What is Smart Crop in Cleanr?
Smart Crop in Cleanr by MRVL is a free resizing tool that lets you instantly reframe your photo to any of six preset aspect ratios: square, portrait, landscape, story format, and two additional sizes.
How Smart Crop Works
Smart Crop simplifies the job of fitting your photo to different social media platforms and formats. Instead of manually cropping or struggling with aspect ratio math, you tap Smart Crop and choose from six ready-made dimensions. Whether you need a square image for Instagram posts, a portrait crop for Stories, or a landscape frame for YouTube thumbnails, the tool adjusts your photo instantly. The crop preserves the most important part of your image and you can preview the result before saving.
Six Aspect Ratios at Your Fingertips
The tool includes six preset ratios covering the formats most creators and small business owners actually use. Square format works for feed posts and product shots on Shopify or Etsy. Portrait ratio suits tall Stories and Reels. Landscape is ideal for covers and web headers. The additional three formats handle less common but still useful dimensions. Because Smart Crop is part of Cleanr's free tier, you can crop as many photos as you want without hitting a daily limit or running out of credits.
Why Smart Crop Matters in a Complete Editor
Smart Crop sits alongside Cleanr's other 21 tools, meaning you can crop and enhance in one app. Use auto-enhance to brighten your image, apply object removal to clean up backgrounds, and then Smart Crop to fit the platform. Faith creators can pair Smart Crop with Cleanr's warm presets and scripture overlays built for Christian social media. Small business owners can crop product photos and export them watermark-free, making batch processing faster when you're preparing inventory shots for multiple platforms.
Free on Both iOS and Android
Smart Crop is available to all Cleanr users, whether you're on the free plan or a paid tier. No unlock needed, no in-app currency, no watermark on your finished crop. The free tier gives you unlimited access to frames, faith presets, and this cropping tool. If you need more advanced edits like HSL colour grading, selective adjustment brushes, or generative fill, Cleanr's Plus and Pro tiers unlock those. But Smart Crop itself remains free and unrestricted.
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Frequently asked questions
Can I use custom aspect ratios or just the six presets?
Smart Crop offers six preset aspect ratios designed to match the most common social platforms and formats. If you need a non-standard dimension, you can manually crop using Cleanr's standard crop tool or export and crop externally.
Is Smart Crop available on the free plan?
Yes. Smart Crop is a free feature included for all Cleanr users, whether you're on the free tier or a paid subscription.
Does Smart Crop add a watermark?
No. Cleanr doesn't watermark free exports. Your Smart Crop result exports clean with no branding.
Can I batch crop multiple photos at once?
Smart Crop works on one photo at a time. However, Cleanr's batch process feature (available on Plus and Pro tiers) lets you apply multiple edits to 10-50 photos in one go, including resizing.
What's the difference between Smart Crop and regular crop?
Smart Crop offers six preset aspect ratios for speed and consistency across platforms. Regular crop gives you freehand control. Smart Crop is ideal when you're publishing to the same platforms repeatedly.