Convert WebP to PNG
Convert WebP 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 WebP to PNG
- Drop your WebP 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
Animation is lost
A WebP can hold many frames and a PNG holds one, so you get the first frame as a still image. A browser canvas cannot write animation back out, and a converter that claims to is doing it on a server with your file.
The file will usually grow
PNG stores every pixel exactly, including the compression artefacts already baked into your WebP. It preserves them faithfully rather than removing them, and it takes more space to do it. Converting cannot recover detail already discarded.
Colour
WebP: 16.7 million, plus transparency, in both lossy and lossless modes. PNG: up to 16.7 million, plus 256 levels of transparency.
WebP and PNG side by side
| WebP | PNG | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it came from | 2010, from Google, built on the VP8 video codec | 1996, designed as a free replacement for GIF |
| Throws detail away | Yes | No, every pixel is kept |
| Transparency | Yes | Yes |
| Animation | Yes | No |
| Where it opens | Every current browser. Some older desktop software and printers still refuse it. | Everywhere, without exception, since the late nineties |
| Best at | Images on a web page, where it is roughly a third smaller than JPG at the same quality | 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 WebP 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 WebP lost before it ever reached this page. That is gone whatever you convert it to.
About WebP
Google’s format: 25-35% smaller than JPEG at the same quality, with transparency.
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 WebP 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
WebP also converts to JPG, AVIF, PDF and Word.
PNG also comes from HEIC, JPG, AVIF, GIF and BMP.