generator.
• Generate a tiny blurred placeholder string for a lazy-loaded image — Placeholder generator.

Social, fun and captions

• Make a top-and-bottom-text meme, the classic way — Meme generator.
• Turn a plain screenshot into a mockup with a gradient background and a device frame — Screenshot beautifier.
• Generate an App Store-style screenshot for a listing — Screenshot beautifier.
• Add a caption to a photo with your own font, colour and shadow — Text on image.
• Apply a colour-grading preset to a photo — Photo filters.
• Add film grain and a faded look for a vintage feel — Photo filters.
• Crop a photo to the official passport size for any country — Passport photo maker.
• Crop to the US 2×2 inch passport photo spec specifically — Passport photo maker.
• Crop to India's current 35×45mm passport photo spec (updated September 2025) — Passport photo maker.

Indian exam and recruitment forms

• Merge a photo and signature into one file for an IBPS or SBI-style form — Photo & signature joiner.
• Get a signature under 10KB or 20KB without it turning grey — Signature resizer.
• Hit the 20KB–50KB window most Indian exam portals demand for a photo — Exam photo resizer.
• Pick your exact exam and get the size rules filled in automatically — Portal presets.
• Get IBPS's specific photo and signature dimensions without looking them up — Portal presets.
• Get SSC's specific exam photo size the same way — Portal presets.
• Tile one passport photo into a 4×6 sheet ready to print — Passport photo sheet.

Why "no upload" is the point, not a footnote

Every one of these runs as JavaScript in your own browser tab — the file is decoded, processed and re-encoded on your device, and the result downloads straight back to you. Nothing is sent anywhere in between. For most of the list above that's a convenience; for the privacy tools and the exam-form tools specifically, it's the actual reason to use a browser tool instead of a random upload-and-download website in the first place — a photo's GPS coordinates, or a signature scan for a government form, isn't something you necessarily want passing through someone else's server on the way to being resized.

If you came looking for something that isn't listed above, check the full tool list — new tools get added regularly, and this page gets updated to match.