PixForge — Image Converter & Editor
Right-click any image on the web to save it in your chosen format. Editor, batch tools and screenshots — all 100% local.
Opens the official Chrome Web Store listing · works in Chrome, Edge and Brave
PixForge exists because of a specific recurring annoyance: you have an image in the wrong format or at the wrong size, you need it fixed in twenty seconds, and every free converter online wants an upload, shows an advert, imposes a queue on the free tier, and sometimes watermarks the result.
Modern browsers can do all of this natively and instantly. PixForge is a thin, well-made interface over that capability — right-click any image on the web and save it directly in the format you want, or open the editor for resizing, compression, cropping and batch work. It also captures screenshots, so the whole image workflow sits in one place.
We built it initially as an internal tool for our own design and content work, then published it because the friction it removes is universal.
The problem it solves
The web has moved to AVIF and WebP, and a great deal of tooling has not kept up. Designers receive PNGs that should be WebP; developers receive 4000-pixel hero images that should be 1600; content teams need a 1200×630 crop for an Open Graph card and open Photoshop to get it.
None of these need a professional editor. They need three controls and an immediate result, ideally without the image leaving the machine.
Privacy commitments
- All processing happens locally in the browser.
- No uploads, no server, no queue.
- No analytics, no account, no identifiers.
- Optional EXIF stripping to remove location data before you publish.
Permissions and why
- activeTabTo read an image you have right-clicked, or to capture the visible tab for a screenshot.
- contextMenusAdds the right-click entries on images.
- downloadsTo save the converted output.
What it actually does
Right-click save-as-format
Convert and save any image on the web directly from the context menu, without downloading the original first.
Format conversion
Between WebP, AVIF, PNG, JPEG and BMP in either direction, using the browser’s own encoders.
Batch processing
Drop in multiple files and apply the same conversion, resize or compression to all of them at once.
Screenshot capture
Visible area or full-page capture, then straight into the same editor for cropping and conversion.
Resize, crop and compress
Common web and social presets, aspect-ratio lock, rule-of-thirds guides, and a quality slider with live file size.
Metadata stripping
Optionally remove EXIF data, which frequently contains GPS coordinates people do not intend to publish.
Three steps, no configuration
Right-click, or open PixForge
Use the context menu on any image on the web, or click the toolbar icon and drop local files in.
Choose the operation
Convert, resize, compress, crop or capture. Operations can be chained in one pass.
Export
Download individually or as a batch. Nothing was uploaded at any point.
About PixForge — Image Converter & Editor
Including where another tool would serve you better. If you have found a bug or want a feature, tell us on WhatsApp — we read every message.
AVIF encoding is genuinely more computationally expensive — it typically produces meaningfully smaller files at the same visual quality, and the encoding cost is where that comes from. On a modern machine a single image takes a second or two; a large batch is worth starting and leaving.
Lossy formats do by definition, which is why there is a live preview with file size shown. In practice most web images can drop to around 75–80% quality with no perceptible difference and a substantial size saving. PNG output is lossless.
It can rasterise SVG to PNG, WebP or AVIF at a chosen resolution. It does not edit SVG as vector — that is a different tool with a different interface.
No hard limit, but very large batches consume browser memory. Fifty images at a time is comfortable on typical hardware; several hundred is better split into groups.
How we build and keep a published extension alive
PixForge — Image Converter & Editor is built natively on Manifest V3 rather than ported from the older extension architecture, and that distinction matters more than it sounds. Manifest V3 replaced persistent background pages with ephemeral service workers that the browser is free to shut down at any moment. An extension written on the old assumptions works perfectly on a developer’s machine and behaves unpredictably on a user’s machine after their laptop has been asleep for four hours.
So state is persisted to storage and restored rather than held in memory, anything that must survive a worker restart uses an alarm rather than a timer, and long operations are structured as resumable steps. Where network behaviour is modified, it uses declarative rules evaluated by the browser rather than a JavaScript listener on every request — which is why the extension adds no measurable per-request cost to your browsing.
Permissions are the part users are right to scrutinise, and we design for the narrowest set that makes the feature work. Anything optional is requested at the point of use rather than at install, which is both more honest and, for a public extension, materially better for install conversion. Every permission this extension holds is listed on this page with the specific reason it exists.
Maintenance is the unglamorous half. Chrome ships changes on a six-week cadence, target sites change their markup without notice, and Web Store policy is updated periodically with limited warning. We monitor for breakage, publish fixes promptly, respond to reviews, and keep the listing compliant. An extension that is abandoned becomes uninstallable within about two years as platform requirements move — so we treat publishing as a commitment rather than a launch.
We maintain seven live extensions for exactly this reason: it is how we stay genuinely fluent in Manifest V3 behaviour, review policy and the operational reality of shipping to real users — which is what we then bring to the extensions we build for businesses.
Engineering notes
- Manifest V3 native — service worker lifetime assumed, never persistent state in memory.
- Declarative rules for any network behaviour, so there is no per-request JavaScript cost.
- TypeScript throughout, with schema validation at every boundary where data enters.
- Optional permissions requested at the point of use rather than at install.
- Bundled dependencies — no remotely hosted code, which MV3 prohibits and reviewers check.
- Chrome and Edge from one build; Firefox needs a compatibility layer, Safari a native shell.
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