Compress an image to 500KB
Bring any high-resolution photo under 500KB in your browser — free, no sign-up, no watermark. Maximum quality that fits, found automatically. Never uploaded.
Drop an image — we’ll compress it under 500 KB
or click to choose — JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, AVIF
Compressing in your browser…
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Rollphy Pro lifts the file limit and unlocks batch mode.
500KB is the typical ceiling for high-quality web imagery: real-estate listings, product photography on marketplace sites, photography contest entries and print-shop upload forms. This page compresses any image under 500KB without uploading it — the processing happens in your browser.
At this budget, quality is rarely the problem; fitting a 20-megapixel camera original is. Rollphy first searches encoding quality at full resolution and only scales down when a source is truly enormous — and it always shows you the final dimensions and exact size before you download.
Because the output is WebP (JPEG on Safari), a 500KB image from this tool typically looks like a 700–800KB JPEG from desktop software — the format is simply more efficient per byte.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I compress a large photo to 500KB without losing sharpness?
- Almost always. Full-resolution photos up to roughly 4000px wide fit 500KB with high quality; bigger sources are scaled down as little as possible.
- Why is the output WebP instead of JPG?
- WebP stores the same visual quality in 25–35% fewer bytes. Every major site and app accepts it; Safari users automatically get JPEG instead.
- Does the 500KB version keep EXIF or GPS data?
- No — re-encoding strips metadata, which also removes location data from photos before you post them. That is usually exactly what you want when publishing.