This tool compresses JPEG files under 100 KB in your browser — a common ceiling for job-portal profile photos, ATS attachment thumbnails, and forum avatars. Since phones and cameras already save JPEG, you can usually drop your photo straight in without converting.

JPEG trades a little detail for a lot of size by encoding the image in 8×8 blocks and discarding subtle information. That's why an over-compressed JPEG shows faint blocky patches and halos around edges, and why re-saving the same JPEG repeatedly degrades it a bit each time — every save is a fresh lossy re-encode. Working from your original in a single pass keeps that loss to a minimum.

With 100 KB to spend, the tool lowers quality first and only scales dimensions if needed, so a headshot stays sharp enough to look professional. Everything runs locally — nothing is uploaded.