iLoveIMG Alternative That Never Uploads Your Images

XTools image tools are a free iLoveIMG alternative for the everyday jobs: compress, resize, crop, convert, rotate, watermark and remove a background. They run inside your browser, so your images are never uploaded, and there is no file-count or file-size cap. iLoveIMG still does things we don't, including AI upscaling, turning a web page into an image, and automatic face blur, and this page lists them.

XTools vs iLoveIMG at a glance

	XTools	iLoveIMG (free plan)
Where images are processed	In your browser, on your device	On iLoveIMG's servers. Files stay there until you download them, then are deleted
Compress or resize	No cap set by the tool	30 files and 200 MB per task
Crop	A batch, no cap set by the tool	1 image, 90 MB. Premium is still 1 image
Remove background	A batch, no cap set by the tool. The AI model downloads once	3 images, 6 MB. Premium is the same
Compression control	A quality slider, or a target file size	No level to choose. The compressor picks one
Price	Free, no account	Free. Premium is priced in your local currency
Apps and API	Web only, works offline once opened	A mobile app (through iLovePDF), an API, and Zapier, Make and WordPress

iLoveIMG figures are from iloveimg.com (the pricing comparison and the FAQ), checked on 1 November 2026. In our browser Premium was 525 JPY a month when billed annually (6,300 JPY a year), or 930 JPY billed monthly. The page shows a different amount in other countries, so we don't quote one price as the price.

What we measured

We generated 40 noise JPEGs on our own machine, each 2300 × 1750 pixels, 226.5 MB in total, and compressed them on xtools.im in Chrome on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro, 32 GB). The time runs from choosing the files until every image is ready to download, and is the median of three runs. Settings were the page defaults: keep the format, quality 75.

Job	Input	Result	Time
Compress, quality 75	40 JPEGs, 2300 × 1750, 226.5 MB	The page showed 66.9 MB (−69%)	127.5 s

1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes, so the input is 226,459,719 bytes. The tool counts 1,024 bytes as a kilobyte, and displayed this batch as 216 MB in and 66.9 MB out. Both are the same files.

40 files and 226.5 MB are each past iLoveIMG's free compress limit (30 files and 200 MB per task), so the free plan would turn this batch away.

While the job ran, we logged every request the page sent. No request body was over 1 KB. The only ones carrying data were page-view analytics pings. No request contained the images. For comparison, an upload service has to receive all 226.5 MB before it can start: at 20 Mbit/s that transfer alone is about a minute and a half, before any processing.

What these numbers don't show:

• The files are generated noise saved at JPEG quality 100, not camera photos. Noise has no smooth sky or skin, so a photo will not shrink by the same 69%. We used noise so the megabytes are real, not an empty file that collapses to nothing.
• We did not run iLoveIMG on the same files, because that would mean uploading them. We'd rather leave that column out than guess it.
• Speed depends on your device. This laptop has three encoder workers. An old phone will be slower; iLoveIMG's servers work at the same speed whatever device you use.

What iLoveIMG does that XTools doesn't

• AI upscale. Enlarge a JPG or PNG while trying to keep it sharp. Free is 1 image and 6 MB; Premium is 3 images, still 6 MB. Our resize can make an image larger, and it tells you the result will look softer, because enlarging does not add detail.
• HTML to IMAGE. Paste a page URL and get a JPG or SVG. We don't fetch or render other people's web pages.
• Blur face. It finds faces (and can blur plates and other objects). Our mosaic and blur part of an image only change the areas you mark yourself.
• A photo editor with text, effects, frames and stickers, one image at a time, 50 MB on every plan. We have separate tools for adjustments, borders and memes, not one editor.
• PSD and camera RAW as inputs for Convert to JPG. We accept HEIC, TIFF, GIF, BMP and SVG, and we don't read PSD or RAW.
• Apps and an API, plus opening files from Google Drive or Dropbox and saving them back.

If you need any of these, iLoveIMG is the better choice for that job.

What XTools does that iLoveIMG doesn't

• Crop more than one image. iLoveIMG allows 1 crop on Free, Premium and Business. Crop takes a batch, with a separate box on each image.
• Choose how hard to compress. Quality, or a target size such as 200 KB. iLoveIMG's FAQ says you cannot change the compression level.
• More formats. Compress and convert JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL and QOI. AVIF and JPEG XL are not in iLoveIMG's compress list (JPG, PNG, SVG, GIF).
• Remove metadata on purpose. Strip metadata shows the camera, date and location fields and removes them. Compression removes EXIF by default too, and can keep it.

When XTools is the better fit

• The images are private: IDs, medical scans, unreleased designs, client photos. Nothing leaves your device, so there is nothing kept on a server until you download it.
• You have more than 30 images, or more than 200 MB, and don't want a subscription.
• You need to crop several photos. iLoveIMG's crop stays at one image on the paid plans.
• You want to pick the file size, for a form that rejects anything over 100 KB or 1 MB.
• Your connection is slow or metered. The images never travel over it.

How to compress and crop images without uploading them

1. Open Image Compression and drop in your files.
2. Keep the format, or pick WebP or AVIF for a smaller file. Set Quality, or choose Target size and a maximum such as 200 KB.
3. Download each image, or all of them as a ZIP.
4. To cut them to a ratio, open Crop, pick 1:1 or 4:5, and apply it to the whole batch.
5. To mark a file as yours first, use Watermark.

The same no-upload approach covers Resize, Convert, Rotate and flip, Remove background and Meme.

Questions

Do my images really stay on my device? Yes. Decoding and encoding happen in the page. You can check: open your browser's developer tools, go to the Network tab and compress a file; no request carries it.

Is there a size or file limit? None set by the tools. The ceiling is your device's memory. We compressed 40 images, 226.5 MB, on a laptop in a little over two minutes.

Can I crop a folder of photos to the same ratio? Yes. Add them all, pick a ratio, and each one gets the largest centered crop of that ratio. Click a thumbnail to move that image's box. iLoveIMG's crop accepts one image.

Will enlarging an image make it sharper? No. Resize can enlarge up to 16,384 px on a side, and it warns you that the result looks softer. iLoveIMG's upscale tool is the one that claims to keep visual quality, within 6 MB.

Does it work offline? Tools you've opened keep working offline afterwards, because the site installs as a progressive web app.

For one-format compression, see our TinyPNG alternative. For PDFs, see our iLovePDF alternative.