Free image compressor for photos that upload too slowly
Drop a photo in and it comes back smaller — often a fraction of the original size — while still looking the same at the size anyone will actually view it.
Drop a photo here
Or click to browse — you can paste one straight from your clipboard too.
Choose an imageOpening the editor…
Your image is on its way. Work starts the moment it lands.
Three steps, nothing to learn.
Upload, let it run, download. The editor opens with your image already loading.
Add your photo
Drag a JPG, PNG or WEBP up to 10 MB onto the box above, click to browse, or paste from the clipboard.
Pick a quality level
The editor opens with a quality slider set to 80, which is the sweet spot for most photos. Lower it if you need a smaller file, raise it if the image has fine detail.
Download the smaller file
Save it, or keep working in the same editor — resize it for a marketplace, or convert it to WEBP for your own site.
A heavy image costs you twice: once in upload time, once in the visitors who leave before your page finishes loading.
Most people compress because a form rejected their upload. The reason to keep doing it is speed.
Upload limits that reject you
Etsy caps listing photos, eBay caps them, and every contact form has its own ceiling. A 12 MP phone photo is routinely 5–8 MB and gets refused. Compressing to 80% quality usually lands it comfortably under the limit with no visible change.
Pages that load before people leave
Image weight is the single biggest factor in how fast a page paints. A product grid of twenty uncompressed photos can be 40 MB. The same grid compressed is often under 5 MB, and that difference is felt on every mobile connection.
Email attachments that go through
Most mail providers cap attachments around 25 MB. A handful of original photos blows past that. Compressed, the same set fits comfortably and arrives instead of bouncing.
Storage that stops filling up
If you keep every product shot you have ever taken, compressed copies of the web versions take a fraction of the space while the originals stay archived wherever you keep them.
Quality you control
The slider is not a guess. 90 and above is close to lossless and barely shrinks anything. 80 is where most of the saving happens with no visible difference. Below 60 you start to see it, which is sometimes fine for a thumbnail.
No watermark, no downgrade
The file you download is the file that was made. There is no reduced version behind a paywall and nothing stamped across the middle.
Compressing before you upload.
Zyvavo is built by someone who sells on Etsy and eBay, so these are the jobs it was made for first.
Etsy listing photos
Etsy accepts large files but re-encodes anything you give it, and its own compression is not gentle. Handing it a photo you compressed yourself means you chose where the quality went instead of letting the platform choose for you. Ten listing photos at 400 KB each also finish uploading before your connection times out — which matters a lot more on a slow line than on fibre.
eBay galleries and mobile buyers
Most eBay traffic is on a phone, often on mobile data. A gallery of twelve original photos is tens of megabytes; the same gallery compressed loads while the buyer is still reading your title. Listings that paint fast get scrolled past less.
Shopify and WooCommerce product grids
A category page pulls every product thumbnail at once, so weight multiplies. Compressing the source images before upload is the cheapest performance win available to a small store, and it survives every theme change.
Sending proofs and mockups to clients
A folder of full-resolution mockups will not fit in an email and turns into a link, a download and a delay. Compressed, the same folder attaches and the client sees it in the thread instead of chasing a file.
What it handles well — and where it struggles.
No tool is perfect, and any page claiming otherwise is selling you something. Here is roughly where the line sits.
Photographs
Anything with gradients, texture and natural light compresses beautifully. Product photos, portraits and scenery routinely drop 60–80% in size with nothing visible lost at any sensible viewing size.
Flat graphics and text
Logos, screenshots and anything with hard edges or lettering show compression artefacts sooner than photographs do. Keep the quality high, or use PNG for these instead — that is what PNG is for.
Already-compressed files
A JPG saved at 70% quality has already thrown away most of what compression removes. Running it again saves very little and costs a bit more quality. Compress from the original where you can.
Five things worth knowing.
Compression is a trade, and the trade is easier to win if you know where the free wins are.
- Start at 80, then look. It is the level where most of the saving happens and almost nobody can tell. Only go lower if the file is still too big.
- Resize before you compress. A 4000px photo shown at 1000px is carrying four times the pixels it needs. Resizing first saves far more than any quality setting.
- Compress from the original. Each round of JPG compression is permanent. Going back to the camera file gives a better result than squeezing an already-squeezed copy.
- Use WEBP for your own site. It compresses better than JPG at the same visible quality. Convert after compressing if you control where the image is displayed.
- Keep flat graphics as PNG. Logos and screenshots do not belong in JPG. PNG keeps their edges crisp and is often smaller for that kind of image anyway.
New accounts start with 100 credits free — that is 100 compressions — with no card and no subscription. Compression is the cheapest job in the suite because it is the one people run most often.
Answered.
Is the image compressor free?
Every new account gets 100 credits at signup with no card required, and a compression costs 1 credit — so 100 images before you have paid anything. After that, credit packs are a one-off purchase rather than a subscription, and the same balance covers every other tool.
How much smaller will my file get?
For a typical photograph at the default quality of 80, expect somewhere between 60% and 80% smaller. A 5 MB phone photo commonly lands around 1 MB. Files that are already compressed will shrink far less, because most of what compression removes has already gone.
Will the picture look worse?
At the default setting, not in any way you will notice at normal viewing sizes. Compression works by discarding detail the eye is poor at seeing. Push the slider low enough and it becomes visible — that is why the slider exists rather than a single fixed setting.
What is lossy compression?
It means some image data is permanently discarded to make the file smaller, rather than packed more efficiently. JPG and WEBP are lossy. PNG is lossless, which is why PNG files of photographs are so much larger.
What file types can I compress?
JPG, PNG and WEBP, up to 10 MB per image. The output keeps the format you put in unless you convert it afterwards in the same editor.
Will there be a watermark?
No. What downloads is the full compressed image with nothing added to it.
Do you keep my photos?
No. An image is held only for as long as the job takes and is then removed. It is not added to any training set and it is never visible to another account.
Can I compress several images at once?
Not yet — images are processed one at a time today. Batch handling is on the roadmap, and each image will cost the same 1 credit when it arrives.
Should I compress before or after removing the background?
After. Background removal outputs a PNG, and compressing that PNG afterwards gives you the smaller file without having compressed the input twice.
Does compressing change the image dimensions?
No. Compression reduces file size while leaving width and height untouched. If you want fewer pixels as well, use the resizer — that is usually the bigger saving of the two.
Everything else you can do to the same image.
Once a photo is open in the editor, every tool below is one click away — no re-uploading.
Try it on your worst photo.
The hardest image you have is the honest test. Drop it in and see.