How do I crop an image into a circle?

Drop your image, drag the circular overlay over the part you want to keep, then download. The circle can be moved and resized, and the file you get back matches the overlay exactly. Nothing is installed and nothing is uploaded.

Will the background really be transparent?

Yes, when you export PNG or WebP. Every pixel outside the circle is written with an alpha value of zero, which means fully clear rather than white. Drop the result onto a dark slide or a colored page and you will see the background straight through the corners.

Can I crop a JPG into a circle?

You can crop it, but the JPG format has no transparency channel, so the corners cannot be clear. When you pick JPG we fill the area outside the circle with a background color you choose and tell you before you download. If you want clear corners, export PNG instead.

Does the image lose quality?

The pixels inside the circle are copied at their original resolution, so a round crop on its own costs you nothing. Quality only changes if you set an output diameter smaller than your selection, which resamples, or export as JPG, which re-encodes.

Can I crop several images at once?

Yes. Drop up to 50 files, set the circle once, and the same selection is applied to every image in the queue. One file downloads on its own; a batch comes down as a ZIP with each round PNG inside.

What size should a circular profile picture be?

512 px covers Slack, Discord and LinkedIn comfortably, and 128 px is enough for small inline avatars. When in doubt, export the largest diameter your original supports and let the platform scale it down — that always looks better than upscaling here.

Can I crop an oval instead of a circle?

Switch the shape from Circle to Ellipse and the ratio unlocks, so you can pull a tall or wide oval. The mask follows whatever box you draw, and the corners outside the oval are made transparent the same way.

Are my photos uploaded anywhere?

No. The crop runs on your own device using the browser's Canvas API, so the image data never leaves the page. Once the page has loaded you can switch the network off entirely and the tool still works.

Crop an image to a circle — free, transparent PNG, in your browser

Drop a photo, drag the circle where you want it, download a round PNG with a see-through background. Free, no signup.

Drop an image to crop it round

JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, GIF, BMP, TIFF · up to 50 files · 100 MB each

FreeInstantNo signup

A round image is a square file with the corners cut away

Every image file is a rectangle. A round image is that rectangle with its corners made transparent, so whatever sits behind it shows through. That is why the file you download here is a PNG — it is the format that can hold those see-through corners. Drop a photo, drag the circle over the part you want to keep, and the corners disappear.

Position matters more than people expect. Most round-crop tools cut from the dead center of the photo, which pushes a face off to one side whenever the subject is not perfectly middled. Here the circle is yours to move. Drag it, pull a handle to resize it, and the exported file matches the overlay you saw.

If the whole picture has to stay visible, switch from Crop to Fit. Crop cuts the image down to the circle. Fit scales the entire image until it sits inside the circle, then fills the leftover space with a color you choose or leaves it clear. Logos and wordmarks usually want Fit; photos of people usually want Crop.

Circle or ellipse

Lock to a perfect circle, or unlock the ratio and pull an oval. Same view, no mode switch.

Real transparency

PNG and WebP export with alpha, so the corners are genuinely clear — not white, not a checkerboard baked into the file.

Fifty at once

Drop a folder of headshots, set the circle once, and download the whole set as a ZIP.

Where a round image helps

Profile pictures

Slack, Discord, LinkedIn and Teams all display avatars in a circle. Crop it yourself and you control what gets cut.

Round logos

A circular mark for a site header, an app tile or the source art for a favicon. Use Fit so none of the logo is sliced off.

Team headshots

An About page grid reads far cleaner when every portrait is the same circle. Set the crop once and run the whole folder.

Stickers and badges

A round PNG with clear corners sits on any colored background without a white box around it.

Podcast and playlist art

Circular players crop your square artwork anyway. Doing it here shows you exactly what survives.

Product thumbnails

Round thumbnails on a category page give a softer grid than hard-edged squares, especially over a tinted section.

Built for round images specifically

The circle goes where you put it — no forced center crop
Avatar diameters ready to pick: 128, 256, 512 and 1024 px
HEIC straight off an iPhone, files up to 100 MB
Pixels inside the circle keep their original resolution

How to crop a picture into a circle

Drop your image
One file or fifty. JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC and more open here, and nothing is sent to a server.
Move the circle
Drag it over the part you want to keep and pull a handle to resize. Switch to Ellipse if you want an oval.
Download the PNG
Pick a diameter if you need an exact size, then save. Batches come down as a ZIP.

Five things worth knowing

Tip 1:
Start with an image at least as wide as the diameter you need. Blowing a 200 px selection up to 512 px only adds softness.
Tip 2:
Keep the export as PNG. Saving as JPG replaces the clear corners with a solid color, because JPG cannot store transparency at all.
Tip 3:
Some apps ignore transparency anyway — Instagram and WhatsApp render clear pixels as white. For those, pick a white background and export JPG for a smaller file.
Tip 4:
For a headshot, leave a little room above the head. A circle cuts more from the corners than the rectangular preview suggests.
Tip 5:
Cropping a logo? Use Fit rather than Crop so no part of the mark gets sliced away.

Circle crop questions

Image Cropper

Straight rectangular crop with aspect-ratio presets and exact pixel control.

Photo Resizer

Resize a photo to exact dimensions before or after you crop it round.

Image Resizer

The full resize hub — pixels, percentages, presets and batch output.

PNG to WebP

Turn your round PNG into a smaller WebP that keeps the transparent corners.

Image Converter

Move between JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC and more in one pass.

Round crop, ready when you are

Drop an image and drag the circle. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.

Crop an image to a circle