WizeRotate an image without sending it anywhere
A quarter turn, a half turn or a mirror flip, on one image or a whole batch.
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JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF · no limit on size or number
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How it works
The tool redraws each image in the direction you ask for. A quarter turn swaps width and height: a vertical photo becomes horizontal, and the whole image is kept, never cropped.
Rotate, or flip
Rotating turns the image around its center, a quarter turn at a time. It’s what straightens a photo taken with the camera held sideways.
Flipping makes its reflection in a mirror, horizontally or vertically. It’s a different action and straightens nothing: photographed text becomes unreadable.
The two can be combined. A rotation and a mirror applied together give the same result whatever order you choose them in.
What rotation costs your image
Turning an image a quarter turn recalculates no pixels; it only moves them. So in PNG the result is strictly identical to the original.
In JPG, the tool saves nothing again: it rewrites the orientation instruction stored in the file, which browsers, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and social networks all follow. The pixels stay the original ones, bit for bit, and the weight doesn’t change.
Only old software that ignored this instruction would show the photo the way it was before. For that case, tick “Save the rotated JPG again”: the image is then rewritten the right way up, at quality 95. This format loses a little each time it’s saved; the loss is very small, but it exists and it’s better to say so.
The orientation your camera chose
A photo taken vertically isn’t always saved vertically. Many cameras store the image flat and add an instruction alongside it, in the EXIF data, telling software to straighten it when displaying it.
For a JPG, that instruction is exactly what the tool rewrites, in a block made from scratch that carries nothing else: the date, the camera model and the GPS location disappear from the resulting file. For other formats, or if you tick the box, the image is written the way you see it on screen, with no hidden instruction, and without that data either.
Frequently asked questions
Are my images sent anywhere? No. You can check for yourself in thirty seconds: here is how.
Does quality drop when I rotate an image? No. A quarter turn only moves pixels; no detail is recalculated. In PNG the result is identical to the original. In JPG, the tool doesn’t touch the pixels: it only changes the file’s orientation instruction. If you tick “Save the rotated JPG again”, the loss is very small but real, at quality 95.
Why is my photo already crooked before I rotate it? A camera doesn’t always write the image the right way up: it stores it flat and adds an orientation instruction in the EXIF data. Browsers follow that instruction when displaying, but it disappears from the resulting file. So the image comes out the way you see it here.
Can I rotate several images at once? Yes, as many as you like, with the same rotation for the whole batch. The result downloads image by image or in a zip archive.
What’s the difference between rotating and flipping? Rotating turns the image around its center, like turning a sheet of paper. Flipping makes its reflection in a mirror, which swaps left and right. Photographed text becomes unreadable after a mirror flip, not after a rotation.