Can I convert a photo to SVG?

You can, but you shouldn't — tracing a photograph produces a massive SVG made of thousands of coloured blobs that's larger than the PNG and looks worse. Vectorising is for logos, icons and line art, where it works very well.

Are my images uploaded anywhere?

No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using the canvas API and, for some formats, WebAssembly — the image never leaves your device. Most conversions keep working with the internet switched off once the page has loaded. A few (HEIC, TIFF, AVIF and PNG to SVG) download a helper file from this site the first time you use them; if you are offline at that moment you are told so, not blamed for a broken file. There is no upload endpoint to send anything to.

Yes — no account, no watermark, no daily limit, and no paid step at download. It's free because there's no server doing the work, so it costs us almost nothing to run.

Trace a PNG into a scalable SVG

Converting a PNG to SVG means tracing the pixels into vector shapes, so the result can scale to any size without blurring. It's genuinely useful for logos, icons and high-contrast line art — a small logo you only have as a PNG can become a crisp, resizable SVG.

It is not magic, and it's honest to say so: tracing is an approximation. On clean, simple graphics it works beautifully; on photographs it produces enormous, ugly SVGs that are larger than the PNG and look worse. Use it for the former, not the latter.

What this does — and what it doesn't

Tracing works well only on logos, icons and line art. Photographs and detailed images produce huge, poor-quality SVGs — for those, keep the raster format.
The traced SVG is an approximation of the original, not a pixel-perfect copy. Fine detail and small text may distort.

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PNG to SVG — frequently asked questions

Can I convert a photo to SVG?: You can, but you shouldn't — tracing a photograph produces a massive SVG made of thousands of coloured blobs that's larger than the PNG and looks worse. Vectorising is for logos, icons and line art, where it works very well.
Are my images uploaded anywhere?: No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using the canvas API and, for some formats, WebAssembly — the image never leaves your device. Most conversions keep working with the internet switched off once the page has loaded. A few (HEIC, TIFF, AVIF and PNG to SVG) download a helper file from this site the first time you use them; if you are offline at that moment you are told so, not blamed for a broken file. There is no upload endpoint to send anything to.
Is it really free?: Yes — no account, no watermark, no daily limit, and no paid step at download. It's free because there's no server doing the work, so it costs us almost nothing to run.

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