Circle Crop
Circle Crop turns a photo into a perfect circle — ideal for profile pictures, avatars and logos. It takes the centred square of your image and masks it to a circle, saving a square transparent PNG. It all happens in your browser, so your photo is never uploaded.
Your image
The work runs in this tab. Nothing is sent anywhere, and the download is generated locally.
Output —Load an image
How to use Circle Crop
- 01Upload
Upload a photo
Drop an image in; the circular preview shows how it will crop.
- 02Customize
Check the framing
The centre of your image is used, so make sure the subject is roughly centred.
- 03Process
Download
Export to save the circular crop as a transparent PNG.
What a circle crop actually produces
The image is still a rectangle — a square one, with the corners made transparent. Nothing is truly circular in a raster file; the circle is an alpha channel.
Transparency needs a format that supports it. Export as JPG and the transparent corners become solid white, which is the single most common surprise with this tool.
Where circle crops are used
- Profile pictures1:1
Most platforms mask avatars to a circle themselves. Pre-cropping matters when the platform does not, or when you need the file elsewhere too.
- Team pages1:1
A consistent circular crop reads as deliberate across a row of headshots taken in different conditions.
- Overlays and stickers1:1
A circular badge composited over other artwork, where the square corners would be visible.
What you remove does not come back
Everything outside the circle is discarded. Because the result carries transparency, flattening it later onto a coloured background is fine, but the cropped corners cannot be brought back.
Export to a new file and keep the source. Every tool here works from the file you drop in and writes a fresh one, so the original on your device is untouched — but only if you do not overwrite it yourself afterwards.
Supported formats
- JPG
- PNG
- WebP
- GIF
- BMP
- Maximum file size —
- bounded by your device's memory
- Processed by —
- your browser's Canvas engine
Your file, and what the page does
Your file is never uploaded. Circle Crop reads it into this browser tab and processes it with your browser's own Canvas engine on your own device. There is no upload endpoint in the application and no copy on any server — closing the tab discards it.
Because the result is rebuilt from pixels, the source file's EXIF metadata does not survive into it. Camera model, timestamp and any GPS coordinates recorded by your phone are simply not present in the output — a side effect of how canvas encoding works, and a useful one before posting a photo publicly.
What the page does send or fetch
- Ads on the page
- The site is funded by advertising, so the page loads Google AdSense. That carries the usual web basics — IP address, browser, referring page — as on any ad-supported site.
- An anonymous usage counter
- When Circle Crop finishes we record that the tool ran, whether it succeeded and how long it took. No file data, no identifier, no cookie.
Your file is not on that list. How this works.
Frequently asked questions
A square PNG with a circular image and transparent corners, so it drops neatly into any avatar slot.
The centred square of the photo is used. Crop or reframe the image first if you need a different area centred.
Yes — a circular PNG is exactly what most social and chat apps expect for avatars.
Yes — Circle Crop is completely free. There's no account, sign-up, watermark or limit.
No. It runs in any modern browser — Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, Brave — with nothing to download or install.
Not sure a circle crop is what you need?
- You want a square or a custom rectangleCrop Image
- Just softer corners, not a circleRound Corners
- The right shape, wrong pixel sizeResize Image
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