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Where these formats come from
Each of these formats was written to solve a different problem. JPEG arrived in 1992 from the Joint Photographic Experts Group and was built for photographs: it discards the detail the eye is least likely to miss, which is why a photo shrinks enormously and why text in a JPEG looks smudged. PNG was written in a hurry in 1996, after the company holding the patent behind GIF began charging for it; it is lossless and has real transparency, which is why logos and screenshots belong in it. WebP came from Google in 2010 and does both jobs, typically a quarter smaller than either. BMP is Microsoft's plain format with no compression at all, and HEIC, Apple's default since 2017, borrows video compression to store a still at about half the size of a JPEG.
Where you meet them
Photographs travel as JPEG or, straight off a recent iPhone, as HEIC. Anything with sharp edges — screenshots, logos, diagrams, text, anything needing a transparent background — belongs in PNG, where JPEG would blur the edges. WebP is what a modern website serves to save bandwidth. BMP survives mostly inside Windows software and in places where a program wants pixels with no decoding at all.
Questions people ask
Should I save this as PNG or JPEG?
Look at the edges. A photograph has no hard edges, so JPEG's way of discarding detail is invisible and the file ends up a fraction of the size. A screenshot, a logo, a chart or anything with text has hard edges, and JPEG leaves a visible halo around every one of them — that is where PNG belongs, even though the file is larger. If the image needs a transparent background, PNG is the only choice of the two.
Why will nothing open my HEIC photos?
Because HEIC is newer than most of the software people have. It has been the iPhone default since 2017, but Windows needs an add-on to show it, many Android phones will not, and a great deal of web software still rejects it outright. Converting to JPEG is the usual answer: the photograph is unchanged to the eye, the file is roughly twice the size, and everything made in the last thirty years can open it.
Does the file lose quality?
It depends on what the two formats can hold. Converting between formats that store the same thing — a PNG to a BMP, a WAV to a FLAC — loses nothing. Converting into a format that throws information away to save space, such as JPEG or MP3, loses a little every time, and converting back does not bring it back. Where a choice exists, this page errs towards keeping the original quality rather than making the smallest file.
Is my file uploaded anywhere?
No. The conversion happens inside your browser, on your own machine; the file never leaves it and there is no server here that could receive it. That is why a large file is limited by your own memory rather than by an upload, and why nothing you convert can appear in anybody's logs — including ours. The audio and video tools do fetch their conversion engine from this site the first time you use them, some thirty megabytes once; after that the work still happens entirely on your machine.
Why people convert WebP to PNG
You save a picture from a web page, and what lands in your folder is a WebP. You try to open it in an older editing program, to attach it to a document, to upload it to a form or to send it to a printer, and the answer is that the format is not supported. WebP is a modern picture format that browsers use to make pages lighter, but a great deal of software outside the browser still expects the familiar ones. PNG is the safest of those: it is understood almost everywhere, it keeps transparency and it never degrades. That is why people convert WebP to PNG: they have a picture in a format that something refuses to read, and they need one it will accept.
The situations are everyday. A logo saved from a website that has to go into a presentation. A product picture that a marketplace will not accept in its current form. A picture for a text document, which opens the file as an unknown. A graphic for an editing program that predates WebP. In every case the picture is fine and the format is the problem.
This page converts WebP to PNG in your browser. Your picture is redrawn once at its original size and saved as PNG. Nothing is resized, and the file never leaves your device. Below you will find how it works, what is kept, what to expect from the size of the result and what the conversion cannot do.
How the conversion works
Redrawn once at its original size
Your WebP is opened inside your browser, drawn onto a canvas at its own width and height and saved as PNG. The picture is redrawn once, and nothing is resized, so a picture of 1000 by 600 pixels is still 1000 by 600 pixels afterwards. Nothing is sent to a server, so there is nothing to wait for and nothing to delete.
PNG stores every pixel
PNG is a format that keeps every pixel exactly. When your browser decodes the WebP, it works out the colour of each pixel, and the PNG records those colours without any further loss. From this point on, the picture can be opened, edited and saved as many times as you like without degrading.
Why the browser does the work
Every current browser can read WebP, and it can also write PNG. Using the browser to do both steps means that the picture never needs to leave your computer, and the conversion works on any device that can open this page.
What is kept
Every pixel as the WebP had it
Every pixel is kept exactly as the WebP had it. What you see in the PNG is what the WebP showed, with no additional softening, no extra blocks and no change of colour.
The exact dimensions
The width and height are kept. The PNG is the same size in pixels as the WebP, so it fits in the same place without changing a layout.
The transparency
Transparency is kept. If the WebP had a see-through background, so does the PNG, which is important for logos, icons and cut-out product pictures that must sit on top of other colours.
What you should know before you convert WebP to PNG
The PNG is almost always larger
The PNG almost always comes out larger, often several times larger, because it stores every pixel in full and cannot win back what WebP already threw away. A WebP of 200 kilobytes may become a PNG of a megabyte or more. This is not a defect. It is the price of a format that never loses anything.
What was lost stays lost
What was lost when the WebP was made stays lost. If the WebP was a lossy one, the detail that was discarded then is gone, and the PNG will not bring it back. The conversion only stops any further loss. If the original PNG or JPG still exists somewhere, use that for the best quality.
Animated WebP keeps only its first frame
An animated WebP keeps only its first frame. A PNG here is a single still picture, so the movement is lost. If you need the animation, keep the WebP, or use a tool made for animations.
How to convert WebP to PNG here
Add your picture
Drop the WebP onto the page or pick it from your device. It is opened inside your browser and is not uploaded.
Convert
Press the button. A picture takes a moment, and a large one takes a little longer. Leave the page open until it is done.
Download and check
Download the PNG and open it in the program that refused the WebP. Make sure it displays correctly, in particular the transparent areas.
A closer look at WebP and PNG
Where the two formats come from
PNG appeared in the mid-nineties as a free, patent-clear format that stores pictures without loss, and it became the standard for logos, screenshots and graphics. WebP was introduced by Google in 2010 to make the web faster. It can store a picture with a small loss, or without any, and it supports transparency and animation. Browsers adopted it widely; other software has been slower.
Why you rarely gain quality going this way
The usual direction is from PNG to WebP, to make a file lighter for the web. The opposite direction, as when you convert WebP to PNG, is about compatibility. The picture does not become better. It becomes more portable.
Lossy and lossless in a sentence
A lossy format throws information away to save space and cannot get it back. A lossless format keeps everything it is given. If what it is given is already lossy, it keeps that, and nothing more.
Common situations in detail
Documents and presentations
Older versions of word processors and presentation programs may not place a WebP in a document. Convert WebP to PNG, insert the PNG, and it behaves like any other picture.
Editing programs
Many editing programs have only recently learned to open WebP, and some still cannot. A PNG opens in all of them, and keeps its transparency for further work.
Marketplaces and forms
Some upload forms accept only JPG and PNG. A WebP you saved from a site will be rejected until you convert it. If the form wants a JPG, WebP to JPG is the shorter route.
Printing
Print shops and desktop publishing programs prefer well-known formats. A PNG is safe to send, and it does not hide any surprises.
Practical advice before you convert WebP to PNG
Check whether it is animated
If a WebP moves in your browser, only its first frame will cross to PNG. Decide whether a still picture is what you want.
Find the original if you can
If you know where the picture came from, an original PNG or JPG may exist, with more detail than the WebP. Start from that when quality matters.
Expect a bigger file
Make sure the PNG will fit where you need it. If a form has a size limit, a PNG may exceed it, and a lighter format or a compressed copy may be better.
Keep the WebP
The WebP is the small one. Keep it for the web, and use the PNG only where the format is demanded.
Questions people ask before converting
Will the quality improve?
No. The PNG has every pixel the WebP had, and no more. What was lost when the WebP was made stays lost.
Why is the PNG so much bigger?
Because PNG stores every pixel in full, while WebP compresses it. Several times the size is normal.
Will the transparency stay?
Yes. A see-through background in the WebP is a see-through background in the PNG.
What happens to an animated WebP?
Only its first frame is kept, as a still picture.
Is my picture uploaded?
No. The conversion runs in your browser and the picture never leaves your device.
Can I turn the PNG back into a WebP?
Yes, with PNG to WebP, which makes the file lighter again, with a small loss.
Choosing wisely when you convert WebP to PNG
PNG or JPG?
If the picture has transparency or sharp lines, choose PNG. If it is a photograph and a small file matters more, WebP to JPG gives a lighter result. Transparency does not survive in JPG.
Think about the next step
If you will edit the picture, PNG is a good working format, since it does not degrade when you save. If you only need to show it, any format that opens will do.
Keep a note of the source
If you saved the picture from a website, note the source and the licence, so that you know the terms under which you may use it.
Getting a good result after the conversion
Open it where you need it
Test the PNG in the program or on the form where it must work. Look at the edges, the transparent areas and the colours.
Compress it if it is heavy
If the PNG is too large, compress PNG reduces the weight and keeps the pixels' appearance. It is a good second step for web use or for forms with a limit.
Name the file clearly
Give the PNG the same base name as the WebP, so you can tell which belongs to which, and store the two in separate folders.
Understanding file size when you convert WebP to PNG
A worked comparison
People are often surprised by how much heavier the PNG is. The reason is simple. WebP, in its lossy form, describes a picture as a rough shape and a set of corrections, and drops the corrections that the eye hardly sees. PNG has no such shortcut: it must record the colour of every pixel, and then squeeze the list with a method that never changes a value. A photograph has millions of slightly different colours, so the list cannot be squeezed far. A flat logo has big areas of one colour, which squeeze well, so its PNG stays small.
What decides the final size
Three things matter: the number of pixels, the amount of detail and the kind of picture. A large photograph can produce a PNG of several megabytes. A small logo may produce one of a few kilobytes. If you convert WebP to PNG and the file is bigger than you can use, the cure is not a different setting here, because PNG has none; it is to reduce the number of pixels, or to choose JPG when transparency is not needed.
Reducing the weight afterwards
When the PNG is too heavy for an upload form or an email, compress PNG can lower the weight without visibly changing the picture. Try it before you give up on the format.
When the size does not matter
For a picture you will print, edit or archive, size matters little, and PNG is the right choice. Disk space is cheap, and a faithful file is worth more than a small one.
Keep the lighter copy for the web
If the picture will also appear on a website, keep the WebP for that purpose. The two formats serve different jobs: the PNG for the programs that need it, the WebP for fast pages.
Privacy and handling
Why local conversion matters for pictures
Pictures often show people, places, documents and screens that are private. Many online converters upload your file to a server, process it and send back the result, and for a while a copy lives on a machine you do not control. Here your own browser does the work, so the picture stays on your device.
What happens when you leave
When you close the page, the converted picture disappears from the browser, so download it first. Nothing about your picture is kept.
If something goes wrong
The PNG has a black or white background
Some programs show transparent areas in a solid colour. Open the PNG in an editor that displays a chequerboard for transparency to confirm that it is really there.
The picture looks the same as the WebP, with blocks
Lossy WebP leaves faint blocks around edges, and the PNG records them faithfully. Starting from the original is the only way to avoid them.
The page freezes with a very large picture
Everything runs on your device, and a huge picture needs memory. Try again on a computer, or reduce the picture first.
Related tools
The same family of tools covers the neighbouring jobs. To go the opposite way, use PNG to WebP. For the other common format, WebP to JPG and JPG to WebP do the same, and PNG to JPG and JPG to PNG switch between those two. To turn the result into a document, PNG to PDF is at hand, and rotate PNG turns a picture that came out sideways.
A worked example
Say you saved a company logo from a website, and it arrived as a WebP of 40 kilobytes. Your presentation program will not insert it. You drop the file here and press the button. A moment later you download a PNG of about 150 kilobytes, the same size in pixels and with the same transparent background. You insert it into the slide, and it sits on the coloured background just as it did on the website. The WebP stays in your folder.
A short checklist
Before converting
Check whether the WebP is animated. Look for an original. Make sure a larger file is acceptable.
While converting
Stay on the page until the file is ready.
After converting
Open the PNG where you need it, check the transparency and compress it if it is too heavy.
Common mistakes
Expecting better quality
Do not convert WebP to PNG hoping for a sharper picture. It cannot restore what the WebP discarded.
Converting an animation
Only the first frame crosses. If you need the movement, keep the WebP.
Deleting the WebP
Keep it. It is the lighter copy, and it is the one to use on the web.
Your picture stays on your device
The conversion happens locally. Your picture is read by your own browser, redrawn there and handed back as a PNG. Nothing is uploaded, so no copy ends up on a server and nobody else can see it. For private pictures, that is the safe way to convert WebP to PNG.
Summary
To convert WebP to PNG here, drop the picture and press the button. The picture is redrawn once at its original size and saved as PNG. Nothing is resized, and the file never leaves your device. Every pixel is kept exactly as the WebP had it, together with the exact dimensions and the transparency. The PNG almost always comes out larger, often several times, because it stores every pixel in full and cannot win back what WebP already threw away. What was lost when the WebP was made stays lost; this only stops any further loss. An animated WebP keeps only its first frame.