JPG to PNG Converter
Convert JPG images to PNG right in your browser. Batch, private, no uploads, and a dropped folder adds up to 3,000 files at a time.
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- No usage limit
About the JPG to PNG Converter
Convert JPG to PNG right here, free, no upload and no sign-up. Drop in one file or a stack of them, hit Convert, and each image comes out as a PNG on your own machine. Do a batch and download the lot as one ZIP.
PNG usually isn't an upgrade over JPG, whatever the format blogs imply. Convert a plain photo and you land on a file three to five times bigger that looks identical. People convert for one of two real reasons. They need a format that can hold transparency, or they want a lossless copy that survives repeated edits without degrading. If neither of those is you, PNG is the wrong target and you can keep the JPG. If one of them is, this does the conversion cleanly and never sends your file off to anyone's server to get it done.
How to use
- Drop your JPG onto the box, or click to browse. Already copied an image somewhere? Paste it straight in with Ctrl+V.
- Want it rotated or flipped on the way out, use the transform buttons. Otherwise there's nothing to set. PNG is lossless so there's no quality dial to second-guess.
- Hit Convert. Everything runs on your own machine, which is why it's fast and why nothing gets sent anywhere.
- Download each PNG on its own, or use Download all (ZIP) when you ran a batch.
The background doesn't disappear on its own
Converting a JPG to PNG cannot make the background transparent. A JPG stores a solid color in every pixel, background included, and switching formats doesn't reach in and decide which pixels you meant to erase. What you get is the same picture, white box and all, sitting in a format that is now capable of transparency.
That capability is the whole point, but it's step one, not the finish. To actually cut out the background you convert to PNG first, then run the result through a background remover or open it in an editor like GIMP or Photoshop and erase it there. The PNG can hold a transparent area, but it won't create one for you. Plenty of tools let you believe the format swap does it for you, and then you're staring at a logo that still has its white rectangle.
Your JPG is probably carrying its location
A photo straight off a phone is not just an image. Tucked inside the JPG is a block of EXIF metadata, and it often includes the GPS coordinates of exactly where the shot was taken, the phone model, and the date and time down to the second. Most online converters upload your file to a server to do the work, which means that location data rides along to a machine you don't control, and the converted file frequently keeps it too.
This one works differently. The conversion happens on your own device, so the image is never sent anywhere, and the EXIF is stripped out automatically as it becomes a PNG. No GPS, no camera model, no timestamp baked into the file you hand off. If you have ever posted a photo and worried it might reveal your home address, this handles that for you without you having to think about it. It's the kind of thing a server-based converter can't really promise, because your file is already sitting on their server before any promise kicks in.
When PNG is the wrong call
Since PNG keeps every pixel exactly, a detailed photo gets big. A 3 MB JPG can come out as a 15 MB PNG with zero visible improvement, because the detail the JPG threw away long ago isn't coming back. PNG can't recover what the JPG already discarded, it only prevents any further loss from this point on. So if your goal is a smaller file for a website or an email, PNG is the wrong direction. WebP stays small and still supports transparency, which is usually the better move there.
Where PNG genuinely fits: screenshots, logos, icons, line art, anything with sharp edges or text that JPG tends to smear into faint halos. Those come out crisp and stay crisp. And if you've got a stack of them, drop them all in together, the converter runs the whole batch and hands you one ZIP instead of making you save twenty files by hand. Rotate or flip anything that came in sideways while you're at it.
Frequently asked questions
Can I convert a JPG I copied, without saving it first?
Yes. If you've copied a JPG somewhere (from a web page, say), click into the tool and paste with Ctrl+V and it loads without you saving a file to your device first. It behaves exactly as if you'd dragged the file in, then you convert and download as normal.
Does rotating or flipping the image cost any quality?
No. A 90-degree rotation or a horizontal or vertical flip just rearranges existing pixels, nothing gets re-compressed or softened. It's a clean operation, so use it freely if a photo came in on its side.
Is there a limit on how many files or how big they can be?
No fixed cap on files you hand over yourself. Because the work happens on your device rather than a rented server, the only real limit there is your own hardware, and a big batch of high-resolution photos will lean on your machine's memory and take a moment. There's no daily quota and no paywall waiting at file twenty. Drop a whole folder in and one number does apply, since it gets read down to the first 3,000 images, the tool says on screen that it stopped there, and the rest go in on a second drop.
A JPG of mine looks like it has a transparent area, will that survive the conversion?
No, and it's a common surprise. JPG has no way to store transparency, so whatever looked see-through was actually flattened onto a solid color (usually white) the moment the file was saved as JPG, and the PNG simply inherits that solid color. There is nothing to recover, because the transparency was already gone before you started.
Can I turn the PNG back into a JPG later?
Sure. Nothing here is one-way. If you later need a smaller JPG again you can convert it back with an image format converter, though remember JPG re-compresses every time it saves, so hang on to a copy of whichever version you treat as the master.
Will the PNG open everywhere a JPG does?
Yes. PNG is one of the most widely supported image formats there is, so email, web pages, office documents, phones, and design tools all read it without complaint. If anything, a form that rejected your JPG is more likely to accept the PNG, not less.
Does the converted PNG keep the original size and resolution?
Yes. The conversion changes the format, not the dimensions. A 2000 by 1500 JPG comes out as a 2000 by 1500 PNG. This tool doesn't resize on its own, so if you need smaller dimensions, do that as a separate step with a resizer.