Convert WebP to PNG

The conversion for when transparency matters

There are two ways out of a WebP file, and which one you want depends on a single question: is any part of the image see-through? For a photograph the answer is no, and converting to JPG gives you a smaller file that opens everywhere. For a logo, an icon, a sticker or anything cut out against a transparent background, JPG would flatten every see-through pixel to white — and this page exists so that does not happen to you.

PNG carries a full alpha channel, exactly like WebP does. Soft shadows, rounded corners and anti-aliased edges come through the conversion pixel for pixel.

Why you have a WebP you cannot use

Nearly every website now serves WebP to browsers, because the format is 25 to 35 percent smaller than the equivalents and pages load faster. Saving an image gives you what the site sent. The catch is everything outside the browser: older Photoshop versions, many print services, plenty of office software and a surprising number of upload forms still reject WebP outright. PNG has been understood by essentially everything for nearly thirty years.

The file will get larger — here is why

PNG is lossless: it stores every pixel exactly. The WebP you start from almost certainly is not — it stored a close approximation in very little space. Re-encoding that approximation exactly takes far more room, so a three-fold size increase is normal, and a photograph saved as PNG can grow much more than that. Nothing is wrong when that happens; it is what lossless storage costs.

Worth being straight about the reverse, too: converting to a lossless format does not recover quality. Detail the WebP encoder discarded is gone, and the PNG preserves the image exactly as it is now — artefacts included.

When JPG is the better destination

If the image is a photograph with nothing transparent in it, PNG buys you nothing except a heavier file. WebP to JPG produces something a third of the size that every program opens. The rule of thumb: graphics and transparency go to PNG, photographs go to JPG.

Batches, and where your files go

Drop in as many WebP files as you like — an icon set, an export folder — and take the results back one by one or as a single zip. Everything is decoded and re-encoded by your own browser: nothing is uploaded, there is no size limit and no queue, and the page keeps working with the connection switched off.

Animated WebP

WebP can hold animation, much like a GIF. PNG as produced here is a still format, so only the first frame survives. That is a limit of the destination rather than a fault in the conversion — if you need the motion kept, the video and GIF tools are the right drawer.