WebP to JPG Converter

To convert WebP to JPG, drop your .webp files into the box above, or tap it to choose them. Leave the quality at 85% unless you have a reason not to, click Convert all, and download each JPG on its own or the whole batch as one .zip. Want PNG or PDF instead, or need to go the other way? The WebP converter handles every direction on one page.

It's a free WebP to JPG converter with no account, no watermark and no limit on how many files you add. Your browser can already read WebP, so the converter decodes each file with that built-in decoder in a background worker, then writes the JPG with mozjpeg, the encoder Google's Squoosh uses. In our tests it made files 14 to 21% smaller than the browser's own JPG encoder at the same setting. All of it runs on your device.

Two things change on the way. JPG has no transparency, so any see-through parts of the WebP are filled with white, and the row tells you when that happened. And an animated WebP gives you its first frame, because a JPG holds one still picture. If you want the animation, convert the WebP to GIF instead.

You can also change WebP to JPG with software that's already on your computer. Here's how, and when this page is the quicker route.

How to convert WebP to JPG on Windows

Open the .webp file in Paint, then choose File, Save as, JPEG picture. Windows 11 reads WebP with nothing extra. On Windows 10, if Paint won't open it, install the free WebP Image Extensions from the Microsoft Store first. Paint does one image at a time and gives you no say over quality, so for a folder of downloads it's faster to drop them all in above.

How to convert WebP to JPG on a Mac

Preview opens WebP on macOS Big Sur and later. Open the file, choose File, Export, set Format to JPEG, drag the quality slider and save. For several at once, open them together, select every thumbnail in the sidebar, then use File, Export Selected Images and pick JPEG under Options. Macs older than Big Sur can't open WebP in Preview, but this page works on them in Chrome or Firefox.

Turn a WebP into a JPG on iPhone or Android

Open this page in Safari or Chrome on your phone, tap the box and pick the .webp from Files, Photos or your Downloads folder. Tap Convert all, then Download. The JPG lands wherever your browser saves files, ready to attach or upload. Nothing extra to install.

We converted the illustration at the top of our own homepage: prism-hero.webp, 79 KB, 1024 × 1024 pixels, with a transparent background. At the default 85% it came out as a 24 KB JPG in under a second. Smaller, which surprised us at first. The reason: 63 KB of that WebP was the transparency layer, which JPG doesn't keep. The background came out white, and the row said so.

Then a 1536 × 1024 screenshot saved as a lossy WebP, 58 KB. As a JPG at 85% it grew to 91 KB. That's the usual direction for a photo or screenshot. WebP was built to beat JPG on size, so the same picture costs more bytes as a JPG. At 70% the JPG was 62 KB, barely bigger than the WebP; at 95% it was 160 KB. On photos you'd struggle to see a difference between those settings. Text and sharp edges show the blur first, so screenshots deserve the higher end.

WebP is Google's image format from 2010. Its lossy mode compresses each block of pixels by predicting it from its neighbors, borrowed from the VP8 video codec, and Google's own tests found it 25 to 34% smaller than a JPG of similar quality. It also handles transparency and animation. Every current browser shows WebP, which is why so many sites now send it, but plenty of software outside the browser still doesn't.

JPG (or JPEG, the same format under its full name) dates from 1992. It splits the picture into 8 × 8 blocks, turns each into frequencies with a discrete cosine transform, and throws away the fine detail your eye is least likely to miss. No transparency and no animation, but nearly every device, app and upload form made in the last thirty years opens it.

So WebP vs JPG comes down to this: WebP is the better format for a web page, JPG is the safer one for anything that leaves the browser. Converting WebP to JPG compresses the picture a second time. At 85% that's very hard to see, but it can't bring back detail the WebP already lost. If you need every pixel kept, or the transparent background, use the WebP to PNG converter instead.