PNG to WebP Converter

What happens when you convert PNG to WebP

• The image is decoded and written as a lossy WebP at 90 percent quality, keeping transparency.
• PNG is lossless and WebP is not, so the file shrinks a lot, at the cost of some fine detail around sharp edges.

How to convert PNG to WebP online

1. Press "Choose PNG files" and select one or more files, or drag them onto the box. You can add files of any size your device can hold in memory.
2. Adjust the settings if you need to. Lower quality gives a smaller file.
3. Press "Convert to WebP". Images convert in a second or two each.
4. Save each WebP with its download button. Close the tab and every trace of the files is gone from memory.

Why convert PNG to WebP?

PNG files usually come from screenshots, logos, diagrams and anything with transparency. People convert them to WebP because WebP makes images much smaller for websites while keeping transparency.

In short, PNG is good at what it was made for, and WebP is the more practical choice when the file has to open, upload or print somewhere else. PNG opens in every browser and image viewer, while WebP opens in all current browsers; older Photoshop and Windows Photo versions cannot open it.

How to convert PNG to WebP on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android

On Windows

Open this page in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, drag your PNG files in from File Explorer, and press Convert. Each WebP is saved to your Downloads folder.

On a Mac

Safari, Chrome and Firefox all work. Drag the PNG files from Finder onto the drop zone and the WebP files land in Downloads.

On iPhone and iPad

Open the page in Safari and tap Choose PNG files. You can pick from Photos or from the Files app. The converted WebP appears in Files, in the Downloads folder; to put it in your photo library, open it there, tap Share and choose Save Image.

On Android

Open the page in Chrome, tap Choose PNG files and pick them from Files or your gallery. The WebP is saved to the Download folder, where any file manager can find it.

Best settings for PNG to WebP

WebP is lossy, so the Quality setting trades file size against detail. Best is 95, High is 90, Medium is 80 and Small file is 65 on the usual 0 to 100 scale. At High the difference from the PNG is invisible for photos; at Small file you may see softness around text and fine patterns.

The Maximum width setting shrinks large images before encoding. A 4000 pixel phone photo reduced to 1920 pixels loses three quarters of its pixels and most of its size, yet still fills a laptop screen.

PNG vs WebP: the differences

About PNG and WebP files

What is a PNG file?

PNG compresses without losing a single pixel, so screenshots and text stay razor sharp, but a photograph saved as PNG is often three to five times the size of the same photo as JPG.

What is a WebP file?

WebP can be lossy or lossless and still keep transparency, and at the same visual quality it usually lands 25 to 35 percent smaller than JPG. It is the reason so many images saved from websites turn out not to be JPGs.

PNG to WebP not working? Common problems

• Colours look slightly different. Browsers convert images to the standard sRGB colour space when they decode them, so wide-gamut and CMYK images can shift a little.
• A phone photo comes out upright even though it looked sideways elsewhere. That is correct: the rotation stored in the photo is applied during conversion, so the WebP is always the right way up.
• The file is bigger than expected. The WebP is usually far smaller, because lossy compression discards detail the PNG kept.

Convert PNG to WebP from the command line

If you work in a terminal, ImageMagick converts PNG to WebP in one line:

magick input.png -quality 90 output.webp

To convert every PNG in a folder at once, use magick mogrify -format webp *.png. The converter on this page does the same job without installing anything.