WebP to PNG Converter
Turn a WebP into a PNG any editor will open, with the transparency intact. Converted in your browser.
Drop a WebP file here
Up to 4.0 MB per file. Converted in your browser, never uploaded.
Free WebP to PNG
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When a WebP needs to become something you can actually edit, PNG is the answer: lossless, transparent, and supported by every piece of image software ever written. Drop it in and download the PNG.
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All free, all in your browser, no signup.
How to convert WebP to PNG
Three steps, no account, and a 4.0 MB ceiling per file.
Add your WebP
Drag it in or pick it from your device. Only WebP files are accepted here.
Hit Convert
PNG is preselected. Open the settings first if you want to change the quality.
Download the PNG
The converted file is ready straight away. Save it and carry on.
The short version
Why convert WebP to PNG?
PNG is the format to land on when the image has transparency and has to leave the browser.
WebP to JPG solves compatibility but destroys the alpha channel. WebP to PNG solves compatibility and keeps it, which is why it is the right conversion for logos, cutouts, stickers, and anything with a transparent background.
- Editing in desktop software: Every editor worth using opens a PNG. Not all of them open a WebP, and the ones that do often want a plugin first.
- Transparent assets: The alpha channel survives the trip, so nothing picks up a white rectangle.
- Handing files to someone else: PNG is the format nobody has to ask a question about.
- Anywhere the upload form is fussy: Print portals, marketplaces and internal admin tools tend to run years behind on accepted file types. PNG has been safe since 1996.
The one thing to be clear about before you start: this is a container swap, not a repair. PNG is a lossless format, which means it will store whatever it is given perfectly. It does not mean the thing it is given gets better on the way in.
Worth knowing: If the WebP was saved in lossy mode, PNG cannot bring back what that mode discarded. You get a lossless copy of the current pixels, artifacts and all, in a file that will usually be considerably larger than the WebP you started with.
Web Picture format
What is a WebP?
WebP is Google's attempt to stop making people choose. It has a lossy mode like JPG, a lossless mode like PNG, and transparency in both, all in one file type.
Google's own comparisons put lossy WebP at roughly 25 to 34% smaller than a JPG of comparable quality, and lossless WebP at about 26% smaller than PNG. On an image-heavy page that is the difference between a fast Largest Contentful Paint score and a slow one.
Browser support stopped being an argument years ago. Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, and Safari from version 14 onward all render WebP, which covers effectively everyone who will visit your site.
Where it still trips people up is off the web. Plenty of desktop software, older photo tools, print workflows, and a few upload forms will refuse a .webp file outright, which is the usual reason someone needs to convert one back.
Best for: Images you are publishing on a website, where page weight is the thing you are optimizing.
Portable Network Graphics
What is a PNG?
PNG is the lossless one. What goes in comes back out pixel for pixel, however many times you open and re-save it, and it carries real transparency.
It was built in 1996 as a patent-free answer to GIF, and it inherited GIF's best trick while fixing its worst limit: PNG supports a full 8-bit alpha channel, so a logo can sit on any background with soft, properly anti-aliased edges instead of a jagged cutout.
Because nothing is discarded, PNG is the safe container for images made of flat color and hard edges: screenshots, UI mockups, charts, diagrams, line art, and any graphic with text in it. Those are exactly the images JPG mangles.
The price is size. On a detailed photograph a PNG can easily be five to ten times larger than the equivalent JPG, because photographic noise is the worst possible input for lossless compression.
Best for: Screenshots, logos, diagrams, anything with text, and any image that needs a transparent background.
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Everything the WebP to PNG conversion needs, nothing it does not.
One file, two dropdowns, one button. The rest is your browser doing the work.
Converts in a blink
Your browser decodes and re-encodes the file locally, so a WebP becomes a PNG in about as long as it takes to read this.
Never leaves your device
No upload, no server, no copy of your image sitting in someone's bucket. Close the tab and it is gone.
You pick the quality
Default is 75%, which keeps files small. Push it to 100% when the detail matters more than the size.
Transparency survives
Both WebP and PNG carry an alpha channel, so transparent backgrounds cross over untouched.
No install, no signup
It is a web page. Nothing to download, no account to make, no watermark on the way out.
Works on your phone
Same tool, same speed on mobile. Convert a screenshot on the train and download it straight to your camera roll.
WebP to PNG: common questions
What people ask before converting WebP files to PNG.
Drop your WebP file into the converter at the top of this page, or click the button to pick one. PNG is already selected as the output, so you can hit Convert straight away.
When it finishes, the download button appears with the converted file. There is no queue, no email step, and no account.
Yes. Both formats have a full alpha channel, so transparent areas convert across exactly as they are. This is the main advantage over converting to JPG, which has no way to store transparency and fills it with white.
Because PNG stores every pixel exactly and WebP does not have to. If the original was lossy WebP, it got small by approximating; PNG has no such option, so it faithfully records the approximation at full cost. Expect a bigger file, and treat it as an editing copy rather than what you publish.
Photoshop 23.2 and later open WebP natively. Anything older needs the WebPShop plugin installed by hand, which is the point most people give up and go looking for a converter instead.
Converting to PNG first sidesteps all of it, and it is the better habit anyway: a PNG opens in Photoshop, Affinity, GIMP, Figma, Preview, Paint, and whatever your client is running, without anyone installing anything.
No, and it is worth being blunt about that because plenty of pages imply otherwise. PNG is lossless, so it preserves exactly what it receives. If the WebP was saved in lossy mode, the detail it threw away is already gone and no format can invent it back.
What the conversion does buy you is that nothing degrades from here. Every future save is lossless, so you can edit, crop and re-save a dozen times without the slow smearing that repeated JPG or lossy WebP saves cause.
Transparency decides it. If any part of the image is see-through, PNG is the only one of the two that can hold it; JPG has no alpha channel and will fill those areas with white.
If the image is a photograph with no transparency and you care about file size, JPG is the more sensible target. PNG is the right answer for logos, screenshots, cutouts, icons, and anything with text or hard edges.
You get the first frame as a still PNG. PNG has no animation to convert into, and the browser hands the converter a single frame to draw, so the motion is not preserved. If you need the animation, keep the WebP or export a GIF from a video tool instead.
One at a time here. The converter takes a single file, which keeps it fast and keeps the memory footprint small enough to work on a phone. Converting a handful in a row is quick, since there is no upload or queue between them.
No. The conversion runs inside your browser using the canvas your browser already ships with. Your file is read from your own device, converted in memory, and handed back to you.
Nothing is transmitted, which means nothing can be stored, logged, or leaked. It also means the tool keeps working if your connection drops halfway through.
4.0 MB per file. Above that, converting in the browser gets memory-hungry enough to crash the tab on a mid-range phone, so the tool declines the file rather than gambling with it.
If your image is larger, compress or resize it first and then convert it here.
Yes. The gear icon next to the Convert button opens the quality control, which starts at 75%. That is the setting where files stay small and the difference stays invisible on a photograph.
PNG has no lossy mode, so the setting has nothing to do here and every export is pixel perfect.
Yes. No signup, no watermark, no daily limit, and no ads on the page. Since the work happens on your device, converting an image costs us nothing to run, so there is nothing to charge you for.
Ready to convert your WebP?
Drop it in, pick PNG, download. No account, nothing uploaded.