How to Convert WebP to JPEG, PNG, and Other Image Formats

Are you having issues opening WebP images on your devices? Don’t worry, you can convert your WebP image to a more widely supported format like JPEG and PNG on any of your devices.

This guide shows how you convert WebP images using Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android devices.

What Is WebP?

WebP is an image file format mainly used to serve images on the web. This format supports both lossless as well as lossy compressions. When you use WebP format for your images, the size tends to be much smaller than their JPEG or PNG counterparts.

Related: How Does File Compression Work?

Because of these features, many websites use WebP as the default format for all their website images. This allows websites to load faster in your browsers.

But you often need to convert these images to open them in other apps.

How to Convert WebP to Other Formats on Windows

On Windows, you can either directly download a WebP image in a popular file format or you can convert your existing WebP images to other formats.

Here’s how to do both.

Download WebP Images in Another Format

There’s an extension for the Chrome browser that lets you download WebP images in PNG format. You can use this free extension and download any WebP image from any website in PNG (there are many other useful Chrome extensions you can use as well).

Here’s how you do that:

1. Head over to the Save Image As PNG page on the Chrome Web Store.
2. Click Add to Chrome to install the extension in your browser.
3. Restart Chrome once the extension is installed.
4. Go to the site with the WebP image you want, right-click the image, and select Save Image As PNG.
5. You’ll get the usual save dialog box allowing you to save the PNG version of your selected WebP image.

Convert Downloaded WebP Images to Other Formats

If you’ve already downloaded a WebP image, there’s a built-in app on your Windows PC that you can use to convert this image to another format.

This app is MS Paint, which you’re probably familiar with, and you can use it for image conversion as well.

Here’s how you use Paint to convert WebP to another format:

1. Right-click your WebP image and choose Open with followed by Paint.
2. Your image should open in MS Paint.
3. Click the File menu at the top and hover your mouse over Save as.
4. You’ll see several image formats on the right of Save as. Click the format you want to convert your WebP image to.
5. Hit Save on the following screen to save your WebP image in your selected format.

How to Convert WebP to Other Formats on macOS

If you’re a macOS user, there’s a free app on the Mac App Store that you can use to convert your WebP images to other formats.

This app is called XnConvert, and it’s free. Besides using it to convert single images, you can also use the app to convert several WebP images at the same time as well.

Here’s how:

1. Hit up the Mac App Store and download and install the free XnConvert app on your Mac.
2. Launch the app once it’s installed, and click the Output tab at the top.
3. On this screen, choose the resulting format for your WebP images from the Format dropdown menu. You can choose from many popular options, like JPEG and PNG.
4. Head back to the Input tab at the top, and click Add files to add your source images.
5. Select single or multiple WebP images that you want to convert to another format, and they’ll be added to the app.
6. Once you see your WebP images in the app, click Convert at the bottom.
7. Choose a folder to save your converted images to.
8. The app will start converting your images.

When the images are converted, they will be available in your selected folder.

Related: How to Batch Convert and Resize Images on Your Mac

How to Convert WebP to Other Formats on iOS or iPadOS

If your iPhone or iPad runs iOS 13 or later or iPadOS, you don’t need to do anything to convert WebP images. Instead, all your downloaded WebP images automatically convert to JPEG by default.

However, you can also use a free app to convert your images to another format, as follows:

1. Download and install the free Image Converter app on your device.
2. Open the app and tap where your WebP image is located.
3. Once you’ve selected the image, choose an output format and tap Convert.
4. Tap Save on the resulting screen to save your converted image. This image should become available in the Photos app.

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Most Android phones download WebP images in JPEG and so it’s unlikely you’ll need to perform any conversion. However, if you’ve somehow got WebP images, a free app on the Play Store can help you convert your images to a more popular format.

This is how you perform the WebP to another format conversion on Android:

1. Install the free XnConvert app on your device.
2. Launch the app, tap the Menu in the top-left, and select Storage.
3. Navigate to the folder where your WebP image is saved, and tap the image to import it into the app.
4. Once the image is in the app, scroll down the bottom part of the app, select an output format from the Output menu, and tap Convert.
5. Your converted image should be available in the Gallery app.

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If you don’t want to install an app, you can use one of many free online image converters to convert your WebP images to other formats.

Here we show how you use one of these converters to turn a WebP image into PNG:

1. Open the Online Convert site in your browser.
2. Click Choose Files to upload WebP images from your computer. If your images are located elsewhere, choose an appropriate option.
3. Optionally, specify the conversion options.
4. Click Start Conversion to begin converting your WebP images.
5. When your images are converted, click Download to download them to your computer.

Making WebP Accessible on All Your Devices

If you’re having trouble viewing a WebP image on your device, use one of the methods above to convert your image to a compatible format.

Like WebP, HEIC also has limited support. If you want to view this file format on most non-Apple devices, you’re going to need to convert your images first. Luckily, there are various ways to perform this conversion on your devices.

Source: makeuseof.com