Convert WebP to PNG
Drop in your WebP files and download PNGs. The decoding and re-encoding happen in this tab, so nothing is uploaded.
Conversion happens inside this page using your browser's own image engine. Your files are never uploaded.
How to use it#
- Drop your WebP files onto the box above, or click it to pick them.
- Each file is decoded and written back out as a PNG.
- Download them one at a time, or all at once.
Why you end up needing this#
WebP saved a lot of bandwidth on the web and then quietly leaked out of the browser. Right-click and save an image today and you often get a .webp file, which is fine until you try to open it in an older copy of Photoshop, drop it into a print template, or attach it to a form that only lists JPG and PNG.
PNG is the safest thing to hand to software you do not control. It has been readable by everything for twenty-five years, it keeps transparency, and no program is going to reject it on sight.
What the conversion does and does not fix#
PNG stores pixels exactly, so nothing is lost between the WebP you drop in and the PNG that comes out. What it cannot do is recover detail the WebP encoder already threw away. Most WebP files on the web are lossy, and a lossy image copied into a lossless format is still a lossy image.
Expect the PNG to be considerably larger, often three or four times the size. That is the cost of a format that writes every pixel out in full, and it is the reason to keep the WebP around if the file is going back on a website.
Transparency and animation#
Both formats have a full alpha channel, so a transparent WebP comes out as a transparent PNG with the same soft edges. There is no white box to crop off afterwards.
Animated WebP files are the one thing that does not survive. The browser hands this tool a single frame, so an animation converts to a still PNG of its first frame. If you need the animation, keep the original file.
Frequently asked questions#
Are my images uploaded anywhere?
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No. Your browser decodes and re-encodes each file locally, so the images never leave your device. The tool carries on working if your connection drops part way through.
Why is the PNG so much bigger than the WebP?
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PNG writes every pixel out losslessly, while most WebP files were compressed by discarding detail. Three or four times the original size is normal, and it is not a sign that anything went wrong.
Does transparency survive the conversion?
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Yes. PNG and WebP both store an alpha channel, so transparent and semi-transparent pixels come through unchanged.
What happens to an animated WebP?
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You get a still PNG of the first frame. PNG has no animation of its own, and the browser image decoder only hands over one frame, so keep the original if the movement matters.
Can I convert several files at once?
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Yes. Drop in as many as you like and each gets its own row with its own download button, or use Download all to save the whole batch.