Browser media lab

Make Any Image, Video, GIF or Audio Intentionally Worse

Drop in a file, choose a gloriously bad preset, compare the damage, and download the result. Your media stays in your browser.

Files stay on your deviceDownloads have no watermark

Processing uses browser media APIs. Support depends on your device.

Large video and GIF files can take time and memory to finish.

Media bytes are not sent to our server or a third party.

Start with a format

Five focused tools, one deliberately bad taste

The homepage identifies supported media automatically. Use a focused page when you want format-specific guidance and controls.

Image

Pixelate, compress, oversaturate, and shrink still images.

Video

Recreate 144p, old YouTube, VHS, and CCTV video.

Meme

Make a reaction image look reposted and deep fried.

GIF

Lower animation size, frame rate, and color detail.

Audio

Create a crushed, noisy, cursed-microphone sound.

Presets for recognizable badness

Jump to 144p, 2009 YouTube, Deep Fried, VHS, CCTV, or Cursed Mic. Then override resolution, bitrate, frame rate, or audio sample rate where the detected format supports it.

The media stays in this tab

Processing happens with browser media APIs. LowQualityMaker can record anonymous coarse events such as the media category, preset ID, and success or failure, but never the file, filename, caption text, or media bytes.

Bad output, clear expectations

Compare before you download

Preview the original and degraded versions side by side. Final codecs and exact output values depend on browser support, and the result downloads without a LowQualityMaker watermark.