cutbg

cutbg is a free online collection of 27 image and PDF tools that run entirely inside your browser. Its stated purpose is to help people fit photos and documents to any upload form: if a form says "max 100 KB" or "600×600 px", cutbg makes the file fit. The toolkit covers compressing an image to an exact target size, resizing to fixed dimensions such as passport or LinkedIn presets, converting iPhone HEIC photos to JPG, stripping GPS metadata, removing a background, and merging, splitting or signing a PDF. No upload, no account and no watermark are required. Most online image tools upload your photos to a server in order to process them, which means your files leave your computer or phone before you get a result. cutbg explicitly does the opposite. The site explains that every tool runs entirely on your device using modern browser APIs, so images never leave your computer or phone. The stated consequences are real privacy, no file-size queues, and results in seconds. The product is framed around a very concrete everyday frustration: upload forms that impose strict limits on file size or pixel dimensions, and passport, ID or profile requirements that demand one exact size. Compression is organised around exact target sizes. Dedicated pages let you compress an image to 250 KB, 150 KB, 100 KB, 50 KB, 20 KB, 500 KB, 2 MB or 5 MB, which matches the limits commonly stated by upload forms. A general Compress Image tool shrinks JPG, PNG and WebP file size with no visible quality loss, according to the site. Alongside compression, resizing works from named presets: 3840 × 2160 (4K), 1920 × 1080 (Full HD), 1200 × 627 for a LinkedIn post, 1080 × 1080 for an Instagram post, 1080 × 1920 for an Instagram story, 600 × 600 for a passport photo, 512 × 512 for an icon or avatar, and 1024 × 1024 for a square avatar. A separate Resize Image tool accepts exact dimensions. Because each preset maps to a real destination — an ID photo, a social post, a profile picture — users do not have to guess the numbers. The conversion group covers an Image Converter that moves between PNG, JPG, WebP and more on your device, and a HEIC to JPG Converter that turns iPhone HEIC photos into JPG or PNG without uploading anything — useful when a form or app refuses to accept HEIC. A related cluster handles background and privacy. Remove Image Background cuts the background out of any photo, described as free and unlimited in the browser. Remove Image Metadata strips EXIF and location data from photos before you share them, while the EXIF Viewer shows the camera, date and GPS data hidden in a photo without uploading it, so you can check what a file reveals before deciding to clean it. Blur & Pixelate Image blurs or pixelates part of a photo to hide faces, plates and sensitive information. Cropping and geometry tools handle framing. Crop Image crops to any size or aspect ratio by dragging a selection in the browser. Circle Crop produces a circular image with a transparent background, aimed at avatars and profile pictures. Rotate & Flip Image rotates 90° or flips an image horizontally or vertically. The Instagram Grid Maker splits a photo into a 3×3 grid for an Instagram puzzle feed. Together these cover the common cases where a photo is the right content but the wrong shape. Eleven PDF tools make up the largest group. Image to PDF and JPG to PDF combine JPG or PNG images into a single PDF in the browser. Merge PDF combines several PDF files into one; Split PDF splits a document into single pages or pulls out a page range; Delete PDF Pages removes pages and keeps the rest; Compress PDF shrinks scanned and image-heavy PDFs. PDF to JPG converts every page to a JPG or PNG image, while PDF to PNG produces lossless PNGs described as crisp for text. Rotate PDF rotates every page and saves the file, Add Page Numbers stamps page numbers onto a PDF at a chosen position, and Sign PDF lets you draw a signature and place it on a PDF privately in your browser. Four utilities round out the set. Add Watermark stamps text over your photos to protect them, with controls for position, tile, color and opacity. Favicon Generator turns any image into every favicon size plus a web manifest. Image Color Picker lets you click any pixel to grab its HEX and RGB value. Image to Base64 encodes an image to a Base64 data URI that is ready to copy and paste. The distinctive approach is architectural rather than algorithmic: processing happens locally in the browser instead of on a remote server. cutbg attributes this to modern browser APIs and notes that because the heavy lifting happens on your device there is no server bill to cover. That in turn explains the business model — the tools can stay genuinely free. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no upsell wall. The site adds that bookmarked tools work offline once loaded. The only tracking mentioned is cookies used for anonymous analytics, and the site states that images are never uploaded either way. The practical benefits follow from that design. Files stay on your device, so sensitive material such as signed PDFs, photos carrying GPS data, or images containing faces and plates is not sent anywhere. There are no file-size queues, and the site promises results in seconds. Exact-size compression and fixed-dimension resizing remove the trial-and-error of getting under an upload limit. And because the tools are free with no account, there is no barrier to using them occasionally. Typical scenarios map directly onto the tools. Someone filling in a government or job form that caps files at 100 KB or 50 KB compresses a photo to that exact size. A passport or ID application needs a 600 × 600 photo, while a LinkedIn or Instagram post needs 1200 × 627 or 1080 × 1080. An iPhone user converts HEIC to JPG so a website will accept the file. A seller or journalist strips EXIF and GPS data, or blurs a face or licence plate, before sharing. An applicant merges PDFs, deletes pages, adds page numbers and signs the result. A developer generates favicons or a Base64 data URI. cutbg is aimed at anyone who has to make a file conform to a form or platform: people submitting applications and ID photos, social media users preparing posts and stories, privacy-conscious users sharing photos, and developers needing small utilities. Pricing is free — the site says "free forever" with no sign-up, no watermark and no upsell wall. The Product Hunt listing notes 27 tools, 17 languages, and that files never leave your device. The platform is the web browser, on computer or phone. In short, cutbg is a privacy-first, browser-only toolbox for making images and PDFs fit wherever they need to go — exact file sizes, exact dimensions, clean metadata and finished documents — without uploading anything, without an account and without paying.