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Croppenheimer

A fast, private photo cropper for social-media aspect ratios—on your Mac or in any browser.

Drop in a photo, choose an aspect ratio, drag to frame it, and export. Croppenheimer keeps the process quick and local: no account, no upload, and no waiting.

Croppenheimer photo cropper running as a native macOS app in dark mode

What it does

  • Useful presets for square 1:1, portrait 4:5, story 9:16, landscape 16:9, and custom ratios.
  • Precise framing with drag, scroll, or pinch controls and no transparent edges.
  • Exact-size export in JPEG or PNG, cropped from the full-resolution original.
  • An Instagram grid guide that previews the centre square inside portrait and landscape crops.
  • Complete privacy—your photos stay on your computer.
Croppenheimer showing a 4 by 5 crop with the Instagram grid guide
Check how a crop will read as a square grid preview.
Croppenheimer running in a web browser in light mode
The browser version follows your system’s light or dark appearance.

Two ways to use it

Browser version: one self-contained HTML file that runs locally in any modern browser, with no dependencies or installation. The download is a ZIP from GitHub—unzip it, then double-click Croppenheimer.html.

Mac app: adds Finder drag-and-drop, Open With support, source-folder-aware exports, and an optional desktop widget. Requires macOS 15 or later and runs on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.