Twitter/X Profile Picture Downloader
Full-size profile pictures, no cropping.
Free · Updated May 2026
X shrinks profile pictures to a tiny circle in the app, so right-clicking only ever gives you a blurry thumbnail. xfetchy fetches the full, uncropped original instead — the square image at the resolution it was actually uploaded.
Paste a link to the profile or to any post from that account, and xfetchy pulls the avatar at full quality. It is the clean way to grab your own old avatar, archive a brand mark, or save a picture you have permission to use.
How to use the Profile Picture Saver
- 1Copy the post link. On X, tap the share icon under the post and choose Copy link — or copy the URL from your browser's address bar.
- 2Paste it into xfetchy. Drop the link into the box above and press Fetch. xfetchy reads the post and finds what it contains.
- 3Download the image. Tap Download to save the full-resolution image — no cropping, no compression.
How big are the images?
X stores avatars at up to 400×400 pixels and serves shrunken, circle-cropped versions throughout the interface. xfetchy returns the largest square original on file, with no circle mask and no extra compression. Remember that a profile picture belongs to its owner — save responsibly and do not impersonate anyone.
Good reasons to grab a full-size avatar (and one bad one)
The common legitimate uses: recovering your own old profile picture after switching accounts, archiving a brand or team's current avatar for an internal style guide, or pulling a clean reference image for something you have permission to design around.
The one thing this tool should not be used for is building a fake or impersonating account — using someone else's full-resolution photo to pose as them is against X's own rules and, depending on what you do with it, can carry real legal exposure well beyond a platform ban. If an account has no custom avatar at all (just the default egg or generic silhouette), there is nothing meaningful to download.