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Free Image Compressor for JPG, PNG and WebP

Make photos light enough for email, upload forms and websites. Drop them below, pick a level with its size shown, and the smaller copies are made on your device.

Drop or choose your photos

The assistant opens with your files and does the rest.

Choose Files

How to Compress Images Online

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Drop your photos

Drag JPG, PNG or WebP photos onto the box above, or click Choose Files. A batch is fine: every photo gets the same settings and its own smaller file.

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Choose how small

The assistant opens with your photos and shows up to four levels, Recommended, Small file, High quality and Smallest, each with a size worked out for your pictures. Tap one, or ask for a limit such as “under 300 KB” for a single photo.

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Download the smaller photos

Each compressed photo comes back as a new file with a download button. The photos you dropped are left as they were.

Smaller Files, and What It Costs

A photo straight from a phone is often several megabytes, much more than an email, a visa application or a web page needs. Compression lowers the quality the picture is saved at, and at the gentler levels the difference is hard to spot. When that is not enough, the same step can also cut the pixels to 75%, 50% or 25% of the original.

Compressed photos are saved as JPG, or as WebP if you ask, which is usually smaller still. A PNG therefore comes back as JPG or WebP, and JPG turns see-through areas white, so a logo with a transparent background is better made lighter with the image resizer. For a strict limit, ask for a size such as 200 KB: a single photo is compressed step by step until it fits, or you are told how small it could get.

If a photo has already been saved at a low quality, the gentler levels are left out because they could not make it any smaller, and a file that would not shrink is never passed off as compressed. Everything runs in your browser, so private photos stay on your device, and hidden details such as the location are not copied into the new files.

  • Up to four levels, each with a size for your photos
  • A target size for one photo, such as 200 KB
  • JPG or WebP output, with fewer pixels if needed
  • The same settings for a whole batch
  • Free, with no sign-up and no watermark

Image Compressor: Questions and Answers

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How do I get a photo under a size limit?

Put the limit in the request, for example “compress this under 500 KB”. The photo is compressed in steps until it fits, or you are told the smallest size it reached. A target size works on one photo at a time.

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Will the photos look worse?

Compression always gives up some detail. High quality keeps the most and Smallest the least, and the size shown with each level helps you pick the balance.

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Can a compressed PNG stay a PNG?

No. Compression writes JPG or WebP. To make a PNG lighter and keep the format, reduce its size in pixels with the image resizer.

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Do I need to sign up or install anything?

No. It works in a modern web browser on a computer or a phone, with no account to create, nothing to install and no watermark on the result.

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Does it change the file I drop?

No. Every result is saved as a new file, and the file you dropped stays exactly as it was.