Convert WebP to PNG
Your files stay on this device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored on a server.
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How it works
- Drop your .webp files onto the bench, or pick them from your device.
- Press Convert. Your browser decodes the WebP and writes a PNG on this page.
- Download the PNGs individually, or take them all as a .zip.
WebP mostly turns up because you saved an image from a web page. Browsers have supported it for years and websites serve it because it is smaller than the JPG or PNG it replaced. The trouble starts the moment the file leaves the browser. Plenty of desktop software still will not open it: older versions of Photoshop and Office, most default photo viewers on older Windows and macOS installs, a lot of print shop drop boxes, e-book and courseware tools, and the odd corporate upload form. You end up with an image you can see in your browser and nowhere else.
PNG is the safest thing to convert it to. It is roughly as old as the web, it is readable by essentially everything, it is lossless, and — this is the part that matters if your image is a logo or an icon — it keeps transparency. WebP can store an alpha channel and so can PNG, so a cut-out graphic stays cut out.
One expectation to set: converting will not undo anything. Most WebP files on the web are lossy, compressed in much the same spirit as JPG. If detail was thrown away when the site published the image, the PNG faithfully preserves what is left, artifacts included. What you gain is a file that opens everywhere and will not lose anything further when you edit and re-save it.
The PNG will usually be several times larger than the WebP. That is the price of a format that never discards data.
Questions people ask
- Why can't my software open WebP in the first place?
- WebP was designed for the web and browsers adopted it long before desktop applications did. Many older programs were finished before it existed and never added support. Converting to PNG sidesteps the problem entirely.
- Is transparency preserved?
- Yes. Both formats support an alpha channel, so a WebP with a transparent background becomes a PNG with a transparent background. Nothing is filled in.
- What happens with an animated WebP?
- You get the first frame only, as a single still PNG. PNG has no equivalent animation format in common use, so the other frames cannot come along. If you need the animation, convert to GIF with a different tool.
- Will the PNG look better than the WebP?
- No. It will look identical. PNG is lossless, so it reproduces exactly the pixels the WebP decoded to — including any compression artifacts that were already there.
- Why is the PNG so much bigger?
- WebP was designed to make files small and usually discards detail to do it. PNG discards nothing, so the same picture takes considerably more space. Photographs grow the most; flat graphics and icons grow the least.
- Are the files sent anywhere?
- No. Everything happens inside this page using your browser's own WebP decoder. No upload, no server storage, nothing left behind when you close the tab.