# Foliotek/Croppie

A Javascript Image Cropper

Repository: https://github.com/Foliotek/Croppie
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/croppie
Homepage: http://foliotek.github.io/Croppie
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: javascript-image-cropper, croppie, image-cropper, crop-image, image, jquery-plugin
Last push: 2023-03-02T22:15:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4332, "days_push": 1280, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2627, forks 862 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:05.419572+00:00)

## What it is
Croppie is a fast, easy-to-use JavaScript image cropping library with extensive configuration options, usable standalone or as a jQuery plugin. It supports zooming, rotation, EXIF orientation handling, and returns cropped image results via canvas.

## Use cases
- crop profile pictures before upload
- let users select a square region of a photo
- crop images in the browser with zoom and rotate controls
- add an image cropper to a jQuery or Vue/Angular app
- handle EXIF-rotated photos from mobile cameras

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight, dependency-free browser image cropper
- you want simple jQuery integration or framework wrappers
- you need zoom, rotation, and EXIF support out of the box

## When to avoid
- you need server-side or native image cropping
- you require a heavily tested, actively developed library (it has no test suite and is in maintenance mode)
- you need advanced features like face-aware cropping

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing, ui-components, plugin-system
- domain: web-development, frontend, image-processing
- platform: browser
- tags: image-cropper, jquery-plugin, exif-orientation, zoom, avatar-cropping, javascript

## Member repositories
- Foliotek/Croppie (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:05.419572+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:19:43.397878+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Foliotek/Croppie (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:05.419572+00:00, sha fe77a5af183a)
  - homepage: http://foliotek.github.io/Croppie (fetched 2026-08-29T10:02:47.398642+00:00, sha 171263764c4d)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/croppie (fetched 2026-08-29T10:02:47.401555+00:00, sha d5571d806dad)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.