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Rotate Image Online Free — PrivaTools

TL;DR: Upload an image, pick 90°, 180°, 270°, or type a custom angle, and download the rotated version — transparency preserved for PNG and WEBP.

Rotate images online for free — JPG, PNG, WEBP, HEIC, BMP, GIF, TIFF. Choose 90°, 180°, 270°, or any custom angle. Canvas auto-expands so nothing is cropped. Transparency preserved for PNG and WEBP.

Using Rotate Image doesn't require an account, an email address, or a paid plan. Your file is held in temp memory only for the duration of processing, then permanently unlinked. No watermarks, no upsells, no behavioural tracking.

How to Use Rotate Image

  1. Upload an image — Drop a JPG, PNG, WEBP, HEIC, BMP, GIF, or TIFF — up to 50 MB.
  2. Pick a rotation angle — Click 90° (left/right), 180°, 270°, or enter any custom angle (e.g. 13° to straighten a tilted scan). The canvas auto-expands so nothing is cropped off.
  3. Click Rotate — Output downloads as the same format you uploaded; transparency is preserved for PNG and WEBP.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will rotation lose quality?

For 90°/180°/270° rotations no — they're lossless transpositions of pixels. Arbitrary angles re-sample using bicubic interpolation which is visually near-lossless but technically introduces sub-pixel smoothing.

Why is my output bigger than the input?

For non-90° angles, the rotated rectangle no longer fits in the original bounding box. The canvas auto-expands so the whole rotated image is visible (corners get transparent/white padding).

Does PNG/WEBP transparency carry over?

Yes — the alpha channel is preserved, and rotated corners are transparent (not white) for PNG and WEBP. For JPG the corners get white since JPG has no alpha.

Last reviewed 2026-05-01 by the PrivaTools maintainers. Source code on (MIT-licensed, self-hostable).

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