Flip Image

How Flip Image works

A horizontal flip mirrors the image from left to right, exactly as a mirror would. It is the fix for selfies from front cameras that save the picture reversed, and for scanned or photographed text that came out back to front. A vertical flip turns the image over from top to bottom, which is different from rotating it by 180 degrees: a vertical flip also reverses left and right.

The flip is done on a canvas in your browser at the image's full size, so nothing is cropped or scaled. JPG and WebP images are saved at 92 percent quality, which looks identical for photos, and PNG stays lossless, keeping transparency. Other formats are saved as PNG.

As with every image tool here, the files never leave your device, and the result is saved without the original metadata such as GPS location. Mirroring a photo of people or places changes how it reads, so keep the original too if you may need the true orientation later.

The flipped file keeps its name with -flipped added, so the original is never overwritten. Several images can be flipped at once, all in the same direction, each with its own download button, and PNG files keep their transparency. Flipping twice in the same direction gives back the original picture, and a horizontal flip followed by a vertical flip gives the same result as rotating by 180 degrees, so the three tools together cover every orientation a picture can have. For video, which needs re-encoding, the Rotate Video tool handles turning clips the right way round.

Flip Image options explained

When to use it

Flip images to un-mirror a selfie, to make text in a photo readable, to create a mirrored design for printing on transfer paper or T-shirts, to match the direction of a subject to a layout, or to make symmetric artwork.

For iron-on transfers and window decals, flip horizontally just before printing; the design reads the right way once it is applied.

About these image tools

The image tools run entirely in your browser. Rotating, flipping and cropping draw the picture on a canvas, the same drawing surface web pages use for graphics, and save the result with your browser's own image encoder, so no extra code has to download and each image takes a moment. The EXIF viewer loads exifr, a small open-source metadata reader, the first time it is used. The metadata remover works on the file's structure directly, removing the metadata sections without touching the compressed picture. Nothing is uploaded, and every tool handles several images at once, each with its own download button.

Flip Image troubleshooting

It looks rotated instead of flipped

A vertical flip of a symmetrical image can look like a 180 degree rotation. Check the text or an asymmetric detail.

"could not be read as an image"

HEIC photos need converting to JPG first.

Transparency turned white

That happens only for JPG, which has no transparency. Use PNG to keep it.

How to use Flip Image, step by step

1. Press "Choose images" or drag files onto the box.
2. Set the options if you need to; the defaults suit most uses.
3. Press "Flip". The work happens on your device.
4. Save the result with its download button.

Is it safe to do this online?

With most online tools, "online" means your file is uploaded to a company's server, processed there and kept for a while before it is deleted. Here it is not. The page downloads the tool's code to your browser, and your file is read and processed inside the tab on your own device. It is never sent to TapToConvert or anyone else.

You can check this yourself: once the page and its engine have loaded, turn off Wi-Fi and the tool still works. That also means there is no queue, no daily limit and no file size cap set by a server; the only limit is the memory your browser gives a single tab.