Convert WebP to PNG
Need a lossless PNG with transparency? Convert WebP images to PNG right in your browser — instant and private.
How to convert WebP to PNG
Convert WebP to PNG and keep transparency
PNG is the format most design and editing tools are happiest with, and it supports full transparency. Converting a WebP to PNG gives you a file that opens in older editors, office programs and slide decks that do not read WebP, while every transparent pixel stays transparent. A logo, an icon or a cut-out product photo keeps its clean edges and sits on any background without a white box around it.
Drop the WebP files on the tool above with PNG selected under Convert to. Each image is decoded in your browser and saved again as PNG with the same width and height and the same name, ending in .png. Nothing is uploaded, and you can convert up to 30 files in one go, each up to 50 MB, then download them one at a time or all together as a ZIP. The original WebP files stay as they were.
PNG is lossless: what that means for file size
Lossless means the PNG stores every pixel exactly as it was decoded from the WebP. No new compression artefacts are added, so you can open, edit and save the PNG as many times as you like without it getting worse. That makes PNG a good working copy for editing.
The price is size. WebP was made to be small, and a lossy WebP photo turned into a lossless PNG often becomes several times larger, because PNG has to describe every pixel exactly, including the noise in a photo. Flat graphics with a few colours, such as logos, diagrams and screenshots of text, grow much less, because PNG is good at storing large areas of the same colour.
Converting to PNG cannot bring back detail that was already lost when the WebP was made. If the WebP looks soft or blocky, the PNG will show exactly the same; it only stops further loss from here on.
A quick way to judge the result is the size shown in each row. If a small WebP turned into a PNG of several megabytes, it was a photo, and a JPG would be the more sensible format for sharing it. If the PNG is only a little larger, it was a graphic, and PNG is a good home for it.
When to pick PNG over JPG for a WebP
Pick PNG when the image has transparency you want to keep, when it is a graphic with sharp edges and text, or when you plan to edit it further. Pick JPG when the image is a photo that just has to open everywhere and stay reasonably small, and transparency does not matter. In that case convert WebP to JPG instead; transparent areas become white there.
If the PNG turns out heavier than you would like, compress PNG makes PNG files smaller, also in your browser. And if the file only has to work on the web, keeping the original WebP is often the smallest option of all.
An animated WebP becomes a single still PNG, because the conversion keeps one frame. Everything else about the picture, its pixels, colours and transparent areas, carries over as it was decoded.