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Convert WebP to PNG Online, Free
The Tools Kit's free WebP to PNG converter turns a .webp image into a standard PNG file in a few seconds. It is the quick fix when you save a picture from a website and find it is a WebP that your photo editor, email client, or upload form will not accept. The PNG keeps the same width and height and any transparent background, and because PNG is lossless, no further quality is lost in the conversion.
The conversion happens on your device: your browser decodes the WebP, draws it onto a canvas, and exports the result as PNG. Nothing is uploaded, there is no signup, and there is no limit on how many images you convert.
How to Convert a WebP Image to PNG
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Add your WebP image
Click the upload area or drag a .webp file onto it. The image is opened by your browser and is not uploaded to a server.
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Keep PNG selected
PNG is already chosen as the output format. The same buttons can switch to JPG or WebP if you need a different format.
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Click Convert Image
The image is redrawn on a canvas at its original width and height and saved as a lossless PNG, with a preview shown below.
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Download the PNG
Click Download to save the file. It keeps the original file name with a .png extension.
The converter works on one image at a time. To convert another, click Clear or simply choose the next file.
WebP vs PNG: Which Format Should You Use?
WebP is a modern web format designed to make images smaller. It can be lossy, like JPG, or lossless, like PNG, and it supports transparency and animation. Every current browser displays it, which is why so many sites now serve WebP by default. The catch is software support outside the browser: older versions of photo editors, some email clients, print services, and upload forms still reject .webp files.
PNG has been around since 1996 and opens almost everywhere. It is lossless and keeps an alpha channel, which makes it the safe choice for logos, icons, screenshots, diagrams, and anything you plan to edit and re-save several times. Choose PNG when compatibility and exact pixels matter; keep WebP when the image is going on a website and file size matters most. If you need to go the other way, the PNG to WebP converter shrinks a PNG for faster pages.
Why Your PNG Is Larger Than the WebP
Expect the PNG to be bigger than the file you started with. A lossy WebP throws away detail to stay small, while PNG stores every pixel it receives, so a converted photograph is usually several times larger. Flat graphics, logos, and screenshots with large areas of one color compress well in PNG and grow much less.
The extra size does not mean extra quality: conversion cannot recover detail the WebP already discarded, so the PNG looks the same as the original, not sharper. If the file is too heavy for an upload limit, run it through the image compressor, reduce its pixel dimensions with the image resizer, or convert with WebP to JPG instead when the image is a photo without transparency.
What Is Kept and What Is Not
- Kept: the full pixel dimensions, the visible image, and transparent areas. No background color is added to PNG output.
- Not kept: EXIF, XMP, and embedded color profile data, because redrawing on a canvas copies only the pixels. That also makes the conversion a quick way to drop camera details; the EXIF remover strips the same data from a photo and saves it as a JPG.
- Animation: an animated WebP becomes a single still PNG frame. PNG output from this tool is never animated.
- File name: the download keeps your original name with the extension changed to .png.
The same converter can also export JPG or WebP from the buttons above, and the full image format converter starts from any supported image rather than WebP.
Common uses
- Opening an image saved from a website in an editor that does not read WebP
- Uploading a picture to a form, marketplace, or CMS that only accepts PNG or JPG
- Keeping a transparent logo or product cut-out transparent for design work
- Making a lossless master copy before repeated edits, so quality does not degrade with each save
- Preparing a PNG source for an icon, then turning it into a .ico file with the PNG to ICO converter
For cropping, resizing, rotating, and other conversions, browse the full set of free image tools.
WebP and PNG terms explained
| Term | What it means here |
|---|---|
| WebP | An image format introduced by Google in 2010 that supports lossy and lossless compression, transparency, and animation |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics, a lossless format from 1996 that supports transparency and opens in almost every program |
| Lossless | Compression that stores every pixel exactly, so saving again does not reduce quality |
| Lossy | Compression that discards detail the eye is unlikely to notice in exchange for a much smaller file |
| Alpha channel | The per-pixel transparency information that lets a logo or cut-out sit cleanly on any background |
| Canvas | The browser drawing surface this tool uses to decode the WebP and export it as PNG on your own device |
Frequently Asked Questions
Upload the .webp file, keep PNG selected as the output format, click Convert Image, then click Download. The PNG keeps the same pixel dimensions and the original file name with a .png extension.
Yes. The converter is free, needs no account, and has no daily limit. Because conversion runs in your browser, there is no server queue or upload wait.
No. The WebP file is decoded and redrawn by your own browser using a canvas, and the PNG is created on your device. The image is never sent to The Tools Kit or anyone else.
No further quality is lost, because PNG is lossless and stores every pixel the WebP decodes to. Conversion cannot restore detail that a lossy WebP already discarded, so the PNG looks the same as the WebP, not better.
Yes. PNG supports an alpha channel, and the PNG output does not add any background fill, so transparent areas in the WebP stay transparent. Only a conversion to JPG fills transparency with white.
WebP, especially lossy WebP, compresses far more aggressively than PNG. PNG stores every pixel losslessly, so a converted photo is usually several times larger, while simple graphics and screenshots grow less. Run the result through an image compressor if size matters.
Many websites serve images as WebP because the files are smaller and pages load faster. When you right-click and save an image, you get the format the site actually delivered, even if the page looked like it showed a JPG or PNG.
Only as a still image. The browser draws an animated WebP onto the canvas as a single frame, so the PNG contains one frame and no animation. PNG output from this tool is always a static image.
No. The converter handles one image at a time. Convert and download a file, then click Clear or choose the next image to convert another.
No. Redrawing the image on a canvas copies only the pixels, so EXIF, XMP and embedded color profile data in the WebP are not written into the PNG. The pixel dimensions stay the same.
Yes. The converter runs in any modern browser, including Safari on iPhone and Mac and Chrome or Edge on Android and Windows, with nothing to install. The browser must be able to open WebP, which all current versions can.
Reviewed by Raja Jahangir · Last reviewed: October 7, 2026
How do you convert WebP to PNG?
To convert a WebP image to PNG, upload the .webp file, keep PNG selected as the target, click Convert Image, and download the result. The image is redrawn in the browser and saved as lossless PNG, so transparency is preserved and no further quality is lost, although the PNG will usually be larger than the WebP.
Why can’t some programs open WebP files?
WebP was introduced by Google in 2010 and is supported by every modern browser, but older versions of Photoshop, Windows Photo Viewer, many email clients and some content management systems still cannot open it. Converting to PNG gives a file that opens everywhere, keeps transparency, and can be re-saved to WebP later without extra loss.