Square Crop Image
Crop any photo to an exact square. The frame is locked to 1:1, so you only choose which part stays — ideal for Instagram posts, shop listings and thumbnails. Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded. Need exact pixels instead? Resize or compress.
How to crop an image
Cropping keeps a rectangular (or circular) section of an image and discards the rest — unlike resizing, which scales the whole picture down or up. Use it to remove distracting edges, cut a photo to a specific ratio, or make a circular profile picture.
- Add your images, or drop them in.
- Choose how to crop: Drag & ratio (freeform, square, circle, 16:9…), Exact size (type width, height and position in pixels), Cut from edges (remove pixels or a percentage from each side), or Auto-remove borders (finds plain borders for you).
- Click Apply Crop. The tool moves to the next image automatically — or tick Use this crop for all remaining images to crop a whole batch at once. Then download each file or grab them all as a ZIP.
Drag to the pixel
Move and resize the crop box freely, or lock it to a ratio so it can't be stretched out of shape.
Batch, one at a time
Add a whole folder. The tool queues every image and walks you through cropping each one in turn.
Nothing is uploaded
Cropping happens in your own browser using the Canvas API. Your photos never touch a server.
Other image tools
Cropping cuts pixels away. For the whole-image jobs, use one of these instead:
Can I undo a crop?
Not within this tool once you've downloaded the result — cropping permanently discards the pixels outside the box, unlike resizing, which can be reversed by starting again from the original file.
Click Re-crop on any row before you close the tab to adjust a crop you've already applied; it reopens the original image with your last crop box in place.
Choosing what goes in the square
Cropping, not squashing. A square crop keeps the image's real proportions and cuts away the extra width or height. Resizing straight to a square size would stretch faces and products — crop first, then resize.
From a landscape photo you keep a slice of the middle; slide the frame left or right so the subject isn't cut. From a portrait photo you lose top or bottom — usually keep the top, where heads are.
Shop listings. Marketplaces show square tiles. Cropping every product square yourself, with the item centred and filling most of the frame, stops the site from cutting it awkwardly.
Many photos. Add several images and crop them one by one, or tick Use this crop for all remaining images to apply the same square position to the rest in one click — then download them together as a ZIP.
After cropping, set an exact size: 1080×1080 for Instagram, 1000×1000 or 2000×2000 for shops.
After the square crop
Size, compress or mark your square images:
Frequently asked questions
Will square cropping lower the quality?
No — it only removes the parts outside the square. The pixels that stay are untouched, and the file keeps its original format.
Why does the Circle option produce a square image with rounded corners?
Almost nothing actually stores a circular image file — formats work in rectangles. What the Circle preset does is crop a square and make everything outside the circle transparent, which is why the output is always a PNG regardless of what you uploaded. Any app that displays it in a circular frame (Instagram, Slack, Gmail) will show it as a clean circle; opened directly, you'll see the square canvas with transparent corners.
Does cropping reduce image quality?
No. The pixels you keep are copied exactly as they were — cropping doesn't resample or recompress anything on its own. The one exception is JPG output, which re-applies JPG's own lossy compression when the file is saved, the same as any JPG re-save.
Can I crop many images at once?
You can add many at once, and the tool queues them so you crop each one in turn — cropping is inherently a one-at-a-time decision, since every photo needs its own box position. Once you've cropped everything, download the results together as a ZIP.
Is there a limit on file size or how many files I can crop?
No. Cropping runs inside your browser rather than on a server, so there is no upload, no queue and no cap. Very large images may simply take a moment to load into the editor on a slower device.
Are my images uploaded anywhere?
No. Cropping happens entirely in your browser using the Canvas API. Nothing is transmitted, stored or logged, and you can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it will still work.