About IMGCutter
A fast, private image toolkit that never uploads your files.
Why it works this way
Almost every online image compressor follows the same pattern: you upload a file, a server compresses it, and you download the result. That design has real costs. You wait through two transfers instead of none, you accept whatever file size limit somebody else picked, and you hand your images — which might be private photographs, client work, or unreleased product shots — to a third party.
None of that is necessary any more. Browsers can run the same compression libraries natively through WebAssembly. IMGCutter uses libwebp, the reference WebP encoder, compiled to run inside your browser. Your images are read from disk, processed on your own CPU across several worker threads, and written back out. Nothing is transmitted.
The practical upshot: no upload wait, no file size cap, no daily quota, no account, and no queue. It also keeps working offline once the page has loaded, which is a straightforward way to verify the claim rather than simply trusting it.
Who runs it
IMGCutter is built and run by Zoltan Tamas. It is a hobby SEO project rather than a company — an excuse to build something genuinely useful and see how far it gets in search results on the strength of being fast, free, and private.
That also means there is no support department behind it, but messages do get read. If something is broken, say so and it will usually get fixed.
How it is funded
At the moment it is not funded at all — there is no advertising on the site and nothing is being sold. The intention is to add modest advertising later to cover hosting; if that happens, the privacy policy will say so before a single ad appears.
Either way, processing costs nothing per image, because your computer does the work. So there is no reason to meter usage, push a subscription, or hide the useful features behind a paywall. Everything the tool can do, it does for free.
We are also open about the fact that AI tooling helps build and maintain the site. What it is and is not used for is set out on the how we use AI page.
Another project
If you write Markdown, you may find MarkdownMonk useful — a clean, distraction-free Markdown editor built on the same principle as this site: it does one job properly, and it does not get in your way.