Rotate Image

How Rotate Image works

Choose the angle and every image you add is turned by that amount: 90 degrees clockwise for a photo lying on its left side, 90 degrees anticlockwise for one lying on its right, and 180 degrees for one that is upside down. Width and height swap for quarter turns, so a landscape photo becomes portrait.

Phone photos often store their rotation as a setting rather than turning the pixels, and some programs ignore that setting, which is why a picture looks right on the phone and sideways on a computer. This tool applies any stored rotation first and then your rotation, and saves the pixels turned for real, so the result looks the same in every program.

JPG and WebP images are saved again at 92 percent quality, which looks identical to the original for photos; PNG stays lossless. Other formats, such as GIF, BMP and AVIF, are saved as PNG. Rotating in the browser also leaves out the metadata, including any GPS location. Nothing is uploaded.

The rotated file keeps its name with -rotated added, so the original stays as it was. Rotation keeps every pixel: nothing is cropped, and the canvas grows or turns to fit the new orientation exactly. Several images can be rotated in one go, each by the same angle, which suits a batch of scans that all came out the same way. For a PDF, use Rotate PDF instead, which turns pages without re-saving the images in them.

Rotate Image options explained

When to use it

Rotate images when phone photos show up sideways on a computer or website, when scans came out upside down, when a document photo needs to be upright before converting it to PDF, or when a portrait picture was saved as landscape.

Rotate before cropping or resizing, so the crop box and dimensions refer to the image the right way up.

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.

Rotate Image troubleshooting

The photo is still sideways

Choose the other direction: a photo on its right side needs anticlockwise, not clockwise.

"could not be read as an image"

HEIC photos need converting to JPG first. Other files may be damaged.

The file got larger

JPGs are re-saved at 92 percent quality, which can be larger than a heavily compressed original. Use Compress JPEG afterwards if needed.

How to use Rotate 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 "Rotate". 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.