Convert JPG to PNG
Convert JPG images to PNG free, in your browser. No upload, no account, no watermark.
Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.Change the format. Drop an image, a PDF or a Word document.
- JPG · PNG · WebP · Text · Word
- Word
- PDF · Text
Your files are processed by your own browser and never sent to a server. Open your browser's network tab and convert one, there is no upload to see.
How to convert JPG to PNG
- Drop your JPG files onto the box above, or paste them with Ctrl+V.
- Pick a quality. Around 90% is indistinguishable from the original for most images.
- Your browser does the work on your own machine.
- Save each file from its tile, or take them all at once.
What changes, and what does not
Transparency is not gained
PNG can store transparency, but a JPG has none to give it. Converting cannot invent a transparent background; that needs an editor and a decision about which pixels should go.
The file will usually grow
PNG stores every pixel exactly, including the compression artefacts already baked into your JPG. It preserves them faithfully rather than removing them, and it takes more space to do it. Converting cannot recover detail already discarded.
Colour
JPG: 16.7 million, with no transparency at all. PNG: up to 16.7 million, plus 256 levels of transparency.
JPG and PNG side by side
| JPG | PNG | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it came from | 1992, from the Joint Photographic Experts Group | 1996, designed as a free replacement for GIF |
| Throws detail away | Yes | No, every pixel is kept |
| Transparency | No | Yes |
| Animation | No | No |
| Where it opens | Everywhere, on everything, including hardware old enough to vote | Everywhere, without exception, since the late nineties |
| Best at | Photographs, and anything going somewhere you cannot predict | Screenshots, logos, diagrams and anything with text or hard edges in it |
How much smaller will the file be?
Expect it to grow, often several times over. PNG stores every pixel exactly, and the pixels it is storing include the compression artefacts your JPG already has. It is faithfully preserving damage rather than removing it.
Can I convert it back afterwards?
You can go back, and it will look the same, because PNG did not throw anything away. What you cannot do is recover the detail your JPG lost before it ever reached this page. That is gone whatever you convert it to.
About JPG
The universal photo format. Lossy, no transparency, opens absolutely everywhere.
About PNG
Lossless and keeps transparency, at the cost of much larger photographs.
Will the quality change?
PNG is lossless, so nothing is thrown away in the encoding. If the JPG was itself lossy, its existing artefacts are preserved faithfully. Converting cannot recover detail that was already discarded, and the file will usually get considerably larger.
Other conversions
JPG also converts to WebP, AVIF, PDF and Word.
PNG also comes from HEIC, WebP, AVIF, GIF and BMP.