WebP to PNG converter
If the WebP has a transparent background, PNG is the conversion that keeps it. Logos, stickers and cut-out images belong here rather than on the JPG page.
What survives the change
- Transparency survives exactly, including partly-transparent edges, which is what keeps a cut-out logo from getting a jagged outline.
- Nothing further is compressed away. PNG is lossless, so it stores precisely what the WebP decoded to.
- The file gets bigger, and what decides how much is the picture rather than the original file size. A flat logo has almost nothing for PNG to store badly, so it grows only slightly. A photograph is nothing but fine detail, and PNG keeps all of it.
The mistake this page exists to prevent
Most people converting a WebP just want a file their software will open, and reach for JPG. That works for photographs and quietly ruins anything with a transparent background: the see-through parts come out solid white, which is only obvious once the logo is placed on a coloured slide.
PNG is the format with the widest support that still stores transparency. Every piece of software that opens images at all opens PNG, and it has done since the late 1990s.
What happens to the see-through edges
The edge of a cut-out is not a line between opaque and invisible. It is a band of pixels a few wide that are partly transparent — 40 percent here, 80 percent there — and that band is the entire reason a good cut-out looks cut out rather than stamped out with scissors. Every question about this conversion is really a question about what happens to those pixels.
The answer is unusually clean, because of a design decision in WebP that few people know about. A lossy WebP stores its colour with VP8, which throws detail away, but it stores its alpha channel in a separate plane compressed losslessly. So even in a lossy WebP the transparency is already exact, pixel for pixel. PNG stores alpha per pixel too. The band comes across untouched.
What this page does not do matters as much. On the JPG conversion the picture is painted onto a white rectangle first, because JPG has nowhere to record transparency and black would be the alternative. Here nothing is painted underneath at all — the decoded image goes straight onto a transparent surface and out to PNG. There is no background colour to choose because there is no background.
One consequence is about order rather than settings: transparency is not recoverable once flattened. Convert the WebP to JPG and then that JPG to PNG and you get a PNG with a permanent white rectangle behind your logo. The PNG is a perfectly lossless copy of something already ruined. Come here first, from the WebP itself.
Converting a WebP to PNG
- PNG is already selected above.
- Drop your WebP images in, or click to browse.
- Download the result. It never left your device.
No background colour is offered because none is used — the transparent areas stay transparent all the way through.
Picking between PNG and the alternatives
Should I use PNG or JPG for my WebP?
PNG if the image has transparency, or is a logo, screenshot or drawing with hard edges. JPG if it is a photograph and the file size matters more than being exact.
Does converting to PNG improve the quality?
No, and no converter can. The WebP was already compressed lossily if it came from a website. PNG stops any further loss, but detail that was already discarded is gone.
My PNG is enormous. Did something go wrong?
Probably not. PNG stores photographs badly by design, and its size follows the pixel count rather than the size of the file you started from. If that is a problem and you do not need it lossless, stay on WebP — it keeps transparency too.
I already saved it as a JPG. Can I get the transparency back?
No. The JPG has a white background baked into its pixels and nothing can separate them again. Go back to the original WebP and convert that.
Nothing is uploaded
It runs on your device. Turn the network off mid-conversion and it still finishes — or check any converter yourself.
Free, and no account
No signup, no watermark, no upgrade prompt. No size cap beyond your own device, and up to 50 pictures a go.
If transparency is not what you came for
- WebP to JPG The image you saved from a website that nothing will open.
- HEIC to PNG For when the next tool in the chain insists on PNG.
- JPG to PNG When something downstream will only take a PNG.
- AVIF to PNG Keeps the transparent background that JPG would flatten.
Or open the image converter to pick any combination, and the image compressor when the problem is size rather than format.