WebP to PNG
Choose your files and convert WebP to PNG right here. The conversion runs on your own device, so nothing is uploaded and nothing waits in a queue.
Files are converted on your device and never uploaded. All metadata is removed, including camera model and GPS position. The capture date is not kept either.
PNG opens everywhere: old versions of Office and Photoshop, printers, e-mail clients and photo managers that still will not take WebP. Transparency survives the conversion, and you can convert many files at once and take the result as a single ZIP.
Why WebP exists, and where it stops being convenient
Google published WebP to make web pages lighter, and at that it works: a WebP is commonly 25 to 35% smaller than a JPG of similar quality, and much smaller than the same picture as a PNG. Every current browser displays it, which is why so many sites now serve it by default.
The trouble starts once the file leaves the browser. Older versions of Office and Photoshop, plenty of print workflows, e-mail clients and photo managers either refuse it outright or need a plug-in installed first. Converting to PNG trades file size for a format that everything has understood since the 1990s.
What to expect from the converted file
Expect it to be several times larger. PNG compresses without losing anything and cannot approach what WebP achieves, so a 200 KB WebP photograph can easily come out above a megabyte. For screenshots, logos and flat-colour graphics the gap is much narrower, and the PNG is sometimes barely bigger at all.
Everything visible survives, including transparency through PNG’s alpha channel. What does not survive is the metadata, which is stripped, and animation, because a PNG written here holds a single frame.
Frequently asked questions
Will the file get bigger?
Usually yes, often several times over. WebP is built to compress harder than PNG, so the same picture needs more space once converted. That is the price of a format almost every program can open. If size matters more than compatibility, keep the WebP.
Is transparency kept?
Yes. PNG supports an alpha channel, so transparent areas stay transparent. Converting to JPG would fill them with white, which is why this converter saves as PNG.
What happens to animated WebP files?
The converter writes a still PNG, so only the first frame is kept and the file is marked in the list. To keep the animation, keep the original WebP or convert it to GIF.
Are my images uploaded anywhere?
No. Your browser reads the file and re-encodes it on your device. Your file is never sent to a server, which is why the tool keeps working even without a connection once the page has loaded.
What happens to metadata?
All of it is removed, including camera model and GPS position. That applies to the capture date as well, so photo apps will no longer know when the shot was taken.
Why did I end up with a WebP in the first place?
Almost always because you saved an image from a web page. Sites serve WebP to cut their page weight, and the browser saves what it was sent. The picture itself is ordinary; only the container is one that some desktop software still refuses to open.
Will converting lose quality?
Nothing is lost in this step, because PNG is lossless and stores exactly the pixels the WebP decodes to. What it cannot do is undo compression that already happened: if the WebP was saved in lossy mode, those artefacts are part of the image now and they come across into the PNG.
Would JPG be a better target than PNG?
For a photograph with no transparency, often yes, because a JPG of the same picture is far smaller than a PNG. PNG is the right choice when the image has transparent areas, sharp edges, screenshots or flat colour, or when you plan to keep editing it and would rather not add another lossy generation.