Crop Image to Circle Online for Free
Circular photos show up everywhere — profile avatars, app icons, badge-style logos, and rounded product thumbnails — but getting a genuinely transparent circular cutout usually means opening a design tool and manually applying a clipping mask. This tool does it automatically: drop in a photo and it crops out a circle from the center, making everything outside that circle fully transparent in the output.
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Crop Image to Circle Online for Free
Circular photos show up everywhere — profile avatars, app icons, badge-style logos, and rounded product thumbnails — but getting a genuinely transparent circular cutout usually means opening a design tool and manually applying a clipping mask. This tool does it automatically: drop in a photo and it crops out a circle from the center, making everything outside that circle fully transparent in the output.
The circle's diameter is set to the largest one that fits your image — the shorter of its width or height — centered on the frame, the same centering logic used by the square crop tool. Because a circular cutout requires a transparency channel to look right (anything less would leave hard corner artifacts or a background color showing through), the output is always a PNG regardless of what format you uploaded, even if your source was a JPG with no transparency to begin with.
This is genuinely different from a simple rectangular or square crop: rather than just selecting a region of pixels, the tool clips the image against a circular path on the canvas, so the four "corners" that would exist in a square crop are discarded and replaced with transparency instead of image content. Drop the result straight into a design tool, a profile picture uploader, or an icon generator — it'll composite cleanly over any background color.
Everything happens locally in your browser via the Canvas API. Drop in a single photo or a batch that all need the same treatment; each is cropped independently and, for multiple files, bundled into a zip download.
Common questions
A circular crop needs a transparency channel to look correct — the area outside the circle has to be transparent, not a solid color. JPG doesn't support transparency at all, so the tool always outputs PNG regardless of your source format.
A square crop keeps every pixel within a rectangular region. A circular crop clips the image against a circular path, discarding the four "corner" areas a square would keep and replacing them with transparency instead.
No — the circle is always centered on your image, sized to the largest circle that fits (the shorter of width or height). For off-center subjects, crop closer to them in a general editor first, then run the result through this tool.
Yes — that's exactly the kind of use case this tool is built for. The transparent-background PNG output composites cleanly over any avatar frame, background color, or UI element.
No — the circular clip and transparency are applied entirely in your browser using the Canvas API, so your image never leaves your device.