Resize Image to 120x120 (120 x 120 Pixels)
Resize any photo to exactly 120×120 pixels for iPhone app icons, touch icons and compact avatars. Crop, fit or stretch: free and private in your browser.
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120 x 120 pixels: uses, aspect ratio and how to resize
120×120 pixels is best known as an iPhone icon size: the 60-point home-screen app icon rendered at 2x on Retina iPhones, and also the 40-point Spotlight icon at 3x. Web developers meet it as a common apple-touch-icon size, the picture an iPhone shows when a page is added to the home screen. Designers use the same square for compact avatars, sponsor logos and badges in sidebars and lists. Because the image usually appears at about 60 points on screen, a clear silhouette matters far more than fine detail.
A 120 × 120 image holds 14,400 pixels (0.01 MP). Saved as a JPG at the default 90% quality, a typical photo at this size weighs roughly 3 to 6 KB; logos and flat graphics are usually lighter. In print, 120 pixels span 0.4 in (1 cm) at 300 DPI, or 0.8 in (2 cm) at 150 DPI.
What 120 × 120 pixels is used for
- iOS icon sets: the 60 pt @2x iPhone app icon and the 40 pt @3x Spotlight icon in an Xcode asset catalogue.
- apple-touch-icon for websites: the icon shown when visitors save your site to an iPhone home screen.
- Compact avatars: user lists, chat sidebars and author boxes that show pictures at about 60 CSS px on retina screens.
- Partner and sponsor grids: uniform square logo tiles that keep a row of brands tidy.
How to resize an image to 120 × 120 pixels
- Drop your images on the box, click to choose them, or paste one with Ctrl+V (JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, GIF, BMP, TIFF, SVG; up to 80 MB each).
- The size is preset to 120 × 120 px with Crop to fill; choose which part to keep (center, top, bottom, left or right) or switch to Fit with background or Stretch.
- Pick the format: Original, JPG, PNG, WebP or AVIF (in browsers that can encode it), and set the quality, or switch to Target size and enter a limit in KB.
- Drag the before/after slider on the preview; every change is re-rendered live.
- Click Download, or Download all (ZIP) for several files, named like photo-120x120.jpg.
Turning a non-square photo into 120 × 120
Phone and camera photos are usually 4:3 or 3:2, so a square needs a decision. Take a 4000 × 3000 shot: Crop to fill scales it to 160 × 120 and trims about 20 px from the left and right edges. Fit with background keeps the whole picture at 120 × 90 and fills 15 px above and below with white, black, grey, any colour or transparency (PNG, WebP, AVIF). Stretch squeezes it to 120 × 120, which distorts faces, so keep it for images that are almost square already. With Fit, the Don't enlarge smaller images option centres a small source at its own size instead of blowing it up.
Tips for 120 × 120 images
- iOS rounds the corners of app icons itself, so export a full square without rounded corners or drop shadows, and keep the background opaque: choose JPG, or PNG with a solid colour rather than Transparent.
- Recent Xcode versions can generate every icon size from a single 1024×1024 image, so a separate 120 px file is mainly needed for older projects, hand-built icon sets and web touch icons.
- For a logo, choose Fit with background and your brand colour so the mark sits inside the square with some breathing room instead of being cropped at the edges.
Everything runs in your browser: images are never uploaded, and there is no account, no watermark and no limit on the number of files. Under More options you can write a DPI value into JPG and PNG files or change the file-name pattern, and location and camera data (EXIF) are always removed. Related tools: 1024×1024 resizer, 100×100 resizer and custom size resizer.
120x120 image size at a glance
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 120 × 120 pixels |
| Aspect ratio | 1:1 |
| Orientation | square |
| Total pixels | 14,400 (0.01 MP) |
| Print size at 300 DPI | 0.4 × 0.4 in (1 × 1 cm) |
| Print size at 150 DPI | 0.8 × 0.8 in (2 × 2 cm) |
Related sizes: 100×100, 150×150, 200×200, 250×250. For any other width and height, use the custom size resizer.
Features
- Exact 120 × 120 px output with crop, fit or stretch
- Choose what to keep: center, top, bottom, left or right
- JPG, PNG, WebP or AVIF with quality or target-size control
- Batch processing and ZIP download, all in your browser
- Icon-ready 120 px squares for iOS and touch icons
- Solid background colour for opaque icons
Frequently asked questions
What is a 120x120 image used for?
Most often for iPhone app icons (60 pt at 2x), website apple-touch-icons and small avatars or logo tiles that are displayed at around 60 px on high-density screens.
Is 120x120 the right size for an iPhone app icon?
It is the @2x home-screen size in a classic iPhone icon set, next to 180×180 for @3x devices. The App Store listing needs a separate 1024×1024 icon, which you can make with the 1024×1024 resizer.
Should a 120x120 icon be PNG or JPG?
PNG is the usual choice because edges and text stay crisp; just give it a solid background, since iOS icons should not be transparent. JPG also works and is smaller, but can show slight artefacts around lettering.
How do I resize a photo to 120x120 without cropping it?
Choose Fit with background. The whole photo is scaled to fit inside 120 × 120 px and the empty space is filled with a colour you choose, or left transparent when you save as PNG, WebP or AVIF.
What size is 120x120 pixels in inches or cm?
At 300 DPI it prints at 0.4 × 0.4 in (1 × 1 cm); at 150 DPI at 0.8 × 0.8 in (2 cm). On screen only pixels count; DPI matters for printing and can be set under More options.
Can I resize multiple images to 120x120 at once?
Yes. Add as many images as you like (they all get the same settings) then download them one by one or together as a ZIP file.
What aspect ratio is 120 x 120?
120 x 120 is a square, so its aspect ratio is 1:1: the width and the height are the same.