About ImagePal
ImagePal is a free, browser-based toolkit for working with images. Compress them, convert between formats, or resize them — all without uploading a single byte to a server. It's the image tool we wished existed: fast, private, and genuinely free.
Why we built it
Most "free" online image tools operate the same way: you upload your file, their server processes it, and you download the result. That means every photo you compress, every screenshot you convert, every family picture you resize — briefly lives on someone else's disk. For personal photos, confidential design mockups, or anything sensitive, that tradeoff never felt right.
Modern browsers are powerful enough to do all of that work locally. ImagePal is a demonstration of what happens when you build an image toolkit without the upload step at all. It's faster (no network round-trip), it's private by default (nothing to leak), and it works offline after the page loads.
What we stand for
Privacy first
Every image is processed locally in your browser. We built ImagePal because most online image tools quietly upload your files — we don't.
Genuinely fast
No upload or download round-trips means results appear as soon as your CPU finishes. For a 10 MB image, that's usually under a second.
Built on the modern web
ImagePal uses Web Workers, OffscreenCanvas, and native browser codecs. The same engine your browser uses to decode JPEGs and WebP powers every operation.
Quality you can trust
We use standard, well-tested browser APIs — no hand-rolled codecs, no lossy shortcuts. What you see is what you get.
What ImagePal does
Compress
Shrink JPEG, PNG, and WebP files while keeping the quality high enough that most viewers can't tell the difference.
Convert
Swap between JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, and TIFF. Ideal for modernizing legacy images or fitting a specific tool's requirements.
Resize
Adjust width and height in pixels with an optional aspect-ratio lock. Perfect for social avatars, thumbnails, and web layouts.
How it works under the hood
When you drop an image into ImagePal, the browser reads the file from disk into memory. A Web Worker decodes it off the main thread, runs the requested operation (compression, conversion, or resize) using OffscreenCanvas, and encodes the result back into the target format using the browser's built-in codecs. The resulting file is returned through a blob URL so you can preview and download it instantly.
At no point does a network request carry the image data. You can confirm this by opening your browser's Network tab while using the tool, or by disconnecting from the internet after the page has loaded — everything keeps working.
Free, ad-free, and staying that way
ImagePal is 100% free — no daily limits, no watermarks, no "Pro" upsell, and zero ads. Not a banner, not a sponsored-content box, not a third-party ad network quietly tracking you in the background. That's not an accident — it's the whole point.
Because everything runs in your browser, we don't pay for servers per image processed, so the site is genuinely cheap to run. What little it does cost (domain, hosting, the time spent building new features) comes out of our pocket.
The only telemetry we use is Cloudflare's cookieless Web Analytics and Real User Monitoring — aggregate page counts and performance metrics, no cookies, no fingerprinting, no third- party ad networks. If we can't measure it without tracking you, we'd rather not measure it.
Help us stay ad-free forever
Running ads would be the easy way to cover costs — but it would mean adding trackers, cookie banners, and requests that break our "nothing leaves your device" promise. We don't want to do that, ever.
If ImagePal saved you time or a subscription to some other tool, a small tip goes a long way. Every coffee buys another month of keeping this site fast, private, and free of ads for everyone.
Buy me a coffeeQuestions about privacy?
We keep things simple and transparent. Our privacy policy spells out exactly what does and doesn't happen to your data.
Read the privacy policy