Circle Crop Image
Crop a photo into a circle, add a ring, download at any size.
How it works
How to crop an image into a circle?
Open the photo
Drag in a JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF or AVIF, pick one, or paste a screenshot straight from the clipboard. It is read off your device — nothing is uploaded, so there is no size cap and no queue.
Put the circle where it belongs
Drag the picture under the round window and scroll or pinch to zoom. Turn it if the horizon is off, or fit the whole photo inside the circle if nothing may be cut.
Set the edge
Leave the corners transparent, fill them with a colour, or let a blurred copy of the photo sit behind. Add a ring, a little padding, or soften the edge so it blends.
Download it
Choose the size the picture is for — 512 px covers almost everything — and save a PNG, WebP or JPG. Nothing is stamped in a corner and nothing is locked behind an account.
Features
What this circle cropper does
A real transparent PNG
Empty corners, not white ones — so the circle sits cleanly on any background.
Drag, zoom, pinch
Move and zoom the photo under the circle with mouse, wheel, or two fingers.
Turn it as far as you like
Free rotation, plus 90° in one press for a sideways shot.
Fit the whole photo
One press puts the entire picture inside the circle instead of cropping it.
A ring, in any colour
A border around the disc — thick or thin, any colour, scales with the size.
Soft edge and a backdrop
Fade the edge, or fill the corners with a colour or a blurred copy of the photo.
The exact pixel size
Presets from 128 to 1080, or type any square size — drawn from the source, not the preview.
PNG, WebP or JPG
PNG and WebP keep transparency; file size is shown before you save.
Nothing is uploaded
Everything runs in your browser. The photo never leaves your device.
Where it fits
What people cut a circle for
A profile picture that is already round
Most networks crop an avatar to a circle themselves — badly, from the middle. Cropping it yourself is how the face ends up centred instead of the chin.
A logo or a badge
A round mark on a transparent background drops onto a slide, a letterhead or a dark site without the white square that gives it away.
Stickers and cut-outs
A soft edge and a white ring is the whole sticker look. Save it as a PNG and it keeps working wherever it is pasted.
Team photos in a deck or a doc
A column of circular headshots all cropped to the same size and the same ring reads as one set, which a pile of rectangles never does.
Sizes
The right size for a round profile picture
Every network stores an avatar at its own size and displays it much smaller than that. Uploading a 4000 px photo gains nothing — it is downsampled the moment it arrives — but uploading a 100 px one is what makes a profile look soft next to everyone else’s. 512 × 512 clears everything below bar YouTube, which is why it is the size this tool starts on — for a YouTube channel picture, type 800 instead.
| Where | Stored at | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| 320 × 320 | Shown at about 110 px in the app | |
| 320 × 320 | Shown at 170 px on desktop, 128 px on mobile | |
| X (Twitter) | 400 × 400 | Anything larger is downscaled on upload |
| 400 × 400 | Accepts much larger, stores around this | |
| 500 × 500 | Compressed hard, so start sharp | |
| Discord | 512 × 512 | 128 px is the floor; 512 is what to give it |
| YouTube | 800 × 800 | The only one here above 512; shown at 98 px next to a video |
| Slack, Telegram | 512 × 512 | Both display it as a circle |
Platforms change these without announcing it. Treat the table as the shape of the problem rather than a specification — and when in doubt, 512 px square.
Questions