Circle Crop / Avatar Maker

Because it was saved as JPG, which has no transparency — the area outside the circle has to become a solid colour. Download as PNG instead and the corners stay genuinely transparent, so the image sits cleanly on any background rather than inside a visible box.

Around 400×400 pixels covers most platforms comfortably; 800×800 is safer if the image might also be shown large. Start from a square crop so the circle catches the subject properly — cropping a wide photo to a circle usually cuts off more of the head or shoulders than people expect.

Most platforms apply their own circular mask to whatever you upload, so a pre-cropped circle inside a transparent PNG generally displays correctly. The exception is anywhere that shows the raw image on a coloured background — there the transparency is what saves you, which is why PNG matters.

Yes, Circle Crop / Avatar Maker is completely free. No signup, no account, and no watermark on outputs. A Pro tier is available for 100 AI ops/day and larger file sizes.

Circle Crop / Avatar Maker uploads your file over an encrypted connection to our own processing server, converts it, and returns the result. The file is deleted immediately after processing and is never used for anything else. It is not sent to any third party, and we keep no copies.