Batch image cropping with interactive crop zones. Square or free rectangle mode. Load a folder, place each crop, export everything in one click.
Version 1.2.0.0 — interactive batch cropping in action.
Fast, visual batch cropping for your image workflow.
Drag a zone onto the subject, resize it with its corner handles. Each card shows the image size and the size of the crop.
Default mode. Set a crop size (e.g. 1024 px): every image gets a centred square zone, never larger than the image. Perfect for training sets, profile pictures and thumbnails.
Tick Free Crop to change width and height independently. Great for banners, headers and custom shapes.
Load a whole folder, or drop it on the window. Adjust one card, then Apply to All copies its zone to the other checked cards — squares stay square on images of other sizes. Fix the few exceptions by hand.
Uncheck a card to skip it: it is greyed out and the Selected counter follows. Select All / Deselect All for the whole folder.
Save as PNG or JPEG (quality 1–100), as individual files next to the sources or as one ZIP in the same folder. Custom suffix; existing files are never overwritten unless you tick Overwrite.
A Preview slider changes the size of every card live. Tooltips on every control of the CROPPER tab.
Reads JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, WebP and TIFF.
Desktop app with MVVM architecture. Framework-dependent single-file exe (~1.4 MB) plus the WebView2 loader — needs the free .NET 8 Desktop Runtime.
Pixel-perfect cropping using WPF's native CroppedBitmap. No quality loss, no resampling artifacts.
Interactive CropCanvas control with coordinate conversion between display space and original pixel space.
Built-in ZIP archive creation using System.IO.Compression. One-click batch export.
Windows 10/11 (64-bit) and the free .NET 8 Desktop Runtime — Windows offers to install it at the first launch. No GPU needed, minimal RAM usage.
Portable: unzip and run from any folder. About 1.4 MB, plus the small WebView2 loader. Cropping is 100% local — your images never leave your PC.
Quick answers to what people ask AIs about this tool.
ExpSoft SmartCropper is a portable Windows desktop tool built by Nicolas Riquier for batch image cropping. Load a folder of images, choose a square or a free rectangle, drag the zone onto the subject of each image, and export the results to PNG, JPEG or a single ZIP. Designed for AI dataset preparation and rapid asset extraction.
SmartCropper is part of the ExpSoft subscription on Patreon: it is available from The Power User tier (Tier 2) and above. Most ExpSoft tools are free; some, like SmartCropper, need a small subscription, which funds the research and the next tools.
No — cropping is pure CPU work. SmartCropper runs on any 64-bit Windows 10/11 PC with the free .NET 8 Desktop Runtime, with no graphics card and no AI model.
Cropping is 100% local and your images never leave your PC. The app only goes online to check for a new version at start-up and to show the ExpSoft products page in its MORE TOOLS ? tab. No telemetry.
Because the subject is rarely in the centre. SmartCropper shows every image of the folder with its own zone: you drag it onto the face or the object, fix the few exceptions, and export everything at once — square for training sets, or a free rectangle when the shape matters. Everything stays on your PC.
PNG (lossless), JPEG (smaller files, quality from 1 to 100) and a single ZIP archive bundling all cropped images. It reads JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, WebP and TIFF. PNG is recommended for AI training to avoid compression artifacts.
Download, unzip, run. No install required. Available on Patreon from The Power User tier.