WEBP to PNG
Convert WEBP images to PNG format instantly — free, private, no upload needed.
How to Use
- Drag and drop a WEBP file onto the drop zone, or click to browse.
- Preview the original WEBP and the converted PNG side by side.
- Click Download to save the PNG file.
When to Use This
- Opening a WEBP download in an editor such as an older Photoshop build, or a print tool whose intake list stops at PNG, JPG and TIFF.
- Preparing a transparent product cutout for a slide deck or document that renders PNG alpha correctly but shows WEBP as a broken image.
- Archiving a lossy WEBP you expect to edit repeatedly, since every later save as PNG adds no new compression damage.
Frequently Asked Questions
About This Tool
WEBP was built on the intra-frame coding from the VP8 video codec and can store an image either lossily or losslessly, with an alpha channel in both modes. That flexibility made it a default on the web, but plenty of desktop editors, older operating systems and print workflows still refuse to open a .webp file.
This converter hands the file to the browser's own WEBP decoder, draws the decoded pixels onto a canvas, and exports that canvas as PNG with toDataURL. PNG is lossless, so there is no quality setting to choose and nothing further is discarded at this step. Transparency carries across intact, because both formats support an alpha channel. The file is read locally through an object URL and no copy is sent to a server.
Notes & Limits
- The PNG inherits whatever a lossy WEBP already threw away. Converting sharpens nothing, and the resulting file is usually several times larger.
- Animated WEBP is not handled as animation; the canvas captures one frame, so the output PNG is a single still from the sequence.
- ICC color profiles and any EXIF or XMP block in the WEBP are not copied into the PNG, because the canvas export writes an entirely fresh file.
- Very large images can exhaust browser memory during export, since the PNG is assembled as a base64 data URL in memory before the download starts.