Compress JPEG to 50KB

This page is set up for one job: a website has told you your photo must be under 50 KB. Job applications, school and exam portals, membership cards and older government forms ask for exactly that. A modern phone photo is often 3 to 5 MB, a hundred times too big, and most people end up guessing with quality sliders until the file squeaks through.

Here the guessing is done for you. The target is already set and the output is already JPG, the format almost every form accepts. The tool looks for the highest picture quality that still fits; only if that is not enough does it make the photo a little smaller in pixels, step by step, until the file fits.

It aims for 48 KB rather than exactly 50. Some sites count a kilobyte as 1,000 bytes and others as 1,024, so a file of “50 KB” can be rejected by one and accepted by another. 48 KB is under the limit either way. Everything runs in your browser: the photo never leaves your device.

1. Tap “Choose files”, drop your photo on the box, or paste it. You can add up to 20 photos at once.
2. Check the line above the tool: it says the target is under 50 KB and the format is JPG. Leave “At most” on 48 KB unless your form says otherwise.
3. Press the button that reads “Compress to 48 KB”. Each photo’s row then shows its new size and the quality used.
4. Press “Download”. One photo saves directly; several come as a single ZIP file.

• Opens with the 50 KB job already chosen: target 48 KB, saved as JPG.
• Finds the best quality that fits, from 95% down to no lower than 30%.
• Reduces the pixel size in 80% steps only when quality alone cannot reach the target.
• Reads iPhone HEIC photos, PNG, WebP, AVIF, TIFF, GIF, BMP, SVG and ICO, and turns sideways phone photos upright.
• Every setting stays changeable: pick 20 KB, 100 KB or type your own limit.
• A big before-and-after preview for each photo, so you can check faces and text stay clear.

• Crop to just the face or the document first (Crop Image), so the 50 KB is spent on what matters.
• If a site still refuses the file, check the format too: some want “.jpeg” and accept “.jpg” only after renaming.
• A passport-style photo at 50 KB usually stays sharp at around 600 × 800 pixels; a full scene gets softer.
• Hidden camera details such as the location are left out of the new file, which is good for privacy.