DIGITAL UTILITY KIT

Free Online Image Tools

Practical image utilities for everyday web, email and sharing tasks. Most image processing happens locally in your browser so your files do not need to be uploaded to our server.

Available tools

11 free tools in this category.

Guides and explanations

Useful background for getting better results from these tools.

How to Reduce Image File Size Without Ruining Quality

Why the dimensions matter more than the quality slider, which format suits which picture, and how to tell when you have stopped gaining anything.

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JPG vs PNG vs WebP: Which Image Format Should You Use?

The real difference is what each format was built to compress. Once you know that, the choice makes itself for photos, screenshots, logos and the web.

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How to Convert HEIC to JPG Without Uploading Your Photos

Why an iPhone photo will not open on someone else's computer, how to convert it on your own device, and what the conversion costs you.

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Why Did My Compressed Image Come Back Bigger?

Compression tools sometimes return a file larger than the one you gave them. Here is why it happens, why PNG is the usual culprit, and what to do instead.

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Does Compressing an Image Lose Quality?

What lossy and lossless compression actually do to a picture, how much quality you can give up before anyone notices, and which choices are irreversible.

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How to Get an Image Under 2 MB (or 1 MB, or 500 KB)

A reliable order of operations for hitting a hard upload limit on a form, application or portal without turning your photo to mush.

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How to Remove Location Data From a Photo

What EXIF metadata records about you, when it actually leaks, and a straightforward way to strip it from an image without installing anything.

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What Happens to Transparency When You Convert PNG to JPG

Why a transparent logo turns into a white or black rectangle, how to tell in advance, and which formats keep an alpha channel.

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How to Compress Photos Without Uploading Them

Shrinking images on your own device, why compressing does not reliably strip the location data inside them, and what to do when the output comes back bigger.

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Fast, free and privacy-focused

Digital Utility Kit is built around small tools that do one job well. Where browser technology allows it, processing happens locally on your device. No account is required to use these tools.