To cut an image in half, drop it into the splitter above. It cuts straight down the middle and gives you a left half and a right half. Flip the axis for a top and bottom cut, and drag the line if the middle is not where you want it. Both halves download instantly.
Drop an image here
or , or paste with Ctrl+V
JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP and AVIF, up to 50 MB.
Drag any line to move a cut. Tab to a line and use the arrow keys to nudge it one pixel, or hold shift for ten.
Vertical cuts give side-by-side pieces. Horizontal cuts stack them.
The tool picks the rows and columns that keep the pieces closest to square.
A shared strip on each seam, so the sheets can be trimmed and taped.
Each piece is resized to the size this page targets before it is saved.
Your image never leaves your device. Splitting runs in your browser with the Canvas API.
The tool starts with a vertical cut, which gives you a left half and a right half. The Direction toggle swaps it for a horizontal cut, so you get a top half and a bottom half instead. Either way the line is draggable, so the halves do not have to be equal.
| Pieces | 2, in 1 row of 2 |
|---|---|
| Cut lines | 1 vertical, 0 horizontal |
| Pieces from a 1080 × 1080 Instagram square | 540 × 1080 px |
| Pieces from a 1080 × 1350 portrait | 540 × 1350 px |
| Pieces from a 4000 × 3000 phone photo | 2000 × 3000 px |
| Pieces from a 1920 × 1080 screenshot | 960 × 1080 px |
| Other arrangement of a 4000 × 3000 photo | 2 × 1 gives 4000 × 1500 px |
Cutting a picture in half is usually a repair job, not a design one.
Someone else is in the photo and you want them out. A scan came back with two book pages in one file. A screenshot caught two windows and you only need one of them. In every case the interesting question is not how many pieces you get, it is where the line goes.
So the line moves. Grab it and drag, or select it and nudge with the arrow keys. The preview updates as you go, and there is a reset button when you want the true midpoint back. That single feature is why cutting in half here works better than cropping twice by hand: you see both halves at once, and you only make the decision once.
The default cut is vertical, one row and two columns, producing a left half and a right half. The axis toggle turns it horizontal for a top half and a bottom half. A 4032 × 3024 iPhone photo cut vertically gives two 2016 × 3024 px halves; cut horizontally it gives two 4032 × 1512 px halves.
Nothing is uploaded. That matters more here than on most splits, because half the reason people cut a photo in half is that they would rather not share the whole thing with anybody, let alone a server.
Two people standing side by side become two separate pictures. Drag the cut line into the gap between them instead of accepting the midpoint, then keep the half you want. This is faster than cropping because you can see where the line falls against both subjects while you move it.
Flatbed scans of an open book produce one wide file with a dark gutter down the middle. Cut it there, not at 50 percent, since the binding is rarely centred. You end up with a left page and a right page that can be filed, read or run through text recognition separately.
A very wide panorama is awkward to print and awkward to frame. Cut it in half and you get two prints that hang as a pair, each with a workable aspect ratio. Move the seam so it lands on a quiet part of the scene rather than through a building or a face.
Flip to a horizontal cut and the top of a screenshot separates from the rest. That gives you a clean banner from a page header, or a body section with the navigation removed. Export as PNG so text and interface edges stay sharp instead of picking up JPG artefacts.
Drop the photo into the splitter on this page. A vertical line appears down the middle and the preview shows both halves. Drag the line if you want the cut somewhere other than dead centre, choose your output format, then download the left and right halves separately or as a ZIP.
Yes. The axis toggle switches the cut from vertical to horizontal, so instead of a left and right half you get a top and bottom half. Everything else works the same way: the line is draggable, the preview is live, and both halves export at full resolution.
Not if you export to PNG or lossless WebP, which copy the pixels exactly. Exporting to JPG re-encodes each half once at quality 92, which is very hard to see. Neither half is ever scaled down, so both keep the resolution they had in the original file.
Open this page in Safari and tap the upload area to pick a photo. The cut line responds to touch and the halves save straight to Files. HEIC photos need converting first: set Settings, Camera, Formats to Most Compatible so new photos save as JPG.
Yes. This page runs in the browser with no install, no account and no watermark. The Canvas API does the cutting on your own device, which is why it works offline once the page has loaded and why your photo is never sent anywhere.
One half gets the extra pixel. A 1001 pixel wide image splits into a 500 pixel half and a 501 pixel half, with the remainder always going to the second piece. Nothing is dropped or duplicated, so the two halves line up exactly if you rejoin them.
Yes, and this is one of the most common reasons people cut in half. Drag the line to the boundary between the two pictures rather than the midpoint, since side-by-side layouts are rarely symmetrical, then export each half and trim any leftover border.