Convert PNG to JPG
For photographs, PNG is the wrong container — it stores photos losslessly and produces huge files, and converting those to JPG routinely cuts 70–90% of the size. Keep logos, line art and anything transparent in PNG or WebP though: JPG blurs sharp edges and fills transparency with white.
Need the other direction? Convert JPG to PNG
How it works
Drag in the PNGs that are really photographs — screenshots of photos, scans, exports that ballooned — or paste from the clipboard.
Each file re-encodes at quality 85 on your machine; the size column shows the 70–90% cut as it happens.
If an image carries transparency, remember JPG will paint it white — adjust the slider per file, then download individually or as a zip.
PNG vs JPG
On photographs the verdict is lopsided: JPG stores the same visible image in 10–30% of PNG’s bytes, so photos parked in PNG are simply renting disk space. The verdict flips for graphics — text, line art, transparency — where PNG’s exactness is the entire point.
| PNG | JPG | |
|---|---|---|
| Compression | Lossless | Lossy |
| Transparency | Yes (full alpha) | No |
| Animation | No | No |
| Support | Universal — every browser, editor and OS | Universal — the safest format there is |
| Best for | Logos, screenshots, graphics with transparency | Photographs and strict upload forms |
Frequently asked questions
No — that is the whole reason I built this. The conversion runs in your browser using WebAssembly, so your files never leave your device; there is no server in the loop at all. It also means the tool keeps working offline once the page has loaded, and there is no file size limit beyond your device’s memory.
Convert photos, screenshots of photos and scanned images: they shrink dramatically with no visible difference. Keep text-heavy screenshots, logos and anything transparent as PNG or WebP — JPG blurs sharp edges and fills transparency with white.
Photographic PNGs typically drop 70–90% at quality 85. Graphics with large flat-color areas shrink less and can look worse — for those, PNG to WebP is the better target.
Yes — the quality slider re-encodes instantly as you release it, and the size readout updates per file, so you can find the smallest size that still looks right to you.
Where the file is going settles it. Staying on the web → PNG to WebP: smaller than JPG and it keeps transparency. Leaving the web — email, documents, print, older software → JPG, because nothing ever rejects it. On photos WebP beats JPG by roughly 25–35%, so JPG’s one real advantage is universality. That is often exactly the advantage you need.
Anything transparent (the alpha channel flattens to white), interface screenshots full of text (JPEG artifacts smear the letters), and line art or pixel graphics (hard edges ring). Those stay PNG or go to WebP. The PNGs that benefit are photographic — photos saved as PNG carry 5–10× more bytes than they need to.
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