PNG to JPG Converter
Convert PNG images to JPG right in your browser. Batch, private, no uploads, and a dropped folder adds up to 3,000 files at a time.
- Free, no account
- No watermark
- No usage limit
About the PNG to JPG Converter
Drop a PNG in and get a JPG back, converted right here in your browser. One file or a hundred, no upload, no sign-up, no size cap. Most people land here for one reason, they want a smaller file, and JPG usually delivers one without wrecking the picture.
JPG can't hold transparency. That's the one thing worth knowing before you convert. Any see-through part of your PNG has to be filled with a solid color, and that color is white. For a screenshot or a photo, fine, you'll never notice. But if your PNG is a logo or a cutout with a transparent background, that transparency becomes a white rectangle, and your clean logo suddenly has a box around it. That's just how JPG works, not a bug in the tool. If you need the transparency, JPG is the wrong target. Keep the PNG, or convert to WebP instead, which stays small and holds transparency. (This converter always fills with white, there's no matte-color picker, so treat white as the deal.)
How to use
- Drop your PNG onto the box, click to browse, or paste one straight from your clipboard. Add as many as you like.
- Leave the quality slider where it is for a solid size-to-clarity balance, or drag it down if a tiny file matters more than fine detail.
- Rotate or flip the image first if it needs it, those buttons are right there next to the slider.
- Hit Convert. It all happens on your device, so it's quick and nothing leaves your machine.
- Download each JPG on its own, or use Download all (ZIP) when you converted a batch.
You get the before and after size on every file, plus how much smaller the whole set came out. No queue, no waiting on a server to hand your image back.
Why do it in the browser instead of a site that uploads
Most free PNG-to-JPG converters take your file, send it to their server, convert it there, and mail it back. Your image, which might be a client's mockup or a personal screenshot, makes a round trip across the internet and lands on a machine you'll never see, all to swap one file format for another. This one refuses to work that way. The conversion runs inside your browser using WebAssembly, so the file never leaves your device. There's nothing to upload and nothing to delete afterward, because your image was never anywhere but your own computer.
There's a second privacy angle here. PNGs and phone photos carry hidden EXIF data, which can include the GPS location where a photo was taken and the exact camera or phone model. When you convert here, that data is stripped out automatically, so a snapshot you email or post doesn't quietly ship your coordinates along with it. Plenty of upload-based converters never bother to strip it, so that data stays put in the file they hand back.
Local also means no quotas. No daily limit, no cap on file size, and you'll never hit that "you've used your 3 free conversions" wall, because there's no server cost for anyone to ration. Drag a whole folder in and one count does apply, since the tool reads it down to the first 3,000 images and says on screen that it stopped there, so the rest go in on a second drop. The other ceiling isn't ours at all: a browser only hands a page a drawing surface so big, and it's a lot smaller on a phone than a laptop, so an enormous scan gets refused by name with the size it choked on rather than saved half empty. Convert one image or a couple hundred and grab them all as a single ZIP.
Quality: don't overthink the slider
JPG throws away some visual data on purpose. That's how it gets the file so much smaller than a lossless PNG. For photographs the loss is invisible at normal sizes, which is the whole reason every photo on the web is a JPG, so the default setting is fine for basically all of them and you can leave it where it is.
Where JPG actually bites is text. A screenshot of code, a chart with thin lines, a graphic with hard edges, compress that too hard and the edges go slightly fuzzy or pick up faint smudges around the letters. If your PNG is text-heavy and crispness matters, push the quality up high, or honestly just keep it as a PNG, that's the format PNG was built for. And the loss only runs one way. Once you've saved to JPG the discarded detail is gone. Converting back to PNG won't bring it back, it only stops any further loss. So hang onto the original PNG if there's a chance you'll need the pristine version.
A few things that make conversions cleaner
- Transparent PNG that won't sit on white? Keep it as PNG, or reach for WebP. White fill looks wrong against anything dark or colored, and you can't change the fill color here.
- Clearing phone storage? Drop the whole pile of screenshots in at once and pull the ZIP. Much faster than saving them one by one.
- Text or code screenshots want high quality, or just leave them as PNG.
- Keep the original around until you're sure the JPG is what you needed, since JPG loss doesn't undo.
Frequently asked questions
How can I tell if my PNG has transparency before I convert?
Open it against a dark or colored background instead of a white one. Transparency hides against white, so a logo can look perfectly solid in your file browser and then grow a white box the second it becomes a JPG. Most image editors flag see-through areas with a gray checkerboard pattern, that's the quick tell. If you find any and you need it kept, go with WebP or just leave the file as a PNG.
Does converting strip the metadata from my photos?
Yes. The location (GPS) and camera details tucked in the PNG's EXIF data get dropped during conversion, so the JPG you download doesn't carry them. That's a real privacy plus before you email or post a photo taken on your phone. Worth knowing the other way too, if you actually wanted to keep EXIF for a photo archive, this tool removes it.
Is there a limit on how many files or how big?
No. Everything runs on your own device, so there's no server quota to bump into. Convert a single 40 MB image or a folder of a couple hundred screenshots, same deal, and take the batch down as one ZIP.
Will anyone be able to tell it's not the original quality?
For a photo, no, not at a normal viewing size, because JPG's compression targets exactly the detail your eye tends to skip. For a hard-edged graphic or a text screenshot at heavy compression, maybe, you might catch slightly soft edges. Nudge the quality up if you're worried, or keep those particular images as PNG.
Can I convert on my phone?
Yes. It runs in any modern mobile browser, so you can turn PNG screenshots from your camera roll into JPGs right on an iPhone or Android, handy for shrinking them before you send.
What if I need the file under a specific size for an upload form?
Drag the quality slider down and watch the after-size on each file update as you go. Lower quality, smaller JPG. There's no automatic target-size mode on this converter, so you just nudge the slider until the number lands where the form wants it.