Convert WebP to PNG

How to convert WebP to PNG

1. Drop your WebP files into the box above, or click to browse. You can also paste with Ctrl+V.
2. Adjust quality or resizing under Conversion settings if you need to. The defaults suit most photos.
3. Conversion starts automatically and runs on your device — watch the progress bar for each file.
4. Download files individually, or grab everything as a ZIP.

What changes when you convert WebP to PNG

Almost everyone arriving at this conversion got here the same way: they right-clicked an image on a website, chose Save As, and ended up with a .webp file that their software refuses to open. WebP has been supported by every browser for years, but plenty of desktop applications — older Photoshop versions, many print workflows, a great deal of corporate software — never added it.

The conversion itself is clean. Both formats support per-pixel alpha, so transparency crosses over exactly. PNG is lossless, so it stores whatever the WebP decoded to without adding any degradation of its own.

The part worth being clear about is what PNG cannot do. If the WebP was lossy — which most WebP images on the web are — then detail was already discarded when it was created. Converting to PNG stores those already-degraded pixels with perfect fidelity. It does not recover anything. What you get is a large, lossless copy of a lossy image, which is why the file grows so dramatically: WebP's whole purpose was to be small, and PNG's whole purpose is to be exact.

Expect two to four times the size on photographs, and sometimes more. On flat graphics and logos — the kind of thing that was probably a lossless WebP to begin with — the growth is milder, because PNG handles large areas of uniform colour well.

Animation is the other limit. Animated WebP exists and is common for short loops that replaced GIFs. PNG has no animation in its base format, so an animated source converts to its first frame only. The tool says so rather than silently producing a still.

What is preserved

• The alpha channel, exactly — both formats carry full per-pixel transparency
• Pixel dimensions and every decoded pixel value
• Colour appearance, with no further loss added by the PNG step

What is lost

• Animation: an animated WebP converts to a still image of its first frame
• EXIF and XMP metadata, which PNG handles poorly and inconsistently
• The compression efficiency that made the file small in the first place

What is altered

• File size grows substantially — typically two to four times the WebP
• A lossy WebP stays lossy: PNG stores the already-degraded pixels perfectly, it cannot restore what WebP discarded

PNG support in browsers and operating systems

Checked on 2026-08-10. We re-verify this table every quarter.

When not to convert WebP to PNG

Do not convert if the destination reads WebP. Every current browser does, so for anything going onto a web page you are trading away most of the size advantage for nothing.

Do not convert a photograph to PNG when you only need it to open somewhere. JPG will be five to ten times smaller and, unless the image has transparency, visually identical. Use the WebP to JPG converter instead.

Do not expect the conversion to improve quality. A lossy WebP that already looks soft will look exactly as soft as a PNG, in a file several times larger.

Do not use it for animated WebP if you need the animation — only the first frame survives.

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