Pixnify

About Pixnify

A free image platform that is being built to work in your browser, so that compressing, converting and resizing a picture never means handing it to a server.

What it is for

Pixnify is meant to be the place you go when a picture is the wrong size, the wrong format or too heavy for where it has to go: a web page, an email, a form with an upload limit. It will not ask you to register, and it will not ask you to upload anything, because the tools are designed to run on your device.

What exists today

The site, its pages and its privacy policy exist. No image tool is available yet. Nothing on Pixnify compresses, converts, resizes or crops a picture at the moment, and the site does not pretend otherwise. When a tool is ready it will get its own page and be added to the home page.

What is planned

  • Image compressor. Make JPEG, PNG and WebP files smaller, and AVIF where the browser can encode it, with a quality setting and a before-and-after size comparison.
  • Image converter. Change pictures between PNG, JPG and WebP, with a background color for transparent pictures that are saved as JPG.
  • Image resizer. Set a width and height with the aspect ratio kept, resize by a percentage or pick a common social media size.
  • Image cropper. Cut a picture down to the part you want, freely or to a chosen ratio.
  • Image dimension checker. Read the width, height, format and file size of a picture.

The order is not fixed, and you can say which you need first through the contact page.

How the tools will be built

A picture will be opened by the browser, redrawn on a canvas and encoded again in the format you choose, on your own device. Heavy work will run so that the page keeps responding, and a file that is too large or in a format the browser cannot read will be refused with a message that says why. A format will be offered only when the browser can write it. Every result will show its size before and after.

Working in the browser has costs that are worth knowing. It uses your device's memory and processor, so a very large picture can be slow or fail on a phone, and browsers differ in what they can encode. The tools will state their limits instead of hiding them.

How it is funded

Pixnify is free to use and may be supported by advertising. Advertisements will be labelled and kept away from upload, conversion and download controls, and never placed where they could be mistaken for a control. The privacy policy describes what advertising partners may collect when ads are shown.