Convert WebP to PNG
.webp images saved from the web that your editor won't open? Convert them to PNG with transparency preserved, in seconds.
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WebP is great for the web, but it still trips up editors, legacy systems and upload forms that only accept PNG or JPG. The conversion runs locally, with transparency (alpha channel) preserved in the final PNG.
Need the opposite direction to make your website lighter? Use the JPG to WebP converter — you'll find every shortcut in the Tools section.
How it works
PNG is already selected, and PNG has no quality setting — so this is genuinely three steps with nothing to configure.
Add the .webp files
Drag them in, pick them from a folder, or hit Ctrl+V to paste an image you copied from a web page. The page decodes what is actually inside the file, so a WebP carrying the wrong extension still works.
Notice that quality is switched off
The slider is grayed out and reads lossless, with a note underneath explaining why: PNG discards nothing, so there is no quality argument to pass. The format bar is the one control still live here.
Generate and download
Click Generate images. Transparency comes through intact, each file keeps its original base name, and the whole queue can leave as a .zip. Expect the PNG to be bigger than the WebP.
PNG cannot give back what WebP already discarded
A lossy .webp has already discarded detail; that is how it got small. Converting to PNG re-describes the image the WebP encoder produced. It does not reconstruct the image that existed before that encoder ran.
PNG then stores every pixel exactly, artifacts included. Google's WebP FAQ is plain about the consequence: capturing a lossy source in a lossless format typically results in a larger file. The You saved counter at the bottom of the page will sit at zero for the whole batch. That is correct arithmetic, not a bug.
There is one clean exception. Some designers export lossless WebP deliberately. Convert one of those and no compression loss is added on the way to PNG.
What still refuses a .webp in 2026
Browsers are not the problem: per caniuse (September 2026), WebP displays in Chrome from version 32, Edge from 18, Firefox from 65 and Safari from 14 (WebP and AVIF for websites has the full table). The friction is all outside the browser, which is why people arrive here at all.
- Desktop editors and viewers, where support is decided program by program and version by version. Check the documentation of the one that refused the file.
- Upload validators written against a fixed allowlist of extensions or MIME types. If the list predates WebP, no amount of correct file is going to get past it.
- Office suites, print shops and internal tools that publish a list of accepted formats with no WebP on it.
- Email: when caniemail tested it in 2021, Outlook for Windows from 2007 to 2019 showed no WebP, and Gmail swapped the file for a JPG.
Choose JPG instead when nothing is transparent
PNG is the right target when the image has an alpha channel — a logo, a cut-out, an interface element with rounded corners. All of that survives the conversion untouched.
If the .webp is just a photograph, PNG makes it heavy for no return; the panel itself warns that PNG is lossless and photos may get larger. Click JPG on the format bar and compare the sizes on the card. Anything that was transparent gets filled with white, which the PNG to JPG page goes into properly.
What comes out flattened
A WebP file can hold more than a single static picture. A PNG produced from it holds one frame and one color interpretation.
- Animated .webp: only the first frame is read.
- An embedded color profile: it is not copied into the PNG, so check the colors in Compare if the artwork depends on it.
- EXIF and XMP blocks riding inside the WebP: dropped, along with anything else that is not pixels.
Sometimes you do not need to convert at all
If your browser's right-click menu offers Copy image next to Save image as, use it: pasting the picture straight into a document or an editor skips the whole problem.
The same trick works here: hit Ctrl+V on this page and the pasted image joins the queue exactly like a dropped file. Handy when the picture is on screen but you never actually saved it anywhere.
Frequently asked questions
Why convert WebP to PNG?
Compatibility with software that cannot open WebP, while keeping transparency — which converting to JPG would destroy.
Is transparency preserved?
Yes. PNG has a full alpha channel, so transparent areas stay transparent.
Will the file get bigger?
Usually, yes. PNG discards nothing, and Google's WebP FAQ notes that storing a lossy source in a lossless format typically results in a larger file. The card shows both sizes.
When should I choose JPG instead?
When there is no transparency and you want a small file. The settings panel says as much: PNG is lossless, and photos may get larger.
Will the PNG look better than the WebP did?
No. Identical at best. Format conversion is a translation, not a repair — there is no information left in the file to recover. If the source looks soft or blocky, the PNG will look soft or blocky in exactly the same places, in what is typically a larger file.
The file is named .jpg but nothing will open it. Is it really WebP?
It might be: a file name is not proof of what is inside. Drop it here anyway. Decoding is done by your browser from the file's contents, and if a thumbnail appears in the queue, the file will convert.
My PNG opens with a gray checkerboard behind it. Did something go wrong?
No, that is how image editors draw transparency — it means the alpha channel came through correctly. Place the PNG over any background and the checkerboard is not part of it. If you want a real solid background baked in, convert to JPG instead and the transparent areas become white.