Convert WebP to PNG
(No Upload)

A .webp file is an image in Google's WebP format. It is used very widely on the web because it produces smaller files than both JPEG and PNG at similar quality, which makes pages load faster. That is good for websites and mildly annoying for everyone else: save an image from a site today and you often end up with a .webp that the program you wanted to use it in will not open.

.png is the opposite trade. It is older, universally supported, lossless, and keeps transparency. Converting WebP to PNG is the usual fix when something refuses to accept a WebP.

Transparency is preserved

This is the main reason to choose PNG over JPG here. WebP images very often have transparent backgrounds, particularly logos, icons and product cutouts. PNG stores transparency natively, so the conversion keeps it exactly as it was, with no white box appearing behind your image.

If you convert the same file to JPG instead, the transparent areas have to be filled in, because JPEG has no way to represent them. Choose PNG whenever the image has a transparent background and you want to keep it.

Expect the file to get larger

PNG is lossless, meaning it stores the image exactly with no approximation. WebP usually is not. So a PNG converted from a WebP is commonly two to five times the size of the original, and on photographs it can be more. Nothing has gone wrong when you see this: you have swapped a compact modern format for a compatible older one, and size is the price.

Worth being clear about one thing: converting a lossy WebP to PNG does not restore detail that the WebP compression already discarded. The PNG is a perfect copy of the WebP's pixels, not of the original image the WebP was made from. Quality is preserved from this point forward, not recovered.

Why your browser saved a .webp in the first place

Modern websites serve WebP to browsers that support it, which is now nearly all of them, and JPEG or PNG to the rest. When you right click and save an image, you get whatever your browser was sent, which is why the same picture can save as .webp for you and .jpg for someone else. It is not something the site did wrong, and it is not something you can usually change from the save dialog.

What about animated WebP files

WebP can hold animation, much like a GIF. PNG cannot, in any format ordinary software recognises. Converting an animated WebP here gives you its first frame as a still image. If you need the animation itself, you want a WebP to GIF conversion, which is a different operation.

Nothing is uploaded

The conversion runs inside your own browser tab. Your file is read from your disk, converted by code already running on your machine, and written straight back out. It is never sent to a server, which means there is no queue to wait in, no upload progress bar, no account, no watermark, and nothing of yours sitting on someone else's hard drive afterwards. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it will still work.