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Crop Image
Cut a picture down to the part you want
Circle Crop Image
LiveDrag the circle over the face, pick a size, and download a round picture with the corners cut away. It runs entirely in your browser, so the photo is never uploaded, there is no file size limit, and nothing of yours is ever on our server. PNG keeps the corners genuinely transparent, which is the part most circle croppers quietly get wrong.
Cropped in your browser. The photo never leaves this page. Privacy
What it does
- Transparent corners in PNG or WebP, not a white square
- Save at 1024, 512, 256 or 128 px, or at the size you selected
- Nothing is uploaded, so there is no file size limit
Your files
It never leaves your device.
This one runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type or drop here is sent to us, so there is nothing on our server to keep, and nothing to delete. It works offline once the page has loaded.
Frequently asked questions
How do I crop a picture into a circle?
Drop the photo in and a circle appears over the middle of it, as large as the picture allows. Drag it to sit over the face, drag any of the four corner handles to change its size, or type an exact figure into the box if you know what you need. The arrow keys nudge it two pixels at a time and Shift with an arrow moves it twenty, which is easier than a mouse for the last small adjustment. Then choose a format and press Crop to circle. The whole thing happens on your own device, so there is no upload, no queue and no waiting.
Why is the file I downloaded still square?
Because no image format is circular. A PNG, a JPG and a WebP are all rectangles of pixels, and the only way to store a circle is to keep a square and make the four corners transparent. That is what this page does, and the preview is deliberately shown on a checkerboard so you can see the corners really are see-through rather than white. Anywhere that respects transparency, such as a website, a document or a video editor, shows you a circle. Anywhere that does not, and JPG is the common case, fills those corners in.
Is my photo uploaded to your server?
No. Your browser reads the file straight off your disk, draws the circle on a canvas, and hands you the result out of its own memory. The picture is never sent to us, which is why this page has no file size limit while our server-side image tools stop at 50 MB, and why there is no hour-long deletion window to wait out: there is nothing on our server to delete. The one thing that does leave the page is an anonymous counter, a single request carrying the tool name and nothing else, so the usage figure on this page stays honest. It contains no part of your photo.
Can I get a circle exactly 512 pixels across?
Yes, as long as the area you selected is at least 512 pixels across in the original photo. If it is smaller, the file is saved at the size you actually selected instead of being blown up, and the page tells you which figure it used. Enlarging here would invent detail that was never in the photograph and quietly hand you a blurrier picture under a larger number. If you genuinely need the bigger figure, crop the circle here and then scale it up with Resize Image, where enlarging is the thing you are asking for rather than something that happened to you.
Do I need this for a profile picture at all?
Often not, and it is worth knowing before you spend time on it. Most social networks and chat apps display any picture you give them inside a circular frame of their own, so a plain square photo already looks round once it is uploaded. Cropping it here first is worth doing when you want to control exactly what the circle contains rather than letting an automatic centre crop decide, when you need the round image somewhere that will not do the cropping for you, such as a slide, a document or a website, or when you want a transparent PNG to place over a background.
What happens to transparency, a JPG, or an animated GIF?
PNG and WebP keep the corners transparent, and PNG is the default here for that reason. JPG has no way to store transparency at all, so when you pick it the corners are filled with white or black, whichever you choose, rather than turning an unexpected colour. An animated GIF loses its animation: a browser hands a canvas the first frame only, so what comes back is a still picture of that frame. An iPhone HEIC cannot be opened by any browser on any platform, so the page says so instead of spinning; run it through HEIC to JPG first and come back with the result.