Free PNG to JPG Converter

How it works

1. 1Drop the PNG above, or a folder of them.
2. 2Set a quality. Around 80 is the usual sweet spot for a photograph: below 60 you start to see it, above 90 the file grows for very little gain.
3. 3Download the JPG. If the PNG had transparency, those areas arrive as solid white.

Common use cases

• Cutting a screenshot-heavy folder of PNGs down before emailing it.
• Getting a photograph that was saved as PNG back to a sensible size.
• Meeting an upload limit on a form that will not take the PNG as it stands.
• Preparing photos for a print service that asks for JPG.
• Reducing the weight of a page whose images are PNGs that never needed to be.

Frequently asked questions

What happens to a transparent background?

It becomes solid white. JPG has no alpha channel at all, so every transparent pixel has to be filled with something, and white is the convention. This is the one thing to check before converting: a logo that sat cleanly on any background will arrive on a white rectangle, and there is no way to undo it afterwards short of removing the background again. If you need transparency, convert to WebP instead, which keeps it and is smaller than the PNG anyway.

How much smaller will the JPG be?

For a photograph, dramatically: five to ten times smaller is ordinary, because PNG stores every pixel exactly and a photograph gives its compression almost nothing to work with. For a flat graphic, logo or screenshot, much less, and sometimes the JPG is actually larger. PNG is very good at large areas of identical color, which is exactly what a screenshot is made of, and JPG is bad at the hard edges around text.

Will the quality drop?

Yes, because JPG is lossy. On a photograph at quality 80 or above the difference is genuinely hard to see, and the file saving is enormous, which is why this trade is usually worth making. On text, line art and screenshots it is a different story: JPG smears faintly around hard edges, and a screenshot converted to JPG looks slightly grubby in a way that is hard to unsee once noticed.

Should this be a WebP instead?

Probably, if it is going on a website. WebP is smaller than JPG at the same quality, keeps transparency if there is any, and every current browser reads it. JPG remains the right answer for email, print, marketplace uploads and anywhere the file has to open in software you do not control.

Is there a way to shrink a PNG without leaving PNG?

Yes. Our PNG compressor reduces how many distinct colors the file stores, which on graphics and screenshots often halves the size with no visible change and no format change. That is the better route when the image has transparency or sharp text, both of which JPG handles badly.

Where does the conversion happen?

In your browser, using the Canvas API. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored.

Related tools

• JPG to PNGConvert JPG photos to lossless PNG.
• Compress JPGReduce JPG file size with an adjustable quality slider.
• PNG to WebPConvert PNG images to WebP for smaller file sizes.

Understand what this does

Plain explanations of what is happening to your file, and what it costs you.

• Are free image converters safe?Some are dangerous, most are merely careless, and the difference is something you can check yourself in about a minute.
• Does compressing an image reduce quality?Sometimes, and much less than you would guess. We measured it: the first save does nearly all the damage, and after that a JPEG stops degrading entirely.
• JPG vs JPEG: is there any difference?None at all. Same format, same file, different number of letters — and here is what is really wrong when a site rejects one and accepts the other.
• Why won't my image upload?Ranked by how often each one is actually to blame — and the message on screen is frequently wrong about which of the five you have hit.
• PNG vs JPG: which should you use?Photographs are JPG, everything else is PNG, and the reason is one difference in how the two throw information away.