About ImageToolForge
ImageToolForge was built on a simple frustration: almost every "free online image tool" asks you to upload your photos to somebody else's server before anything happens. That upload is slow, it costs you bandwidth, and it means your private pictures — family albums, ID scans, client artwork, screenshots of work documents — sit on hardware you don't control. We believe a tool as simple as resizing a JPEG shouldn't require that kind of trust.
So we built things differently. Every tool on this site runs entirely inside your browser. When you compress an image to a target size or strip its metadata, your file is decoded and re-encoded locally using WebAssembly-powered encoders, the same technology that powers serious desktop applications. Your files never leave your device — not to our servers, not to third parties, nowhere. You can even disconnect from the internet after the page loads and every feature will keep working. This is not a marketing slogan; it is the architecture of the site itself.
What you'll find here
- Image Compressor — reduce JPEG, PNG and WebP files to an exact target size (100 KB, 200 KB, 500 KB, 1 MB or a custom limit), with batch processing and side-by-side before/after previews.
- Image Converter(coming soon) — quick conversion between JPG, PNG and WebP with sensible quality defaults.
- EXIF Cleaner(coming soon) — remove GPS coordinates, camera details and all other hidden metadata from photos before you share them.
The core tools are and always will be free, without accounts, watermarks or artificial daily limits. We keep the lights on with unobtrusive advertising, never by selling your data — there is simply no data to sell, because we never receive your files in the first place.
Contact
Questions, bug reports, or ideas for new tools? Email us at [email protected] and we'll do our best to reply within a couple of business days.