Converting JPG photos to WebP
Drop your .jpg files, pick a quality, and download .webp versions. Your browser decodes each photo and re-encodes it as WebP on your own device. No upload, no account, no watermark. Convert one photo or a hundred.
The case for WebP on photos
WebP compresses photographs better than JPEG at the same visual quality, which is why site owners moved to it. A gallery, a product grid or a blog full of screenshots gets noticeably lighter, and lighter pages rank and convert better.
Two audiences find this page. If you run a website, this is a straightforward speed win. If a service told you to upload WebP, this gets you a file it will accept.
Read this before batch converting your library
Your JPG has already been through lossy compression once. Encoding WebP from it compresses a second time, on top of artifacts the JPEG encoder left behind. At High the difference is hard to see. At Small file, blocky JPEG edges get smeared into WebP's own soft patches, and the result can look worse than the original at a similar size.
So: convert copies, keep the originals, and check one photo at your chosen setting before running the batch. Whenever you still have the camera file or the PNG export, encode WebP from that instead. One lossy step always beats two.
Frequently asked questions
Does anything leave my computer?
No. The decode and encode both happen in this page, on your machine.
Which quality setting is right?
High for portfolio and product photos. Medium for the everyday images on a content page. Small file when a hard size limit decides the matter.
How much smaller do photos get?
Typically a quarter to a third smaller than the JPG at a comparable look, though it varies with the picture and with how heavily the JPG was compressed already. Every output shows its own before and after.
Do EXIF data and GPS coordinates carry over?
No. The image is redrawn from its pixels, so camera settings, timestamps and location are dropped. That is a privacy gain when you publish photos and a loss if you were relying on the metadata, so archive the originals.
Will old browsers show my WebP images?
Current browsers all do, including Safari 14 and later. Internet Explorer never will. For traffic that old, serve a JPG fallback with a <picture> element.
Can I convert a folder in one pass?
Drop the files together and convert once. Each gets a download button, and the last one zips the batch.