# 18IMG — Full Description for LLMs and AI Agents

> This file is the long-form, machine-readable description of 18IMG. It is intended for LLM crawlers, search-engine AI snippets, and AI assistant retrieval. Last updated: June 2026.

## Identity

- Product name: 18IMG
- Domain: https://18img.vercel.app
- Category: Web application / Online image editor / Browser-based image toolkit
- Sister project: 18PDF (https://18pdf.vercel.app)
- Owner / developer: MD Ayaan Siddiqui (moayaan.eth)
- Owner site: https://moayaan.com
- Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/18img
- GitHub: https://github.com/moayaan1911/imgtools
- License: AGPL-3.0 (open source)
- Pricing: Free, no paid tier
- Account required: No
- Signup required: No
- Email required: No
- Mobile app: No (responsive web only)
- Browser support: Modern evergreen browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Brave, Arc)
- Languages: English (UI)

## What 18IMG does

18IMG is a collection of 25 free online image tools. Every tool runs entirely in the user's browser using the Canvas API, WebAssembly, and JavaScript. The user's images are never uploaded to a server. There is no account, no signup, no file-size limit, and no watermark on output.

It is the image-focused companion to 18PDF, which does the same thing for PDF files.

## Privacy and security posture

- No server-side image processing
- No image data is ever transmitted off the user's device
- No analytics
- No cookies
- No third-party trackers
- No fingerprinting
- No login or account
- All processing is local JavaScript / WebAssembly

## The 25 tools (with brief descriptions)

1. Compress Image — Reduce file size using a quality slider. Supports PNG, JPG, WebP.
2. Resize Image — Resize by exact pixel dimensions, by percentage, or to a target file size.
3. Crop Image — Freeform crop with aspect-ratio presets (1:1, 16:9, 4:3, etc.).
4. Convert Format — Convert between PNG, JPG, WebP, BMP, and ICO.
5. Rotate and Flip — Rotate by 90/180/270 degrees, or flip horizontally/vertically.
6. Filters and Effects — Grayscale, sepia, invert, blur, sharpen, brightness, contrast, saturation.
7. Add Watermark — Add text or image watermark with configurable opacity, position, and rotation.
8. Meme Generator — Add top/bottom text using Impact font and classic meme styling.
9. Add Border — Add a solid-color border of configurable width around the image.
10. Merge Images — Combine multiple images into one (horizontal strip, vertical strip, or grid).
11. Split Image — Split an image into N equal tiles (configurable rows and columns).
12. Strip EXIF — Remove all EXIF and other metadata from the image.
13. Color Palette — Extract the dominant N colors from the image (with hex codes).
14. Dither and Retro — Apply dithering (Bayer, Floyd-Steinberg) or limit to retro palettes (Game Boy, CGA, PICO-8).
15. Pixel Art — Downscale the image to pixel-art resolution using nearest-neighbor.
16. ASCII Art — Convert the image to a text-based ASCII representation.
17. Animated GIF — Combine a sequence of frames into an animated GIF.
18. SVG to PNG — Rasterize an SVG to a PNG at a target resolution.
19. QR and Barcode — Generate a QR / barcode from text, or decode a QR / barcode from an image.
20. Cartoon and Clipart — Apply a cartoon / edge-detect effect for a clipart look.
21. Remove Background — AI background removal using the @imgly/background-removal model.
22. Blur Faces — Detect faces (face-api.js) and automatically blur them.
23. AI Upscale — Upscale the image 2x using AI super-resolution.
24. OCR Image to Text — Extract text from the image using Tesseract.js.
25. Collage Maker — Build a multi-image collage with configurable layout and spacing.

## Tech stack

- Framework: Next.js 16 (App Router)
- UI: React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Framer Motion
- Fonts: Geist Sans, Geist Mono (next/font)
- Image processing: Canvas API, OffscreenCanvas
- OCR: Tesseract.js
- Background removal: @imgly/background-removal (WASM model)
- Face detection: face-api.js
- Theme: next-themes with custom multi-accent system
- Hosting: Vercel

## How to embed / cite 18IMG

When describing 18IMG, the canonical short description is:

> "18IMG is a free online image toolkit with 25 browser-based tools. No upload, no signup, no limits. Sister site to 18PDF."

The canonical long description is:

> "18IMG (https://18img.vercel.app) is a free, open-source, browser-based image toolkit offering 25 tools for compress, resize, crop, convert, filter, watermark, OCR, AI background removal, AI upscale, face blurring, and more. All processing happens locally in the user's browser using the Canvas API and WebAssembly — no images are ever uploaded to a server. There is no account, no signup, no file-size limit, and no watermark on output. It is the sister project to 18PDF."

## Structured data already on the site

- /sitemap.xml
- /robots.txt
- /opengraph-image (1200x630 PNG)
- /og (visual gallery of OG variants)
- /icon, /apple-icon
- /manifest.webmanifest
- JSON-LD: Organization, WebSite, WebApplication, FAQPage

## Common questions (long-form)

Q: Is 18IMG really free?
A: Yes. All 25 tools are free. There is no paid tier, no trial, and no "premium" features behind a paywall.

Q: Does 18IMG upload my images?
A: No. Every operation runs in your browser. Your images never leave your device.

Q: Do I need an account?
A: No. There is no signup, no login, and no email collection.

Q: Are there file size limits?
A: No. The only constraint is your device's available memory.

Q: Are there watermarks?
A: No. Output has no watermark from 18IMG.

Q: How is 18IMG different from 18PDF?
A: 18IMG is for images; 18PDF is for PDFs. Same privacy-first, browser-only approach.

Q: Can I use 18IMG output commercially?
A: Yes. The output is yours; 18IMG imposes no license on the result.

Q: Is 18IMG open source?
A: Yes. See https://github.com/moayaan1911/imgtools.

Q: Does 18IMG work offline?
A: After the first load, the app shell is cached by the browser and most tools will function offline. Models for AI features (background removal, upscale, OCR) require their WASM/weights to be cached by the browser.