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WebP to PNG

Convert WebP images to PNG with transparency intact — for editors, design tools, and older software that still refuses to open a .webp file.

Runs entirely in your browser. Your files never leave your device.

Why you ended up with a WebP

Almost every WebP file sitting on a desktop got there the same way: someone saved an image from a website. Browsers have shipped WebP support for years and site owners use it because it is roughly a third smaller than the equivalent PNG, so what looks like an ordinary picture on the page arrives on disk with an extension half your software has never heard of. Older versions of Photoshop need a plugin, plenty of print and slide tools reject it, and some Windows apps show nothing but a blank thumbnail.

PNG is the safe landing place. It is lossless, it carries a full alpha channel, and essentially nothing made in the last twenty-five years fails to open it. Converting here decodes the WebP in your browser and writes a PNG with the pixels unchanged and any transparent areas preserved, so a logo with a see-through background stays see-through instead of picking up a white box the first time you place it on a coloured slide.

How to convert WebP to PNG

  1. 1

    Add the WebP files

    Images saved from the web are often WebP now, which trips up older editors and some print workflows. Drop in up to 20 files.

  2. 2

    Confirm PNG as the output

    Transparency survives the conversion. A WebP with an alpha channel becomes a PNG with the same alpha channel, not a white background.

  3. 3

    Download the PNG

    PNG is the safe interchange format: every editor, every operating system preview, and every clipart pipeline reads it without a plugin.

WebP to PNG questions

Yes. Both formats support an alpha channel, so transparent and semi-transparent pixels are carried across exactly. A logo saved as a WebP with a see-through background becomes a PNG with the same see-through background, with no white rectangle behind it.

No. PNG is lossless, so the converter writes exactly the pixels it decoded. If the original WebP was saved with lossy compression then the artefacts already baked into it remain — conversion cannot remove them, but it does not add any either.

That is expected. WebP was designed to beat PNG on size, usually by a quarter to a third, and lossy WebP can be far smaller still. You are trading file size for compatibility and for a lossless working copy, which is the whole point of the conversion.

Only the first frame. The browser hands a single still image to the canvas, so an animated WebP comes out as a static PNG of its opening frame. Keeping the animation would need a dedicated decoder that browsers do not expose.

Photoshop only gained native WebP support in the 2022 release; earlier versions need the WebPShop plugin installed by hand. Converting to PNG sidesteps the plugin entirely and works with every version ever shipped.

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