Every image tool below runs entirely inside your browser tab — no upload, no account, no watermark, and no daily conversion limit. That’s true even for the AI-powered tools (background removal, upscaling, colorization), which run a real machine-learning model directly on your device rather than sending your photo to a cloud API. This guide organizes all 42 image tools by what you’re actually trying to do.
Photos are among the most personal files most people work with — vacation photos, ID documents, screenshots of private conversations — so the privacy angle here matters as much as the convenience. Every one of these tools was built on the same core principle: the actual pixel processing happens using your browser’s own Canvas API or a downloaded-once AI model, never a remote server, so there’s genuinely nothing to upload in the first place.
Converting between image formats
This is the most-searched category of image tool, and this site covers the full conversion matrix between the formats people actually run into:
- JPG ↔ PNG: JPG to PNG, PNG to JPG
- JPG/PNG ↔ WebP: JPG to WebP, WebP to JPG, PNG to WebP, WebP to PNG
- HEIC (iPhone photos): HEIC to JPG, HEIC to PNG
- AVIF (the newest widely-supported format): AVIF to JPG, PNG to AVIF
- Legacy/scanner formats: BMP to JPG, TIFF to JPG
- Icons: PNG to ICO (multi-size favicon container), ICO to PNG (extract images back out)
- Animated: Convert WebP to GIF
If you’re not sure which target format to pick: JPG is smallest for photos with no transparency, PNG is lossless and supports transparency, and WebP usually beats both at the same visual quality — but check what the destination (a website, an app, a print shop) actually accepts before converting. AVIF is newer still and typically compresses even smaller than WebP at equivalent quality, though it’s worth double-checking that your target platform actually supports it before relying on it exclusively.
Compressing, resizing and upscaling
File size matters for uploads, emails, and page-load speed, while pixel dimensions matter for display quality — these three tools cover both directions, shrinking a file down or intelligently enlarging it back up.
- Compress Images shrinks JPG/PNG/WebP file size via re-encoding, with a guarantee the output is never larger than your original.
- Resize Images changes actual pixel dimensions (percentage or exact-width presets, including common social-media and passport-photo sizes), always preserving aspect ratio.
- AI Image Upscaler does the opposite of both — it uses a real super-resolution AI model to intelligently enlarge a small or low-resolution photo up to 4x, filling in detail rather than just stretching pixels.
Cropping, rotating and basic edits
The everyday fixes — a sideways photo, an off-center crop, a mirrored selfie — are handled by this group without needing a full photo editor.
- Crop Images center-crops to a fixed aspect ratio (1:1, 4:3, 16:9, 9:16).
- Crop Image into a Circle produces a circular or rounded-square cutout with a transparent background, ideal for profile pictures.
- Rotate Image and Flip / Mirror Image fix sideways/upside-down photos or mirror a backwards front-camera selfie.
- Split Image for Instagram Grid slices one photo into a 3x1/3x2/3x3 (or custom) grid of tiles, numbered in the correct posting order for a seamless Instagram profile grid.
- Passport Photo Maker crops to official ID/passport dimensions with alignment guides and a printable sheet of multiple copies.
Color, effects and AI transformations
- Adjust Image Brightness & Color gives you live brightness/contrast/saturation/exposure/temperature sliders with a before/after compare.
- Convert Photo to Black and White and Invert Image Colors apply classic pixel-level color filters (grayscale/sepia, or a full negative effect).
- Convert Photo to Pencil Sketch turns a photo into a hand-drawn-style sketch or color-pencil effect using a real image-processing pipeline (grayscale, blur, and a dodge blend).
- AI Photo Colorizer adds plausible color to a black-and-white photo using a real AI colorization model.
- Remove Background from Image cuts a subject out from its background automatically, producing a transparent PNG, using an on-device AI segmentation model.
- Blur Part of an Image redacts faces, license plates or other private details with a blur or pixelate effect over a chosen region.
- Add Watermark to Photos stamps repeatable text (© COPYRIGHT, SAMPLE, etc.) across an image at a chosen position and opacity.
- Meme Generator adds classic top/bottom Impact-style captions to a photo, with no watermark added by the tool itself.
Privacy and metadata
- EXIF Metadata Viewer shows you everything embedded in a photo — camera model, exposure settings, and (importantly) GPS location if present.
- Remove EXIF Data from Photos strips all of that metadata out before you share a photo publicly.
Text extraction, drawing and web-asset tools
- Extract Text from Image (OCR) reads printed or handwritten text out of a photo and returns it as an editable text file, using on-device OCR — no cloud service involved.
- Signature Generator lets you draw (or type, in a script font) a signature and download it as a transparent PNG.
- Pixel Art Maker and Annotate Screenshot are small creative/utility drawing tools — a grid-based pixel-art canvas, and a multi-tool screenshot annotator (arrows, boxes, blur redaction, step numbers).
- Favicon Generator builds a complete favicon package (favicon.ico, standalone PNGs, apple-touch-icon, manifest) from one source image.
- SVG Optimizer minifies an SVG file’s markup for a smaller, cleaner file.
- Convert TTF to WOFF2 converts a font file for smaller, faster web delivery, with a ready-to-paste
@font-faceCSS snippet.
Which tool should I use?
| I want to… | Use this tool |
|---|---|
| Convert a photo between JPG, PNG, WebP or AVIF | See the format-conversion matrix above |
| Convert an iPhone HEIC photo | HEIC to JPG or HEIC to PNG |
| Shrink a photo’s file size | Compress Images |
| Change a photo’s pixel dimensions | Resize Images |
| Enlarge a small/blurry photo with AI | AI Image Upscaler |
| Remove the background from a photo | Remove Background from Image |
| Add plausible color to a black-and-white photo | AI Photo Colorizer |
| Crop a photo for a profile picture | Crop Image into a Circle |
| Turn a photo into a pencil sketch | Convert Photo to Pencil Sketch |
| Blur a face or license plate for privacy | Blur Part of an Image |
| Check or remove a photo’s hidden GPS/metadata | EXIF Metadata Viewer / Remove EXIF Data |
| Read text out of a screenshot or scanned photo | Extract Text from Image (OCR) |
| Add a text watermark to protect a photo | Add Watermark to Photos |
| Split a photo into a 3x3 Instagram grid | Split Image for Instagram Grid |
| Build a favicon set for a website | Favicon Generator |
| Draw a signature to embed elsewhere | Signature Generator |
Every step above happens in your browser, on your own device — no photo you touch here is ever uploaded. With 42 tools spanning simple format conversion through genuine AI-powered editing, most everyday photo tasks are covered without ever needing to install a desktop editor or sign up for a cloud photo service.
