About ilovejpg
Why this toolkit exists, how it is built, and the principles that shape every feature.
Our purpose
ilovejpg began with an ordinary frustration. Resizing a photograph for an application form, shrinking a scan for an email or turning a handful of receipts into a PDF should take seconds, yet the usual online tools ask people to upload personal files to unknown servers, wait in queues, create accounts or accept watermarks on the result.
We set out to build the opposite: a set of JPG tools that open instantly, show every setting openly and process files on the visitor's own device. The result is a toolkit for the jobs that JPG images and their PDF companions require most often, carried out with care for both quality and privacy.
How the toolkit is built
Every tool on this website runs in the browser. Images are read through the File API, adjusted on an HTML5 canvas and encoded by the browser's own image encoder. PDF files are written directly in the page, and PDF pages are rendered by the open-source pdf.js library, which we serve from this website rather than from a third party.
Because the work happens locally, your files are never transmitted to us. We could not view them even if we wished to, and there is no stored history to protect or delete.
What we value
- Privacy that follows from design rather than from promises.
- Precision: exact pixel dimensions, visible quality values and honest size estimates.
- Accuracy in what we write, including clear statements of what the tools cannot do.
- Accessibility on every kind of device, from office desktops to older phones.
Our articles
Alongside the tools we publish long-form articles on JPEG compression, file size limits, metadata and format choice. They are written to a high editorial standard, checked against published specifications, and kept free of exaggerated claims.
Relationship with other services
ilovejpg is a separate project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to iLovePDF, iLoveIMG or any other image or document service, and all product names mentioned on this website belong to their respective owners.