Useful ratios, not guesswork
Start freeform or switch to 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 and 9:16 for profiles, photos, video covers and vertical posts.
Crop the part that matters
Drag the frame, choose a useful ratio, straighten the orientation and export exact pixels. Your original never leaves this device.
Crop ratio
Adjust image
Your crop is ready
Cropping and encoding happen locally. No request contains your image.
1:1 · 4:3 · 3:2 · 16:9 · 9:16
A cropper built for the next step
Exact pixels at export
Keep the crop’s natural detail or request a precise width and height. Locked dimensions stay proportional.
Continue without re-selecting
Send the finished crop straight to compression, format conversion or the app-icon studio through a short-lived local handoff.
What happens to the original?
Nothing. Editing changes only the preview transform. Export renders a new file, and the source stays untouched on your device.
Before you start
Almost nobody crops for its own sake. There is a destination with a rule attached: a profile picture that must be square, a header that gets cut off at a fixed height, a print shop that wants exact pixels, a form that rejects anything over a size limit. The useful question is not "what looks good" but "what does the thing I am feeding this to actually require", because that determines the ratio and the export size before you touch the frame.
What catches people out
Cropping does not reduce file size as much as you expect
Removing half the pixels does not halve the file. Compression cost tracks detail, not area, and the busy part of a photo is usually the part you kept. If the goal was a size limit rather than a shape, crop first and then compress, and check the number rather than assuming.
Exporting to JPEG fills transparency with white
JPEG has no alpha channel. If the source was a PNG with a transparent background, the transparent region becomes solid, and on a coloured page that shows as a white box around your subject. Export PNG or WebP when transparency has to survive.
"Exact size" can upscale, and upscaling invents detail
Asking for an output larger than the crop stretches the pixels you have. Nothing is recovered; edges soften and compression artefacts get bigger along with everything else. If a destination demands more pixels than the source contains, the honest fix is a larger source.