Make an image under 500 KB
At 500 KB, photos up to about 6 megapixels still keep every pixel. The tool lowers the quality first and only makes the picture smaller once quality has reached 40.
Drop your images here
or browse your files
JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP or HEIC. As many as you like, no sign-up.
Picked for each image: the highest quality that fits under 500 KB.
Nothing is uploaded. Location, camera details and other hidden data are removed from every file.
- No ads
- No sign-up
- No watermark
- No daily limit
- Nothing uploaded
Several steps, or a whole batch? Chain this with other tools in a Workflow and run them in one go.
Where 500 KB starts to bite
In our test the 6-megapixel waterfall photo, 2.95 MB, fit at full size with quality 54, and a 4.3-megapixel photo kept quality 79. Only the 18-megapixel bridge photo had to shrink: from 5388 to 4019 pixels wide, about 56% of its pixels, at quality 43.
Photos that were already small
A 1408 by 768 photo of 806 KB came back at 271 KB, full size and quality 92, the highest this tool uses. When the limit doesn’t force anything, the file can still get smaller, because it is saved again and without its hidden data.
Big batches take a while
Each image is saved several times to find the best quality that fits. The 18-megapixel photo took about 10 seconds on a fast laptop; the 4 and 6-megapixel photos took 3 to 4 seconds each.
Your files stay with you
The images are processed on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and you don’t need an account. Close the tab and they’re gone.
From our tests
- Compress an image to 100 KB, and what you give up
How many pixels survive 50 KB, 100 KB and 1 MB limits, from six real images.
- How to compress images for a website
Pixel counts versus bytes on a real photo, plus the screenshots that got bigger.
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