Discord PFP Maker & Cropper

Upload 512 × 512 pixels. What Discord then shows is much smaller — roughly 128px on a profile popout, about 40px beside a message, and 32px in the member list — so the extra resolution exists for high-DPI screens rather than for size on screen. The image must be square, and the file must be under 10 MB.

Still 512 × 512, and unchanged for years — the spec has been stable across Discord’s username and profile overhauls. Anything from 128 × 128 upward is accepted and resized, but 512 is the size worth uploading. The only figure that regularly catches people out is the 10 MB file cap.

Also 512 × 512, and also masked to a circle — in the server list it renders as a small round icon, so a wide logo or text near the edges gets clipped. The tool above works for server icons as well; the crop and export are identical, only where you upload it differs.

Discord masks every avatar into a circle, so the corners of your square image are always hidden. If your subject sits near an edge it gets clipped. Crop to a circle first — the preview above shows exactly what survives the mask at profile, chat and member-list sizes.

Yes, on display. Discord stores the square image you upload and masks it to a circle in the UI, which is why the file you download here is square while the preview is round. Keeping the square means the full image is preserved anywhere it renders un-masked.

Explicit avatars breach Discord’s Community Guidelines. Unlike channel content, a profile picture cannot be age-gated — it appears in every server you are in, including ones with minors — so it is held to an all-audiences standard regardless of where you use it. Enforcement is report-driven and ranges from a forced avatar removal to account termination for repeat or severe cases.

Discord supports animated avatars, but only with Nitro — and this tool exports still images (PNG, JPG, WebP) rather than re-encoding GIFs. Browser-side GIF encoding is slow and degrades quality badly, so we would rather not ship a worse version of it. Crop an animated GIF in a dedicated GIF editor at 512 × 512 instead.

No. The crop and export run entirely in your browser using the canvas API — the file never leaves your device. That is also why it is instant, and why it works on images you would not want to hand to a random website.

PNG for artwork, logos, or anything with sharp edges and flat colour — it stays crisp. JPG or WebP for photographs, where they produce a much smaller file at the same visible quality. WebP is the smallest of the three and Discord accepts it fine.