Why jpg.now is safe to use
jpg.now is a regular HTTPS web app that runs file conversion on its own servers using well-known open-source encoders (Pillow, ImageMagick, mozjpeg, oxipng, libheif, libwebp, etc.). All traffic between your browser and our servers is encrypted in transit. Files are stored on private disks and a private S3-compatible bucket, never on public object URLs.
No software install is required — everything happens in your browser, so there is nothing to download, no plugin to update, and no background process running on your machine.
What we don't do
- No signup wall. The first 10 conversions per day work without an account — no email, no name, no card.
- No watermark. Your output is the unmodified result of the encoder. No logo, no border, no overlay.
- No file scanning. We read the file header to detect the format and validate the size, but we don't open the image for content analysis, OCR, or moderation.
- No tracking inside files. If you tick "Strip EXIF" we remove GPS coordinates, camera serial numbers and other metadata from the output.
How to verify it for yourself
If you're security-conscious, you can verify behaviour by:
- Opening your browser's network inspector during a conversion — you'll see exactly one POST to
/api/convertand a small set of polls to/api/jobs/<id>. - Re-downloading the output file 25 hours later — the link returns a 404 (file purged).
- Reading the privacy policy and the terms of service in full.