Flip Image Online

Mirror an image horizontally or vertically in your browser, in batches, with the original format kept and nothing uploaded.

Files you drop here are processed by your own browser. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored on our servers — the tools keep working even if you lose your connection after the page has loaded.

How to use Flip Image

  1. 1Drop your images onto the box above, or click to browse. Any mix of formats works.
  2. 2Choose horizontal, vertical, or both at once.
  3. 3Press apply, then download each file or take the batch as a .zip.

When you need to flip image files

Three cases account for almost all of it.

The first is selfies and video-call screenshots. Phone cameras generally show a mirrored preview because that is how you see yourself in a mirror, and some apps save the unmirrored frame. The result looks slightly wrong to the person in it, and a horizontal flip fixes that.

The second is composition. A subject looking or moving left reads differently from one looking right, and in a layout you often want them looking into the page rather than out of it. Flipping is the cheapest possible fix.

The third is scanned or reversed material: film negatives photographed from the wrong side, screenshots from a mirrored display, artwork that needs to face the other way in a spread.

Check this before you mirror image content

Text. A horizontal flip reverses every letter in the picture, and a vertical flip turns them upside down as well as mirroring them. This is not a limitation that can be engineered away, because the tool is moving pixels rather than understanding the image.

So look for text before you commit: signs, logos, watermarks, number plates, a brand name on clothing, UI captions in a screenshot. If any of it matters, flip is the wrong operation, and cropping or rotating is probably what you actually wanted.

Faces are the other thing worth a glance. Human faces are not symmetrical, and some people find a mirrored portrait of someone they know quite uncanny even though they cannot say why.

Flip photo horizontally, vertically, or both

Horizontal is the one people mean nine times out of ten: left and right swap, which is what a mirror does.

Vertical flips top and bottom, which for a normal photograph produces an upside-down image with the light coming from the wrong direction. It is genuinely useful for reflections, for a symmetrical pattern, and for material that was scanned the wrong way up.

Both at once is the same result as a 180 degree rotation. It is offered because the two operations arrive at the same place, and whichever you were thinking of is right here.

Format and quality

Each file keeps its own format, so a PNG stays a PNG and a JPEG stays a JPEG. The exception is a source the canvas cannot write, such as AVIF, GIF or SVG, which comes out as PNG.

Everything runs in this tab. No file is sent anywhere, which also means a folder of several hundred images is limited only by your own machine.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between flipping and rotating?
A flip mirrors the image, so left becomes right. A rotation turns it, so the top edge moves to the side. They are not interchangeable: flipping twice returns the original, while rotating twice gives you an upside-down picture.
Why does my selfie look wrong until I flip it?
Most phone camera apps show you a mirrored preview, because that is what you are used to seeing in a mirror. Some save the unmirrored version, which then looks subtly wrong to you even though it is what everyone else sees.
Will text in the image be readable?
No. A horizontal flip reverses any text in the picture, and there is no way around that: the tool moves pixels, it cannot re-typeset a sign. If the image contains text you need to keep, a rotation or a crop is the operation you want.
Does flipping reduce quality?
Mirroring itself is exact, since it only reorders pixels. What costs a little is re-encoding: a JPEG has to be written again, which is a fresh generation of lossy compression. PNG and WebP-lossless outputs are unaffected.

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