# Convert PNG to WebP in your browser.

Web page: https://converter.chabulab.com/png-to-webp/

This is the Markdown version of https://converter.chabulab.com/png-to-webp/, for a reader that would rather not parse the page's HTML. The converter itself is at https://converter.chabulab.com/ and runs on your own device.

PNG is lossless and keeps transparency, so it is what screenshots, icons and graphics get saved as. WebP is the modern web format: smaller than JPG at the same quality, with transparency, and every current browser reads it. This page moves a PNG to a WebP in your own browser: the file is read, re-encoded and handed back without being uploaded.

Both formats carry transparency, so a transparent background survives the conversion.

WebP is a lossy format: the encoder discards detail to make the file smaller, and the quality slider on this page is how you choose how much.

## Why convert PNG to WebP

- You are shipping images on the web and want both transparency and a small file.

- You want to replace a heavy PNG with a modern format the browser loads quickly.

### What to expect

- Current browsers all support WebP, but a few older tools still cannot open it.

### PNG to WebP questions

#### Is converting PNG to WebP free?

Yes, and there is nothing to unlock. The conversion runs in your browser, so there is
           no account, nothing to pay and no licence key to enter. Every format and every
           feature on the site is available to everyone.

#### Are my PNG files uploaded anywhere?

No. Your file is decoded and re-encoded inside this tab and never uploaded. The ads on this page are served by Google and do see that you are here, but they never see your file. You can check it yourself: open the network panel and search for a request carrying your picture.

#### Does the WebP keep transparency?

Yes. Both PNG and WebP carry an alpha channel, so a transparent background comes through unchanged.

#### How much quality do I lose converting PNG to WebP?

Some, and it depends on the picture and the setting. WebP is lossy, so it throws away detail the encoder thinks you cannot see. The quality slider is adjustable from 10 to 100 before you convert, and the queue shows you the resulting file size so you can trade one against the other.

#### Can I convert more than one PNG file at once?

Yes. Drop a batch onto the page and every file is converted in the
    queue, then downloaded together. The queue also shows the size before and after, so you
    can see what the conversion saved. There is no cap on how many files you convert at once;
    the only real limit is what your device can hold in memory at the same time.

### Other conversions

- [PNG to JPG](https://converter.chabulab.com/png-to-jpg/)

- [PNG to AVIF](https://converter.chabulab.com/png-to-avif/)

- [PNG to JXL](https://converter.chabulab.com/png-to-jxl/)

- [PNG to GIF](https://converter.chabulab.com/png-to-gif/)

- [HEIC to WebP](https://converter.chabulab.com/heic-to-webp/)

- [JPG to WebP](https://converter.chabulab.com/jpg-to-webp/)

- [GIF to WebP](https://converter.chabulab.com/gif-to-webp/)

- [JXL to WebP](https://converter.chabulab.com/jxl-to-webp/)