Rotate and flip images

Turn a photo the right way up, or mirror it. One picture or three hundred, with the same turn applied to all of them. Everything runs on your own device.

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Drop images here or click to choose — JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC

Why a rotated photo goes back to being sideways

Phone cameras almost never turn the picture when you turn the phone. The sensor writes the same rectangle every time and adds a small note — the orientation flag — that says which way up it should be displayed. Photo apps read that note. A lot of other software does not, which is why a photo that looks perfect on your phone arrives on its side in an email, a job application form, or a printed document.

Some tools "rotate" your photo by only changing that flag. It looks fixed on your screen and stays broken everywhere that ignores the flag. This page moves the actual pixels instead. The file it hands back carries no orientation flag at all, and every reader treats a file without one as already upright — so the picture is the right way up in software that reads the flag and in software that ignores it.

Does rotating lose quality?

Turning by 90, 180 or 270 degrees moves each pixel to a new place without inventing or discarding any, so the turn itself costs nothing. Saving the result as JPG re-encodes it, which spends a small amount — the same as any other edit. Choose PNG or WebP output if you want that to be zero, or keep the quality slider high.

There is no free-angle rotation here on purpose. Turning by 7 degrees has to guess the colour of pixels that sit between the original ones, and the result is always slightly softer than what you started with. Tools that offer it rarely mention that.

Common questions

Can I rotate different photos by different amounts? Not in one pass — one setting applies to the whole batch. Do them in two batches, or use this page once per group.

What does flip do? It mirrors the picture. Horizontal flip is what a selfie camera undoes; use it when text in a photo reads backwards. Vertical flip turns the image upside down without rotating it, which is a different result from a 180-degree turn.

Does it keep transparency? Yes, with PNG or WebP output. JPG cannot store transparency, so transparent areas become white.

Does it still work with no connection? Yes. Turning a picture is done by your own device, and the site is kept on it after your first visit. If you are straightening a sideways photo somewhere with no signal, it behaves exactly the same.

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