How to use
- Drop your file(s) into the box above — or click it to browse.
- Conversion starts immediately — no settings needed.
- Click Download on each finished file — or Download all (.zip) for a batch. Nothing was uploaded at any point.
Why circle-crop before uploading an avatar?
Most platforms display profile pictures in a circle but store whatever rectangle you upload — and each one crops it differently. Upload the same square photo to five services and your face lands off-center in half of them. Cropping the circle yourself, before uploading, is the only way to control exactly what appears: you decide the framing once, and every platform shows the same thing.
A transparent circular PNG is also what design work actually needs: team pages, "about us" sections, slide decks, chat stickers, and printed badges all want a round photo that composites onto any background without a white box around it.
| Property | Output |
|---|---|
| Shape | Perfect circle, diameter = shorter side of the photo |
| Background | Transparent (true alpha, not white) |
| Format | PNG — accepted by every avatar uploader |
| Resolution | Original resolution preserved |
| Inputs | JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, HEIC/HEIF |
| Batch | Multiple photos at once, one circle each |
How this tool crops
The image is center-cropped to a square using its shorter side — a 4032×3024 photo becomes a 3024×3024 circle — then everything outside the circle becomes genuine alpha transparency, and the result is saved as PNG (the format every uploader accepts for transparency). Full resolution is preserved so platforms that zoom into avatars stay sharp.
Input can be anything your browser can decode — JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP — and HEIC straight from an iPhone, which almost no circle-crop tool handles. The HEIC decoding uses the same in-browser WebAssembly pipeline as our HEIC converter.
When NOT to circle-crop
- The platform crops for you and you like its framing — uploading the full rectangle keeps more pixels for the platform to work with.
- Off-center subjects — this tool crops from the center. If your face is at the edge of the frame, crop the photo roughly square around it first (any editor works), then circle-crop here.
- JPG-only uploaders — a circular PNG flattened to JPG grows a white box. If the destination can't take PNG, a circle crop is pointless there.