Image Tools

Flip an image horizontally or vertically

Mirror a picture in one direction or both. The preview flips as you press, so you can see immediately whether it reads better the other way round.

Add one image and mirror it left-to-right or top-to-bottom.

Edited in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

  • Runs in your browser
  • No account required
  • Free to use
  • Up to 50 files

How it works

01

Flipping is a negative scale

The canvas is scaled by -1 along one axis, which reflects the drawing about its own centre. No pixel is invented or blended, so the mirrored image contains exactly the same information as the original, in the opposite order.

02

Both directions at once is a 180° turn

Mirroring left-to-right and top-to-bottom together produces the same result as rotating the picture 180°. Both toggles are here anyway, because it is easier to try it than to work it out.

03

Rotation is on the same page

The angle controls sit alongside, since the two operations share a canvas pass. Doing them together means the image is encoded once rather than twice, which matters for JPG and WebP where every encode costs a little quality.

What it does

Two independent toggles

Horizontal, vertical, or both. Each is a button that stays pressed, so the current state is visible rather than remembered.

Save in any of three formats

PNG when the image has transparency or flat colour, JPG for photographs, WebP when you want both. The quality slider appears only for the formats where it means something.

No pixel is recalculated

A flip is lossless in the shape of the image. Save as PNG and the result is the same photograph, reflected, with nothing thrown away.

The picture never leaves your computer

Everything here is drawn on a canvas in your own browser. There is no upload and no account, and the picture itself is never sent anywhere — which for a photograph of your family, your passport or your unreleased product is the only arrangement worth having. Analytics records that the tool was opened, never what you opened it on.

Practical advice

Getting a better result

  • Front cameras usually mirror the preview but not the saved file, or the other way round. If a selfie looks wrong and you cannot say why, a horizontal flip is almost always the reason.
  • Designers flip a layout to check its balance — the eye stops reading and starts seeing shapes, which makes a lopsided composition obvious.
  • Anything with text, a logo or a number plate should not be mirrored. It will be quietly unreadable, and readers notice long before they work out why.
  • A vertical flip is rarely what someone means by "flip". If you want a photo the right way up but turned around, that is a horizontal flip, or a 180° rotation.
  • Flipping a portrait so the subject faces into the page rather than off the edge is an old layout trick, and it works — as long as the subject has no visible writing on them.

Questions

Things people ask

What is the difference between flipping and rotating?

Rotating turns the picture; flipping reflects it. A rotated photograph could have been taken by tilting the camera. A mirrored one could not — it is the view from behind the glass, and anything asymmetric in it is now the wrong way round.

Does flipping lose any quality?

Not in the pixels: they are reordered, not recalculated. Saving as JPG re-encodes the file and costs a little, as any JPG save does. Save as PNG if you want to be certain nothing was lost.

Why does my selfie look wrong after flipping?

Because you are used to seeing yourself in a mirror, which is already reversed. The camera records what everyone else sees. Whichever version looks strange to you is usually the one that looks normal to them.

Can I flip and rotate in one go?

Yes — the rotation controls are on this page too, and both are applied in a single pass over the canvas so the image is only encoded once.

Who builds these

Free tools by day. Websites that earn their keep by trade.

KuConvert is built by KUDUY, a web design and development agency. From custom WordPress builds to SEO and e-commerce, everything they do is engineered to bring you more qualified traffic and turn it into revenue.

  • Fixed scope, no surprise invoices

    Most sites ship in four to eight weeks with the scope and the price agreed up front.

  • SEO from day one

    Search is designed into the build — structure, schema and Core Web Vitals — not retrofitted.

  • A team, not a ticket queue

    A project manager, a designer and a developer you can actually reach.

Need your whole site to load this fast?

Images are usually the heaviest thing on a page and the easiest win. KUDUY works on site speed, image delivery and Core Web Vitals for teams who would rather not do it by hand.

This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded.