Compress Image to 200kB

There is no single standard, but 200 kB is the most useful default. The two biggest job sites set no tight limit at all: Naukri's photo guidelines talk about content – your own face, clearly visible, no group shots – rather than bytes, and LinkedIn accepts profile pictures up to 8 MB. The tight caps come from company career pages, applicant-tracking forms and campus placement portals, which tend to print a figure in the low hundreds of kB beside the upload button. A 200 kB JPG clears almost all of them, uploads in seconds on mobile data and still holds a 600 × 800 px headshot at high quality. When a form prints a smaller number, use that; when it prints none, 200 kB is a safe choice.

Yes, and a single page usually fits with room to spare. Scan at 150 dpi rather than 300: an A4 page then measures about 1240 × 1750 px, plenty for reading on screen and acceptable in print. Choose grayscale when the document is dark text on white paper, because colour scans carry paper tint and shadow noise that use up the byte budget for nothing. Crop away the desk around the page. Drop the JPG into the tool with 200 kB set and check the preview; the text should stay crisp at 100 % zoom. If the form wants a PDF, or you have several pages, use the PDF compressor with black & white switched on.

Yes, as long as the pixel count matches the use. A headshot shown at profile size needs far less than 200 kB: an 800 × 800 px square or a 600 × 800 px portrait comes out near the top of the quality scale with no visible difference from the original, and the tool often reports that such a file is already under the limit. What makes a photo look unprofessional is the source, not the compression: harsh shadows, a cluttered background, a tilted frame or a face cropped out of a group picture. Fix those first. Then let the tool land the file at or just under 200 kB and use the before/after slider to confirm nothing you care about has changed.

UPSC's online application FAQ allows 350 × 350 to 1000 × 1000 px for both the photograph and the signature, each between 20 and 300 kB as JPG. Pick exact 800 × 800 px in the resize box: it is comfortably inside the pixel window, the tool centre-crops without stretching, and a square portrait at that size lands under 200 kB at high quality. Take or crop the photo so your head and shoulders fill most of the frame, against a plain light background. For the signature, sign in black ink on white paper, photograph it straight on in daylight, crop to the signature and let the tool bring it to size; it will usually finish far below the target.

Yes. We treat 1 kB as 1,000 bytes, so a file from this page is at most 200,000 bytes. A portal that counts 1,024 bytes per kB reads that same file as about 195 KB, still below its 200 KB line. The tool also lands at or just under the target rather than rounding up, and the result panel shows the exact byte count so you can compare it with the form. The lower bound needs the opposite care: NTA forms set a 10 kB minimum and UPSC 20 kB, and a tiny thumbnail compressed further could fall below them. Start from the original camera file and the output will be well above any floor.

You can upload JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF (the first frame is used), BMP and AVIF, provided your browser can decode the file. HEIC photos from an iPhone open in Safari and other browsers with HEIC support; elsewhere the tool explains how to set the camera to Most Compatible so new shots are saved as JPG. Files up to 60 MB are accepted. For output, Auto gives a JPG in most cases and keeps WebP as WebP; you can also force JPG, WebP or PNG. PNG is lossless, so a PNG target is reached only by reducing dimensions, which is why JPG is the better pick for a small photo.

Strictly speaking, you never upload anything. When you choose a file, the browser reads it from your device and does the resizing and re-encoding in a background worker on that same device. No copy travels to our server or to anyone else's; the only thing our server sends you is the page. A useful side effect is that the browser rebuilds the image from its pixels alone, so EXIF data such as the camera model, the date taken and the GPS location is dropped from the output. That makes the compressed photo safer to share than the original you started with.

No. We have no image storage of any kind, because the file never reaches us in the first place. It sits in your browser's memory while you work, and the compressed version exists only on your device once you download it. Close or refresh the tab and both are gone. We keep no history, no gallery and no cache on our side, and we cannot see what you compress. Our web host records ordinary server logs, such as the time of a page visit and the browser used, but those cannot contain your pictures. For the full detail, read our privacy policy.

Mb2KbSizer is a free image and PDF compressor that runs inside your web browser. You pick a file, type the size you need, such as 100 kB, and it shrinks the file to land at or just under that number. Most people use it for upload forms that reject big files: exam registrations, passport and visa applications, job portals, bank KYC and college admissions. It is just as handy for lightening photos before you email them or put them on a website. There is a [single-image tool](/), a bulk compressor for up to 200 photos at once, and a PDF compressor, all built on the same no-upload principle.

Yes. Every tool on this site is free, and we intend to keep it that way. There is no sign-up, no premium tier, no daily quota and no watermark on the output. Compress one photo or three hundred; nothing counts against a limit. A few ads on the page pay for hosting. Because the heavy lifting happens on your own device rather than on our servers, each extra user costs us almost nothing, so there is no reason to charge. We do not sell an app, a plan or an API either, so you will never be nudged towards a paid version.

No installation is needed. Mb2KbSizer is a web page, so it works the moment it loads in current Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari or Samsung Internet on a phone, tablet or computer. Nothing is downloaded to your device except the page itself, and it does not ask for storage or camera permissions. If you use the tool often, you can add it to your phone's home screen from the browser menu and it will open like an app. It still needs an internet connection to load, though, so treat this as a shortcut rather than an offline program. There is no Play Store or App Store version.

Three steps, usually under a minute.

1. Add your photo. Drag it onto the upload box, tap browse to pick it from your gallery, or paste it from the clipboard with Ctrl/Cmd + V.
2. Set the target. Type a number and choose kB or MB, or tap a quick chip from 20 to 350 kB. On a preset page the field is already filled in. If a form demands exact pixel dimensions, set them in the resize option.
3. Press Compress, then Download. You get a before/after slider, the output dimensions, the quality used and the exact byte count, so you know it will pass before you submit it.