No bloated software. No privacy nightmares. No "enterprise pricing" that requires a sales call.
We got tired of image tools that either (a) wanted to install 2GB of software on our machines, (b) uploaded our files to who-knows-where, or (c) charged $50/month for features we'd use twice.
So we built imgfast. It converts images fast, deletes them after 24 hours, and costs less than a coffee. That's it. That's the pitch.
Most conversions finish in under 3 seconds. We built our pipeline on libvips (same engine that powers Sharp) because we hate waiting for progress bars just as much as you do.
Your files are gone in 24 hours. Automatically. No checkboxes, no settings, no "please delete my data" emails. We don't analyze your images, train AI on them, or sell them to anyone. We literally just convert and then delete them.
Free tier is actually useful. Paid tiers are $3.99 and $9.99. No "contact sales" buttons. No annual contracts required. No surprise fees. Cancel whenever.
WebP and AVIF for web performance. HEIF for Apple stuff. JPEG XL for photographers who are tired of choosing between quality and file size. RAW support for when you need to convert that NEF before your deadline.
We don't use Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, or any third-party tracking. Zero. We built our own analytics to understand how imgfast is used — what features work, what breaks, where we're slow. Your browsing isn't packaged up and sold to advertisers. We don't even know who you are unless you create an account. Your browser has enough to do without running 20 tracking scripts on every page.
If you care about what's under the hood (we would), here's the stack:
Image processing: libvips 8.17 with a custom build, Sharp for the Node.js bindings, SVGO for vectors, ImageMagick 7 for RAW files. We spent way too much time benchmarking these.
The web stuff: Astro for the site, SolidJS for the interactive bits. PostgreSQL for data, Redis for queues and rate limiting. Running on a beefy server in a European datacenter, not some serverless thing that cold-starts for 3 seconds.
Why it matters: We process images on real hardware with real CPUs. No Lambda timeouts, no weird memory limits. Your 50MB RAW file gets the same treatment as a tiny PNG.
We're a small operation based in Vancouver, Canada. No VC funding, no growth-at-all-costs mentality, no plans to pivot to AI or crypto or whatever's trending this week.
We just want to build a really good image tool and charge fair prices for it. Revolutionary, we know.
We read everything that comes in. Seriously.