Shrink

Make an image smaller

Too big to email or upload? Pick a size and get it back in a second.

Free forever. No account, no payment, no trial, no watermark.

How small do you need it?

or drop them here — you can paste one too

Just start using it. Your images stay on your device.

Compress a photo without uploading it anywhere

Most "free" image compressors ask you to upload your photo to a company's server, then put a size cap, a queue, or a paywall in front of the download. Shrink does the whole job in your browser. Your picture is decoded, resized and re-encoded by your own device, and the smaller file appears immediately. There is no upload, no account, and no limit on how many you do.

How to use it

What it does to your image

Shrink reduces the file size two ways: it lowers the JPEG quality a little, and, when that is not enough on its own, it reduces the pixel dimensions. It never adds a watermark, never crops, and never changes the colours. Photos with transparent backgrounds are saved as WebP so the transparency survives; everything else is saved as a JPEG, which is what almost every form and email client expects.

If a file is already about as small as it can get, Shrink says so and hands you back the original rather than making it worse.

Why is this free?

Because it costs me nothing to run. There is no server doing the work, so there is no bill that grows with the number of people using it. I build software for a living, and this is a straightforward way to show what that looks like. If you need something simple built for your business, email me.