Flat illustrations, stickers and UI graphics traced into clean, scalable paths.
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WebP was designed to move images across the web quickly. SVG was designed to describe shapes. Converting one into the other is a change of purpose, not just of file extension.
A WebP file is still a raster image: it is fast to download and looks the same everywhere, but it cannot be recolored or enlarged without limits. The SVG you get here is geometry — paths you can restyle and scale forever.
Illustrations, stickers, empty-state graphics and marketing art are usually drawn as shapes in the first place. Tracing them returns them to curves that keep their crisp edges at any zoom level.
Animated WebP is not traced frame by frame. Export a still frame as PNG first if you need one particular pose of an animation turned into a vector.
Illustration mode is the default here because it balances color fidelity with clean curves.
Enough for shadows, highlights and skin tones in flat art, few enough that similar shades do not each become their own shape. Drop to 8 for simple badge-style graphics.
Keep Detail around 7–9 so small elements such as eyes, dots and icon strokes survive. Smoothness at 5 rounds the corners without erasing them.
Images exported at 1× for a website are often under 800 px. A 2× upscale gives thin outlines enough room to trace as real curves rather than steps.
WebP supports transparency, and those areas stay transparent in the SVG. The checkerboard in the preview is only a background — it never ends up in the file.
A few common cases where a vector is simply the better container.
Print shops want outlines, not pixels. A traced illustration can be scaled to a die-cut sticker size without losing the line quality of the original artwork.
Once the artwork is a handful of paths, changing a brand color is a global find-and-replace instead of a re-export from a design file you may no longer have.
Icons and illustrations used in apps, decks and docs stay crisp on retina screens and in PDF exports when they are vectors, and they often weigh less than a 2× WebP.
Only as a still image. Animation frames are not converted one by one, so the tracer works on a single frame. If you need a specific frame as a vector, export it from the animation as a PNG and convert that instead.
Illustration is preselected on this page and handles most flat artwork well. For simple icons and badges with two or three colors, Logo / Icon gives tighter, cleaner shapes; for photos saved as WebP, Photo mode is the better choice.
Sometimes, not always. WebP compresses photographs extremely well, so a busy photo-derived SVG will usually be bigger. For flat illustrations with large solid areas, the vector file often ends up smaller, and it is always more editable.
Yes. Transparent pixels are treated as empty space, so cut-out illustrations stay cut out and the SVG drops neatly onto any page background or product mockup.
Partly: the image and the SVG we return are kept for up to 30 days to help improve the converter, then deleted automatically. They are never sold or shared, and no account is involved. The privacy policy (/privacy) lists what is recorded and how to request deletion.
