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Convert WebP to JPG

Turn a WebP into the JPG that an upload form, a print shop or an older app will take.

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Processed on your device. Files are not uploaded.

“Accepted formats: JPG, PNG.” If a form says that and your picture ends in .webp, this page fixes it. WebP is what many websites serve to save bandwidth, so pictures saved from the web often arrive in it, and job portals, government forms and print shops do not always take it.

Getting the JPG

  1. Drop the WebP files on the box, click to choose them, or paste a copied image with Ctrl+V.
  2. “Convert to” is already set to JPG. Each file is converted on its own, and the size before and after appears next to it.
  3. Download each JPG, or all of them at once in a ZIP.
  4. Upload the JPG to the form. If it is still over the form’s size limit, run it through Compress image or make it smaller with Resize image.

The JPG comes out a little bigger

That surprises people, but it is normal. A 38.0 KB WebP photo of a coffee cup became a 48.3 KB JPG (+27%), and a 135 KB picture of the Hubble Deep Field became 145 KB (+8%). WebP’s compression is more efficient than JPEG’s, so the same picture needs more bytes as a JPG.

For an upload form, JPG is still the right choice over PNG. The same coffee cup as a PNG was 480 KB, ten times the JPG, and a 1 MB or 2 MB form limit fills up fast with photos like that.

Where JPG falls short

Logos and graphics with a transparent background lose it: those areas turn white. Screenshots and images with small text can pick up faint smudges around the letters. For both, WebP to PNG is the better target. An animated WebP gives you only its first frame, and EXIF details such as camera and date are not copied; the color profile is, when the WebP has one.

Questions and answers

Does converting WebP to JPG lose quality?

A little. The JPG is saved at quality 85 with the MozJPEG encoder, which adds a small loss on top of what the WebP already had. At normal viewing size the difference is hard to see.

Why is the JPG bigger than the WebP?

WebP packs a photo into fewer bytes than JPG does, so the JPG usually comes out somewhat larger. Our samples grew by 8% and 27%. You convert for compatibility, not to save space.

What happens to transparent areas?

JPG has no transparency, so they are filled with white rather than left to turn black. To keep them, convert to PNG instead.

What do I get from an animated WebP?

A JPG of the first frame.

Can I convert many WebP files at once?

Yes. Drop or choose as many as you like; they convert one after another. Once two or more are done, one button downloads them all as a ZIP.