Resize to 1080x10801:1
1080x1080 px, 1:1. The square most apps want: Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and product listings.
Trims the edges that do not fit, so nothing is squashed.
Faces near the top of a tall photo? Pick Top. Check the preview after it runs.
JPEG for photos. PNG for logos, text and transparency.
Your photo is never uploaded. The crop and the resize happen inside this browser tab, so nothing is sent to a server, nothing is stored, and nothing is shared. Free, unlimited, no signup, no watermark.
Make any image square, by cropping or by padding
A 1:1 image is the common currency of profile pictures, product listings, app icons and feed posts, and almost no camera produces one. There are exactly two honest ways to get there: crop the long sides off, or pad the short sides out. Squashing the picture to fit is the third way and the one this tool refuses to do, because a stretched face is worse than a cropped one.
Crop to fill keeps the centre (or the top, bottom, left or right, your choice) and trims the rest. Pad to fit keeps everything and adds margins in white, black or, for PNG and WebP, transparent. Both produce exactly the side length you pick, from the presets or a number you type.
| Use | Pixels | Ratio | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1080x1080 | 1080x1080 | 1:1 | The square most apps want: Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and product listings. |
| 500x500 | 500x500 | 1:1 | Small avatars and forum profile pictures. |
| 800x800 | 800x800 | 1:1 | Marketplace thumbnails; Etsy and Amazon both accept this as a minimum. |
| 2048x2048 | 2048x2048 | 1:1 | A large master for print-on-demand and app icons that get downscaled later. |
How to crop or pad an image to a square
- Drop the images above, one or a batch of up to 20.
- Pick a side length: 1080 for social and listings, 500 for small avatars, 2048 for a master, or Custom and type any value from 64 to 4096.
- Choose Crop to fill and a crop position to trim, or Pad to fit and a padding colour to keep everything. Transparent padding needs PNG or WebP.
- Download, or Download ZIP for the batch. Every output is exactly the square you asked for; the row shows the real pixel size next to the file size.
Logos, product photos, and small sources
For a wide logo, Pad to fit with Transparent on PNG is the right move: the logo is scaled to fit inside the square at its full width and the margins carry no colour, so the result drops into an app store listing, a favicon generator or a dark-mode profile without a white box around it. For product photos on a white sweep, Pad to fit with White is indistinguishable from the original background and satisfies marketplaces that insist on a square frame.
When the source is smaller than the square you asked for, the image is enlarged and the row flags it. Plain enlargement is soft; the AI image upscaler rebuilds detail first and also runs on your device, so upscale, then square it here.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I make an image square without cropping it?
- Switch to Pad to fit. The whole picture is scaled to fit inside the square and the leftover space is filled with white, black, or nothing at all if you choose PNG or WebP with Transparent. Nothing is trimmed, and the output is still exactly the side length you picked.
- What side length should I choose?
- Match the destination. 1080x1080 is the square Instagram, Facebook and most listing sites want; 500x500 suits small avatars; 800x800 clears the minimums on Etsy and Amazon product images; 2048x2048 is a large master that survives later downsizing. For anything else, pick Custom and type a number from 64 to 4096.
- Does cropping to a square reduce quality?
- Cropping removes pixels from the edges and changes nothing in the pixels that remain. What reduces quality is enlarging: if the source's short side is smaller than the square you asked for, the image has to be scaled up and the row will say so. Pick a side length at or below the short side of the source to avoid that, or upscale first.
- Can I keep transparency?
- Yes, with PNG or WebP output and the Transparent padding option. This is the way to turn a rectangular logo into a square icon with see-through margins for app stores, favicons and profile avatars that support transparency. JPEG has no alpha channel, so it falls back to a white matte.
- Can I square a whole batch at once?
- Drop up to 20 images and they all get the same side length, crop position and padding. Download ZIP gives you one archive with the filenames kept, which is how a product catalogue or a set of team headshots gets made uniform in one pass.
- Are the images uploaded?
- No. Nothing is uploaded: the crop, the padding and the encode all run in your browser. Product photos, headshots and logos never leave your device, and there is no account or watermark.