About ImageKit.io
What is ImageKit?
Pros
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“Amazing product delivered by a passionate team.”
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“I love how I am able to upload my files to the media library. When working with different teams I need an area to upload my files and put certain file uploads on certain sites that I have.”
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“We can get 20GB of monthly bandwidth, as well as 20Gb of free storage. ImageKit is also compatible with many programming languages, I think it’s the most amazing premium service I’ve ever tried.”
Cons
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“It took me about an hour after registering on how to use this application, which is really a lot of time wasted.”
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“I’m missing a feedback loop for things like missing images.”
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“Any features that are missing from the admin area are set up in minutes using this chat facility.”
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“If you are looking for fast image delivery, you can stop here.”
ImageKit features
Main features of ImageKit are:
- Uploads
- Cropping
- Transformation Control
- Migration on the fly
- Storage Management
- Signed images
- GIF Image optimization
- Plug and Play
- Format optimization – WebP support
- URL-based transformations
- Named and Chainable Transformations
- Limitless Storage
- Drag and Drop Interface
- APIs and SDKs
ImageKit Benefits
Ease of Use
ImageKit is designed to help users optimize images for SEO and other purposes without a struggle. The best part is that ImageKit empowers users to accomplish all image transformation process such as cropping, resizing, and watermarking directly from the image URL. As a result, users don’t have to download an image into their systems to be able to complete all the transformations.
Smart Crop Feature
It also includes a robust Smart Crop tool. This tool enables users to resize the images to suit the devices used by the end-users. The Smart Crop feature is built to enable users to deliver perfectly sized images to match the variations and requirements of different devices. Whether the end-user uses a desktop, smartphone, or tablet, the image delivery is seamless and smooth. Consequently, there is less work to transform images plus the end-users get an exceptional experience.
Innovative Image Compression Techniques
Better still, ImageKit leverages a range of unique image compression and reduction techniques. Often, when tweaking an image size, it is easy to alter the visual and resolution quality. However, with ImageKit techniques, it’s easy to compress and resize an image while retaining the visual quality. Even when converting GIF images into smaller animated WebP images, the resolution quality is maintained and the load times remain fast.