Drop a photo and get it back under 500KB, automatically. Free and private.
500KB turns up on visa applications, bank forms and many web upload fields. It is generous enough that most phone photos survive with no visible loss at all.
Forms almost never explain how to meet their limit. They reject the upload, show a red message and leave you to work it out. This page exists so you can drop the file in and get one that fits.
500KB is half a megabyte, enough for a photograph around 1,500 pixels wide with little visible loss. It is a popular limit for email attachments, website images and application portals.
Phone photos are commonly several megabytes, so reaching 500KB mostly means dropping pixels you could not see on a normal screen anyway.
For a blog post or product listing, 500KB or less keeps a page loading quickly, especially on mobile data. Resizing to the width the page actually shows is the biggest saving.
If you are preparing several images, drop them all in at once and compare the results before you upload.
Drop your image above. It is automatically compressed until it fits under 500KB, then you download it. No settings to work out.
For most photos, yes. The tool reduces quality and dimensions gradually until the target is met, so it takes the least damaging route available. Very small targets on a very detailed photo will visibly soften it — that is unavoidable at any tool.
JPG, PNG and WebP all work. The result is always a JPG, since that is what form uploads expect and what compresses best for photographs.
Rarely. Most photos reach 500KB with quality settings high enough that the difference is invisible.
It is a sensible upper limit. Many images look fine well below it, so check the result at the size it will be shown.
No. The work happens in your own browser, so the file never leaves your device.