Image Converter

How to use the image converter

The image converter changes a picture from one format to another: JPG, PNG or WebP. It runs in your browser, so your images are never uploaded, and you can convert one file or a whole folder’s worth at once.

1. Add your images. Drop them on the box above or choose Select images. JPG, PNG and WebP work everywhere; GIF, BMP and AVIF work where your browser can open them.
2. Choose the format under Convert to: JPG, PNG or WebP.
3. Set the options: a quality level for JPG and WebP, and a background colour for transparent areas when you save as JPG.
4. Press Convert, then download the image, or all of them in one ZIP.

Converted files keep their original names with the new extension, so holiday.webp becomes holiday.jpg.

JPG, PNG and WebP compared

“Lossy” means some fine detail is thrown away to make the file smaller; “lossless” keeps every pixel exactly. Google’s WebP overview explains why WebP files are usually smaller than JPG and PNG at similar quality.

Which format should I choose?

• Choose JPG when you need a file that every website, form, printer and phone accepts, especially for photos. It’s the safe default for uploads.
• Choose PNG for logos, icons, screenshots and anything with sharp text or a transparent background, or when you’ll keep editing the image and don’t want quality lost each time it’s saved.
• Choose WebP for images on your own website: smaller files mean faster pages, and transparency still works.

The most common conversions have their own pages with tips for each: WebP to JPG, PNG to JPG, WebP to PNG and JPG to PNG.

Common reasons to convert an image

• A site won’t accept your file. Many upload forms only take JPG or PNG; images saved from the web are often WebP.
• A file is too big to send. A PNG photo can be several times larger than the same photo as JPG.
• You need a transparent logo. PNG or WebP keep the see-through background that JPG loses.
• Your website is slow. WebP versions of your photos load faster.
• An app can’t open the file. Older photo editors, office software and printers handle JPG and PNG most reliably.

Quality settings

When you save as JPG or WebP, the Quality slider (40 to 100) decides the balance between detail and file size. It starts at 90, which looks the same as the original to most people while still saving space. Lower values give smaller files with softer detail; 100 keeps the most detail but makes the largest files. PNG has no quality setting because it is always lossless.

If your goal is a specific file size, such as under 100 KB for a form, use compress image, which finds the right quality for you. To change the pixel dimensions, use the image resizer.

Transparent backgrounds

PNG and WebP can have see-through areas, such as the space around a logo. JPG can’t. When you convert a transparent image to JPG, the converter fills those areas with a colour you choose: white by default, or any colour from the picker, for example your website’s background. Converting to PNG or WebP keeps the transparency exactly as it is.

Need to remove a background in the first place? That’s a different job from converting; this tool keeps the pixels you give it.

Careful conversion, checked every time

• Formats are detected from the file’s content, not its name, so a PNG saved with a .jpg extension is still read correctly.
• Photos are turned the right way up. Phone photos often store their rotation separately; the converter applies it, so the result isn’t sideways.
• The size in pixels stays the same. Nothing is cropped or scaled.
• Every result is opened again and its dimensions are checked before you can download it.
• Camera and location data are removed, because the picture is saved fresh from its pixels. That makes converted photos safer to share.

iPhone HEIC photos

iPhones save photos as HEIC by default. Most browsers can’t open HEIC files yet, so this converter can’t either, and it tells you so instead of failing quietly. The simplest fix is on the iPhone itself: go to Settings › Camera › Formats and choose Most Compatible, and new photos are saved as JPG. For a photo you already have, a screenshot of it is saved as PNG, which converts here straight away. We plan to add HEIC support and will update this page when it’s live.

GIF and animated images

A GIF can be converted to JPG, PNG or WebP. If the GIF is animated, only its first frame is saved, as a still image. The same applies to animated WebP files. For a still frame from a short clip or a sticker, that’s usually exactly what you want.

Converting many images at once

Add as many images as your plan allows in one go: the converter works through them one after another, shows its progress, and gives you a single ZIP file at the end. Mixed formats are fine: a folder of PNG screenshots and WebP downloads can all become JPGs in one step. If two files would end up with the same name, the second gets a number added, so nothing is overwritten.

Converting images to put them in a document? JPG to PDF turns photos into one PDF directly.

Private: images stay on your device

Conversion happens in your browser. Images aren’t uploaded, stored or used to train AI, and closing the page removes them. You can even disconnect from the internet after the page loads and the converter keeps working. More in Trust and privacy.

Ask in plain words

• “Turn these WebP images into JPGs.”
• “Convert my logo to JPG with a white background.”
• “Make these 20 photos WebP for my website.”

Type it under the converter or in the AI workspace.

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