Compress photos and images
Make photos lighter for email, upload forms and websites. Works with iPhone HEIC too — and nothing is uploaded.
Preset
Format
Files never leave your device. Everything runs in this tab — nothing is uploaded.
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Photos eating your iPhone storage?
Get it on the App StoreClear Cleaner finds duplicate and similar shots across your whole library and suggests the best one to keep — you confirm what goes.
How it works
- Your browser decodes the photo (HEIC included), redraws it on a canvas and encodes it again with the settings you picked.
- JPG is encoded by the browser itself. For WebP, Safari can’t encode from a canvas, so the page loads a small WebAssembly encoder the first time you need it.
- Location and camera metadata (EXIF) are dropped — handy when you send photos to strangers.
Good to know
- JPG has no transparency: transparent areas of a PNG turn white. Pick WebP to keep them.
- On iPhone, photos above about 16 megapixels are scaled down to fit Safari’s canvas limit.
- If a photo is already well compressed, you get the original back instead of a bigger copy.
- Up to 20 photos at a time.
Questions
Are my files uploaded anywhere?
No. The file is read and converted by your browser in this tab. You can check it yourself: open the developer tools, switch to the Network tab and run a conversion — no request carries your file.
Which preset should I use?
“Balanced” keeps the full resolution and usually cuts a phone photo by half or more. “Smaller” and “Smallest” also reduce the dimensions — fine for screens, not for printing.
I need the file under a specific size.
Use the size-targeted versions: under 1 MB, under 500 KB or under 100 KB. They search for the best quality that fits.
Will compressing photos free up space on my iPhone?
Not much — iPhone photos are already efficient HEIC files. Videos, duplicates and near-identical shots are what fill phones. That’s what Clear Cleaner looks for.
Can I compress a PNG without losing transparency?
Pick WebP as the format. JPG has no transparency, so transparent areas would turn white.