Image Tools

Image workflows without the upload step

Phone photos are the dominant image format of our era and they're constantly slightly wrong for whatever you need to do with them. They're HEIC when the recipient wants JPG. They're 4032×3024 when you need a 1200-pixel-wide thumbnail. They have GPS coordinates embedded that you'd rather strip before posting. They're 8 MB when the upload form caps at 5. Or you want to remove the background, add a watermark, rotate the one page that came out sideways. Each of these is a five-second operation in the right tool — the friction is finding a tool that doesn't require uploading the photo to someone else's server first.

The image tools here run entirely in your browser. The compression and conversion operations use the browser's native Canvas API and image codecs (JPG, PNG, WebP are all built in). HEIC conversion uses heic-to, a WebAssembly port of libheif. EXIF parsing uses exifr (about 15 KB). Background removal uses @imgly/background-removal, which runs a neural network locally via ONNX Runtime Web. QR code reading uses jsQR on either a still image or a live camera feed via getUserMedia. SVG optimization uses svgo. Each library is a lazy chunk that loads only when you actually use the tool — the homepage and the other tool pages don't pay the cost.

For workflows that span multiple operations (HEIC → resize → compress → strip EXIF), run each tool in sequence — the output of one feeds the input of the next. We chose to keep tools focused rather than building one mega-tool with every option exposed at once. Specific guides on common image workflows live in the guides section: how to convert HEIC on Windows, how to strip EXIF before sharing, how to compress images for the web without losing quality, and more.