1080 px is enough for Instagram
Instagram displays photos up to 1080 px wide, so larger photos are scaled down anyway.
Free Tool
Instagram Image Compressor
Make photos smaller before you post or send them. Resize to Instagram's 1080 px width, choose the quality and see how much space you save, for several images at once.
How It Works
Compress photos in three steps
Add your photos
Choose one or more photos, or drag them in. They stay on your device.
Choose size and quality
Pick a maximum width, such as 1080 px for Instagram, and the quality.
Compress and download
Click Compress, see how much smaller each photo is and download them, one by one or as a ZIP.
About
Why compress photos for Instagram?
Phone photos are often 3–10 MB and 4000 px wide, but Instagram shows them at 1080 px and compresses them again when you post. Resizing to 1080 px and saving at good quality first makes uploads faster on mobile data, saves storage and gives you control over how the photo is compressed.
80–85% quality is a good balance
At this quality the difference is hard to see, but the file is often much smaller.
Keep the original
Compression makes a new copy; keep your original photo in case you want to edit or print it later.
FAQ
Image compressor FAQ
Choose your photos, keep 1080 px and about 80% quality, and click Compress. Download the smaller copies and post them.
At 80–90% quality the difference is very hard to see. Instagram compresses every upload anyway, so starting from a clean 1080 px JPG often looks better.
They are saved as JPG, which is much smaller. Transparent areas are filled with white or black, whichever you choose.
No. Compression happens in your browser, on your device. Nothing is sent to or stored on our servers.
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