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Compress, resize and convert — iPhone HEIC included — straight inside Google Drive. Pick the files, the results land back where they came from. Every byte is processed in your browser: no downloading, no re-uploading, no server queue.

Open the app Install from Marketplace

Free for 100 images a month · No card · Watch it work

pixelcinch.com/app

Done — 12 files in 22 secondsShared drive · Marketing / Q3 assets

1.5 MBafter

12 of 12 processed100% · 22.0s

DSC_4417.heicHEIC43.5 MB412 KB−99%done

hero-banner.pngPNG11.4 MB413 KB−96%done

product-03.jpgJPEG5.7 MB243 KB−96%done

logo-mark.pngPNG589 KB18 KB−97%done

81.3 MB → 1.5 MB · 98% smaller · 22 seconds

81.3 MB → 1.5 MB12 files, one run

98% smallersame run

22 secondsstart to written

43.5 MB HEIClargest single file

Why it is different

Built for the files that usually break things.

Large photos, shared team folders, iPhone HEICs, transparent logos. The cases where other tools stop or quietly ruin the image.

Shared drives included

Team drives work exactly like your own. If you only have view access, PixelCinch still processes the images and saves the results to your own Drive instead of failing halfway.

No file size limit

A 43 MB photo is handled like a 400 KB one. Nothing capped, nothing quietly skipped.

HEIC from your phone

iPhone photos decode natively, alongside JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF and AVIF. Output as JPEG, WebP or PNG — or let PixelCinch pick per image.

Your images never leave your device

Compression runs inside your browser. Image data is never uploaded to our servers, because there is no server doing the work. We store an account record and a counter. Nothing else.

Whole folders at once

Pick a folder and everything inside is queued. Untick what you don’t want, run the rest.

Skipped files give the allowance back

If a file would not get at least 3% smaller, nothing is written and your count is refunded on the spot.

See it work

Same picture. A fraction of the bytes.

Drag the handle. The right side is compressed live, in your browser, by the app’s own engine — so the numbers under it are measured on your device, not quoted from ours.

fine detail — hardest for a codec

Forest sample photo, original on the left and the compressed result on the right

OriginalPixelCinch

Before—

After—

Smaller—

Took—

The right side is produced in your browser by the app’s own engine — not a pre-made file. Drag the handle to compare.

Where your images go

Drive, your browser, Drive. Nothing else.

The bytes travel between you and Google. There is no PixelCinch server in that path, because there is no server doing the work. We store an account record and a counter.

Google Driveoriginal file

download43.5 MB

Your browserdecode · resize · encodewhere the work happens

upload412 KB

Google Drivecompressed file

PixelCinch serversreceive: your email, a monthly counternever receive: image data

Try it on your own photo

Drop one here or pick one below. It is compressed by the same code the app uses, right in this tab — open your network tab if you like. Nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere to upload it to.

A photo straight off a phone shows the biggest difference.

How we are different

Two things we refused, on purpose.

To scan your Drive and hand you a number before you have picked anything, an app needs permission to read every file you own. To compress your photos on a server, it needs a copy of them. PixelCinch was built without either.

Apps that scan your whole Drive

Can list and read every file in your Drive
Uploads your images to a server to compress them
Needs Google’s annual CASA security assessment
Blocked by default in many Workspace organisations, until an admin allows it
Can quote you a saving before you pick anything

PixelCinch

Reads only the files you pick, through Google’s own picker
Compresses inside your browser — images never leave your device
No assessment required: Google confirmed we request no sensitive scopes
Installs like any other app, with no admin gate to clear
Quotes you nothing up front — you pick, then see every byte saved

The trade, honestly: because we never look at your Drive, we cannot promise you “27 GB back” before you start. You pick the files, and then you see exactly what each one saved. We think that is the better side of the deal — but it is a trade, and you should hear it from us.

Try it on your own files Install from MarketplaceFree for 100 images a month. Nothing to cancel.

How it works

Three steps, no setup.

Connect

Pick

Choose images from My Drive, a shared drive, or files shared with you. Whole folders work.

Run

Resize, compress, convert. Results go back to Drive — same folder, a new folder, or your own Drive.

Or skip the first two: install from the Google Workspace Marketplace, then right-click any image in Drive and choose Open with → PixelCinch. The file arrives already selected.

Pricing

One limit. Nothing else costs money.

Every feature is in the free plan. Paying only removes the monthly cap — by the month, once, or for a whole company.

Free

no card required

100 images a month.

Every feature, no trial clock
Shared drives and HEIC
Resets each calendar month

Start free

The things people ask first.

01What can PixelCinch see in my Drive?

Only the files you pick. We request the drive.file scope, which grants access to individual files you select through Google’s own file picker, plus files PixelCinch creates. It cannot list, search or read anything else.

02Do my images get uploaded somewhere?

03What happens to files that are already small?

04Can I overwrite the originals?

05What does the free plan actually include?

Your Drive is not going to shrink itself.

100 images a month, every feature, no card. Takes about a minute to try.

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