Convert WebP to JPG
Turn WebP files — the format saved by many websites — into JPG or PNG that every program opens. Runs entirely in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
Why you have a WebP in the first place
WebP is Google's image format, and it's excellent — smaller than JPG and PNG at matching quality, with support for transparency and animation. Most websites now serve it to save bandwidth. The catch is that when you save an image from the web, you get a .webp file, and plenty of older software, some printers, and a few upload forms don't accept it. Converting to JPG or PNG fixes that everywhere.
JPG or PNG?
- To JPG for photographs and anything you'll email or upload. Smallest file, universally accepted.
- To PNG when the image has transparency you need to keep, or has sharp edges and flat colour like a logo or screenshot. Larger file, but lossless and transparency-safe.
Transparency and animation
A WebP with transparent areas keeps them when converted to PNG. Converting to JPG replaces them with white, since JPG can't store transparency — each file notes when that happens. Animated WebP files are a special case: only the first frame converts, because JPG and PNG are single images. For those you'd need a format that supports animation, like GIF.
The conversion is lossless-in, not lossless-out
Converting decodes the WebP and re-encodes it in the new format. To JPG that means a small, normal amount of re-compression; to PNG it's lossless. Either way you're working from the WebP you have, which was itself already compressed — so this recovers compatibility, not lost detail.