Crop

Upload an image, drag to reposition, scroll to zoom, then crop and download. Everything runs in your browser. No uploads, no servers.

But why?

I crop images often enough that reaching for a full editor started to feel silly. Photopea is excellent, but opening a Photoshop clone to trim a screenshot is overkill. I also usually need an exact output size, which is the part most quick croppers get wrong.

The Croppic story

This is a recreation of a jQuery plugin I wrote years ago called Croppic.

I built it while working on a project and published it without expecting much. It was an image cropper, nothing revolutionary, but it worked well and I was proud of it. Then it got picked up by JavaScript Weekly, the GitHub stars started rolling in, and people were actually using my thing.

Then everything happened at once. My day job hit a rough patch, I picked up a side gig to keep the lights on, and Croppic needed more attention than I could give it. Issues piled up. I felt guilty about every unanswered ticket and every unmerged PR. If you have ever maintained something in your spare time you know the feeling, the one where strangers on the internet are politely disappointed in you.

So when someone offered to take over maintenance, I said yes and handed the repo across. The handover did not go the way I expected, and I ended up with no involvement in the project I had started. My own fault as much as anyone's, since none of it was written down.

The lesson was cheap at the price. Agree the terms in writing before the handover, and put the attribution in the licence rather than in an email. I have done it that way ever since.