Why Sharpmonk exists

Every year, millions of people applying for bank, medical, engineering and government exams hit the same wall: the form won't accept their photo. It's 3 MB and the limit is 50 KB, or the signature is 6 KB and the minimum is 10, or it's a PNG with a .jpg name. The usual fix is a resizer site that uploads your face and signature to its server, wraps the result in ads, and quotes numbers copied from another resizer site.

Sharpmonk does the job differently:

• Exact. Files are built to the pixels, KB window and DPI the form asks for, and measured before you download them — not estimated.
• Sourced. Every exam page is built from the official notification, linked, with the page number and the date it was checked.
• Private. Resizing happens in your browser. There is no server for your images to go to.

How it works explains each step, including the one that surprises people: how a file too small for a portal's minimum is brought up to it.

Who's behind it

Sharpmonk is built and maintained by Shravan Cherukuri, a software engineer, as an independent, self-funded project. The same maker runs two sister sites with the same approach — work from the official rules, and show the working:

• Upaman — financial calculators for loans, tax, savings and investing.
• Railmonk — IRCTC cancellation refunds, Tatkal timings and waitlist tools, built on the published railway rules.

Which exams are next

Exams are added one at a time, only after reading the official notification. If yours isn't listed yet, the resize-to-KB tool takes any numbers in the meantime — and tell us which exam to add.