Compress images before sending
Compress a single JPG/JPEG, PNG, or WEBP image to your desired file size before sending it anywhere.
Privacy note: your image is processed in your browser and is not uploaded to our backend.
Upload your image, set your target size in KB, and compress it instantly. Choose your file:
Your image will be compressed as close to your chosen size as possible while keeping the best quality achievable at that size.
Why Compress Images Before Sending?
Photos taken on modern smartphones and cameras are often several megabytes each, which makes them slow to upload, slow to download for the recipient, and sometimes too large for the platform you are using. Email providers, messaging apps, and file sharing services all have their own size limits, and exceeding them can cause delivery failures, forced compression that ruins quality, or long upload waits. By compressing your images before sending, you stay in control of the quality and size, avoid platform-imposed downgrades, and ensure your files arrive quickly and reliably.
How This Tool Helps
Instead of guessing at quality sliders or trying multiple export settings, this tool lets you specify the exact file size you want in kilobytes. It automatically adjusts compression quality to hit your target as closely as possible, and if quality reduction alone is not enough, it progressively scales down the image dimensions. The result is a file that meets your size requirement while preserving the best visual quality achievable at that size, all processed locally in your browser with no server upload involved.
Use Cases for Compressing Before Sending
This tool is useful for shrinking photos before emailing them to friends, family, or colleagues, preparing images for WhatsApp or Telegram where large files take long to send and download, reducing file sizes before uploading to Slack or Teams channels with storage limits, compressing product photos before sending to a client for review, and preparing any image for a platform where smaller files mean faster delivery. Because the target size is adjustable, the same tool works for any situation and any size limit you encounter.
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