Circle Crop: crop an image into a circle
Pick a photo, move it inside the circle, and download a round PNG. The corners come out transparent, so the picture sits cleanly on any background. Everything runs on your device.
Drop an image here or click to chooseJPG · PNG · WebP · GIF · AVIF🔒 Cropped on your device — nothing is uploaded
How it works
Your image is decoded by the browser itself — it is never sent to a server.
The crop is a square taken from the photo (its side is the photo's short side, divided by the zoom level). The sliders move that square left, right, up or down within the photo.
The square is drawn into a circular clipping mask and saved as PNG, the common format that keeps transparent corners. Choose a white background instead if the place you're uploading to doesn't handle transparency.
Tips for a good circle crop
- For a face, zoom in until the head fills about two-thirds of the circle and leave a little space above the hair.
- Most sites crop profile photos into a circle themselves — uploading a square version of the same crop gives the same result. A pre-cut round PNG is most useful for slides, documents, stickers and web pages.
- Pick 512 or 1024 px for avatars; use Original when you need the most detail for print.
FAQ
- How do I crop an image into a circle?
- Choose or drop the image above, use Zoom and the two position sliders to frame it, then press Download. You get a square PNG with the circle inside and transparent corners.
- Why is the downloaded file square?
- Image files are always rectangles. The area outside the circle is transparent, so on a web page, slide or document the picture shows up round.
- Can I get a JPG instead of a PNG?
- JPG can't store transparency, so the corners would turn solid. If you need a flat image, pick the white background — the file stays PNG but has white corners, which any site accepts.
- Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
- No. Decoding, cropping and saving all happen in your browser tab. You can switch off your internet connection after the page loads and the tool keeps working.
- It says my iPhone photo can't be opened.
- Some browsers can't read iPhone HEIC photos directly. Convert it to JPG first with the HEIC to JPG converter on this site, then crop the JPG.