Convert PNG to WebP
Convert PNG images to WebP 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 PNG to WebP
- Drop your PNG 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
Detail is thrown away for the first time
PNG keeps every pixel exactly. WebP does not, and that is the point of it: the file gets far smaller because detail your eye is worst at noticing is discarded. Keep the original if you may need to edit it again.
Colour
PNG: up to 16.7 million, plus 256 levels of transparency. WebP: 16.7 million, plus transparency, in both lossy and lossless modes.
PNG and WebP side by side
| PNG | WebP | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it came from | 1996, designed as a free replacement for GIF | 2010, from Google, built on the VP8 video codec |
| Throws detail away | No, every pixel is kept | Yes |
| Transparency | Yes | Yes |
| Animation | No | Yes |
| Where it opens | Everywhere, without exception, since the late nineties | Every current browser. Some older desktop software and printers still refuse it. |
| Best at | Screenshots, logos, diagrams and anything with text or hard edges in it | Images on a web page, where it is roughly a third smaller than JPG at the same quality |
How much smaller will the file be?
Expect a large drop. A photograph saved as PNG carries every pixel exactly, and WebP does not need to, so falls of eighty or ninety per cent are ordinary. A screenshot or a logo will fall much less, because PNG was already efficient at flat colour and hard edges, and may even grow.
Can I convert it back afterwards?
Not to the same file, no. Going to WebP discards detail permanently, and converting the result back to PNG gives you a PNG of the damaged picture rather than the original. Keep the original if there is any chance you will need to edit it again.
About PNG
Lossless with transparency. Ideal for screenshots, logos and anything with text.
About WebP
Smaller than JPG at the same visible quality, and keeps transparency.
Will the quality change?
WebP is lossy, so the image is decoded and re-encoded and a little detail is dropped. At high quality this is invisible. Convert once from your original rather than repeatedly, because each pass compounds.
Other conversions
PNG also converts to JPG, AVIF, PDF and Word.
WebP also comes from HEIC, JPG, AVIF, GIF and BMP.