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JPG to PNG Converter
Batch-convert JPG images to lossless PNG in your browser — drag, drop, convert, save. No uploads, ever.
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Convert JPG to PNG online in batches — lossless output, drag & drop, per-file save buttons. 100% private: images never leave your browser.
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- Batch conversion
- Per-file progress & save
- Lossless PNG output
Runs entirely in your browser — nothing you paste or open here is uploaded, logged, or stored.How we handle data →
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What JPG to PNG conversion actually does
Each JPG decodes to raw pixels and re-encodes as PNG — lossless from this point forward, so the image can be edited and re-saved indefinitely without further degradation. That's the conversion's real value: stopping generational loss. Existing JPG artifacts remain (no format change undoes them), but nothing more will be lost.
Expect larger files — often 5–10× for photographs, since losslessly encoding photographic detail is expensive. If the goal was 'better quality for the web', a high-quality WebP is usually the smarter destination.
When JPG to PNG is the right move — with the size math
Convert when a tool demands PNG — favicon and app-icon generators, some machine-learning and OCR pipelines, sprite and pixel-art editors, LaTeX and print layouts that reject JPG — or when an image is about to go through several editing passes and you want to lock in its current state before any more loss accumulates. Do not convert to make the picture 'better' (nothing is recovered), to publish on a website (larger and slower for identical pixels), or to archive (the JPG already is the smallest faithful copy). If none of those reasons apply, the JPG you already have is the better file.
Expect the file to grow 5–10×: a 3 MB 12-megapixel JPG becomes a 20–30 MB PNG, a 200 KB screenshot around 800 KB to 1.5 MB. Multiply by the batch before pressing Save all — fifty photos is over a gigabyte, delivered as fifty separate downloads with the original base names and a .png extension. The PNG is opaque, since JPG has no alpha channel: this converter does not remove backgrounds, so a product shot that needs a transparent cut-out still has to go through an editor afterwards. Orientation is baked in, metadata is dropped, and the tab above the card flips back to PNG to JPG when you need the reverse trip.
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Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about the JPG to PNG.
01Does JPG to PNG remove the background or make it transparent?
JPG to PNG neither removes nor adds transparency: JPG has no alpha channel, so there is nothing to preserve, and the converter does not detect or remove backgrounds — the PNG comes out fully opaque with the same pixels as the JPG. A product shot that needs a transparent cut-out still has to go through an editor afterwards; this conversion only changes the container, losslessly.
02Will converting JPG to PNG improve image quality?
Converting JPG to PNG does not improve image quality, and any tool implying otherwise is misleading you. JPG compression discarded detail at save time; PNG preserves what remains losslessly but can't restore what's gone. Convert when you need PNG's properties going forward, not to repair the past.
03When does JPG to PNG conversion make sense?
Workflows that only accept PNG; preparing images for repeated editing (PNG re-saves don't accumulate loss like JPG); and feeding tools that require lossless input. PNGs will be larger — that's lossless's price.
04Does the PNG keep EXIF, GPS and the orientation flag?
The orientation flag is applied to the pixels during decoding, so a portrait phone photo comes out upright — and then no EXIF is written at all. Camera model, capture time, GPS coordinates and the ICC profile are gone, and the PNG is plain 8-bit sRGB. That makes JPG to PNG a quiet way to scrub location data before sharing, and a poor way to archive: keep the original JPG if the metadata has value.
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