Compress a JPG — to the exact size you need
Name a KB target, or set the quality yourself. Nothing uploads.
Name a KB target, or set the quality yourself. Nothing uploads.
Most JPG compressors hand you a quality slider and let you guess. But the actual requirement is almost never "a bit smaller" — it is a hard ceiling. Under 500 KB for an application form. Under 2 MB for an upload that silently fails above it. Under 100 KB for a profile picture.
Guessing at quality percentages until the file happens to land under the limit is the wrong shape of tool for that job.
Target size takes the number directly: say how many kilobytes you need to be under and it works out the compression required to get there. Quality mode gives you the slider when you care more about how it looks than what it weighs.
Resizing while you compress is often the bigger lever. For an image that will only be viewed on a screen, reducing the pixel dimensions usually costs nothing visible and saves far more than quality alone.
Yes — .jpg and .jpeg are the same format, and both work here, along with PNG and WebP.
You decide. Quality mode sets the level explicitly; target-size mode uses whatever compression is needed to reach the size you asked for, so a very aggressive target will show.
Compression strips EXIF metadata, which also removes the GPS coordinates photos often carry.