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Convert PNG to SVG

Wrap your PNG inside a real SVG file that scales without blur. Honest note: the picture inside stays a raster image — see the FAQ.

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This PNG to SVG converter wraps your PNG inside a real SVG file — drop the image, download an .svg that scales to any size without the blur you would get from scaling the PNG itself.

Honest, up front: this is a wrapper, not vectorization. The picture inside the SVG is still your raster PNG — the FAQ explains exactly what that means and when it is the right tool.

Why Use This PNG to SVG Tool?

  • Real .svg file — opens and scales in browsers, design tools and editors
  • No upload — the SVG is assembled in your browser from your local file
  • The clean way to satisfy "SVG only" upload fields
  • Free, no signup
  • Fast — the file is built in milliseconds

How to Convert PNG to SVG — 3 Steps

  1. Drop your PNG into the box above, or tap the box to pick it from your device.
  2. There are no settings — the SVG wraps the image at its original pixel size.
  3. Press the blue Convert to SVG button and download the .svg file.

What "PNG to SVG" Honestly Means

Two completely different jobs get called "PNG to SVG". The first is true vectorization: tracing the pixels into paths, which produces a genuinely scalable drawing but only works for simple logos and flat shapes, and badly for photos. The second is the wrapper: a valid SVG file that contains your raster image, scales to any dimension without the pixelation a bare PNG shows, and satisfies every field, platform and validator that demands an .svg extension. This tool does the wrapper — on purpose, because true raster-to-vector tracing of a photo produces mush, and every site promising otherwise is running the same wrapper or a tracing tool that will disappoint you on anything but two-color logos.

What the wrapper actually contains: an element pointing at your PNG as a base64 data URI, sized to your image's exact dimensions. The SVG scales cleanly because the viewer interpolates the embedded raster at whatever size is requested — the same softness extreme upscaling always produces, but without the hard pixelation cutoff. Logos and icons survive moderate scaling well.

When it is the right tool: a design platform that only accepts SVG, a print shop asking for vector files, an icon set that must ship as .svg, or archiving an image in a format that will still open in twenty years. When it is the wrong tool: you need the shapes editable as vectors — for that, trace the logo in dedicated software or redraw it.

The SVG is assembled in your browser from your local file; nothing is uploaded, and the output is plain text you can open in any editor to verify.

Frequently Asked Questions

It is a real, valid SVG file — but the image inside it is still your raster PNG, embedded and scalable. It is not traced into vector paths.

Automatic tracing only works on simple, flat, two-color graphics — on photos it produces muddy blobs. The wrapper keeps your image exactly as it looks.

It scales without hard pixelation because the viewer smooths the embedded image at any size — but extreme upscaling of the underlying PNG still gets soft. Garbage in, smoother garbage out.

Yes — Figma, Illustrator, Inkscape and browsers all open it as a normal SVG with an embedded image.

It is about a third larger than your PNG (base64 adds ~33%). A 500 KB PNG becomes a ~670 KB SVG.

Yes — the JPG to SVG tool does the same thing for JPG files.

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