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Square images are everywhere: profile pictures, product listings, app icons, podcast covers, album art and many social posts. Most photos, though, come out of a phone or camera as rectangles. Let a website crop them for you and it usually just takes the middle, which can slice through a face, a product or a logo.
This cropper opens with a locked 1:1 square frame, so you decide which part of the photo becomes the square. Move it, resize it, rotate the photo if needed, and download the result at full resolution as PNG, JPG or WebP. The whole process runs in your browser; the photo is never uploaded.
Before
Portrait photo
3000 × 4000
A 3:4 phone photo that apps would crop to a square for you.
After
Square crop
2400 × 2400
The default centred frame; drag the handles out for up to 3000 × 3000.
Measured with a 3000 × 4000 test photo. The frame starts at 80% of the shorter side; the output is cut from the original pixels, so it is never upscaled or blurred.
Drop a JPG, PNG or WebP into the editor. A centred square frame appears straight away.
Drag inside the square to move it and drag the corner handles to resize it. It stays square and inside the photo.
Use the rotate, flip and zoom controls under the preview to straighten or mirror the photo.
Choose PNG, JPG or WebP, click Apply Crop Selection and download the square image.
| Use | Common size (px) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Instagram square post | 1080 × 1080 | Larger squares are scaled down by Instagram |
| Profile pictures (most sites) | 400 × 400 or larger | Often shown as a circle |
| WhatsApp / Telegram DP | 500 × 500 or larger | Centre the face |
| Online shop product photo | 1000 × 1000 to 2000 × 2000 | Allows zoom on product pages |
| App or podcast artwork | 3000 × 3000 | Needs a large source photo |
When the photo opens, a centred square covering 80% of the shorter side appears. Drag inside it to move it, or drag a corner handle to make it bigger or smaller; it always stays square. The frame is kept inside the photo, so you can never end up with empty or transparent strips in the result, even if you drag past the edge.
When you click Apply Crop Selection, the square is converted to whole pixels of the original image. In our tests a 3000 × 4000 portrait gave a 2400 × 2400 square with the default frame, and a 4000 × 3000 landscape gave an exact square of over 2400 pixels per side. Drag the handles to the edges for the largest possible square, equal to the shorter side of the photo.
Where you place the square matters more than its size.
There are two ways to turn a rectangle into a square. Cropping, as here, removes the parts outside the square. The subject fills the image, which is ideal for faces and products. Padding keeps the entire photo and adds space around it in a colour or a blurred copy of the photo. That is the better choice for group photos, landscapes and artwork where nothing may be lost. For padding, use Instagram No Crop.
Under the preview you can rotate the photo in 90° steps, flip it horizontally or vertically and zoom in. Rotating fixes photos that open sideways; flipping is handy for selfies that come out mirrored. The crop is applied to the transformed photo at full resolution, so you do not need a separate editor for these basic fixes.
Pick PNG for graphics, screenshots and anything with sharp edges or transparency, JPG for photos when you want a smaller file, and WebP for websites that support it. The crop itself never lowers quality; only JPG and WebP compression does, and only slightly at the default settings. If a form needs a small file, run the square through the 100KB compressor afterwards.
The cropper decides the shape; the Image Resizer decides the exact pixel size. Crop to a square first, then resize it to 1080 × 1080 for Instagram, 400 × 400 for a profile picture or 3000 × 3000 for podcast artwork. Because the image is already square, the resize does not need to crop or pad anything.
Your photo is cropped by your own browser using the canvas, so it is not uploaded, stored or shared. There is no account, no watermark and no limit on how many photos you crop. It works the same on a phone, where you can move and resize the frame with your finger.
The further a photo is from square, the more a square crop removes. A 16:9 video frame keeps only a little over half its width, and a phone panorama keeps a small slice. That is fine when the subject is compact, such as a person or a product, but for wide scenes you will lose most of the picture. Move the square to the most important part, or consider keeping the whole scene with a blurred or white background using Instagram No Crop. For panoramas that should be seen in full on Instagram, the carousel splitter cuts them into several square or 4:5 slides instead.
Frame your face exactly instead of letting each site guess.
Give every product photo the same square shape for a tidy catalogue.
Create square posts that look the way you intended in the grid.
Prepare square album, podcast or playlist covers from a larger photo.
Open the photo above. The 1:1 frame is already selected, so just move and resize the square over the part you want, click Apply Crop Selection and download.
Yes. The crop is converted to whole pixels of the original image with equal width and height, for example 2400 × 2400 from a 3000 × 4000 photo.
No. The square is cut from the original pixels at full resolution; nothing is upscaled. Choose PNG for no compression at all, or JPG/WebP for smaller files.
A square as large as the shorter side of your photo. Drag the frame handles outward until they reach the edges; the frame cannot go past the image.
Cropping always removes part of the photo. To keep the whole photo and add a border or blurred background instead, use Instagram No Crop or the Square Image Padder.
Yes. You can drag the frame and its handles with your finger, and the page does not scroll while you are moving the frame.
Yes. The Aspect Preset menu also has 4:5, 9:16, 16:9, passport and custom ratios, plus free cropping. For a round crop, use Circle Crop Image.
No. Cropping happens on a canvas in your browser. Your photo never leaves your device.
Crop to square here, then resize the result to 1080 × 1080 with the Image Resizer, or use the Instagram resizer. Instagram also scales larger squares down itself.
This editor crops one photo at a time so you can frame each one by hand, which matters for faces and products. The frame is centred automatically on each new photo.