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General
Is SVGIFY really free?+
Yes. Every tool on the site is free, with no daily limit and no watermark. Because processing happens in your browser rather than on our servers, there's no per-conversion cost for us to recoup — so there's no meter running.
Do you store or see my files?+
No. Every tool runs as JavaScript inside your browser tab. Your image or SVG is read from your device, processed on your device, and the result is offered back as a direct download — it's never sent over the network. We have no server component that could log or store a file even if we wanted to.
Do I need to create an account?+
No account, no email, no login. Open a tool page and start working.
Does it work offline?+
The Compressor, Minifier and SVG-to-PNG tools work fully offline once the page has loaded. Image to SVG loads its tracing engine from a CDN on first use, so it needs one initial connection; after that, it also works without internet for the rest of your session.
Image to SVG
What image formats can I convert?+
PNG, JPG and WEBP are supported as input. Output is always standard SVG 1.1 markup.
Why does my photo produce a huge, messy SVG?+
Tracing works by grouping pixels into flat color regions and drawing a path around each one. Photos with soft gradients and lots of fine detail need many regions to look right, which means many paths — and a large file. Tracing is best suited to logos, icons, and flat illustrations; for detailed photography, a raster format is usually still the better tool for the job.
Can I edit the SVG afterward?+
Yes — the output is a normal SVG file with real <path> elements, editable in Illustrator, Figma, Inkscape, or any code editor. If you want to shrink it further, run it through the SVG Compressor.
Compressor & Minifier
Will compressing change how my SVG looks?+
At the default settings, no — rounding coordinates to two decimal places and removing unused metadata has no visible effect at any normal display size. Pushing precision down to zero decimals can occasionally introduce very slight distortion on complex curves, which is why it isn't the default.
What's the difference between the Compressor and the Minifier?+
They share the same underlying engine. The Minifier defaults to prioritizing structural cleanup — comments, metadata, editor-only attributes. The Compressor defaults to prioritizing numeric precision reduction, which tends to save more bytes on path-heavy files. Both tools expose the same options, so you can configure either one however you like.
Is this the same as SVGO?+
It targets the same problem — bloated exported SVG — with a simpler, purpose-built engine that runs entirely client-side. It won't cover every edge case a full SVGO plugin pipeline does, but it handles the common cases: comments, metadata, editor namespaces, empty attributes, whitespace, and coordinate precision.
SVG to PNG
What's the maximum export size?+
Export size is limited by your browser's canvas size limit, which is typically well above 8,000 × 8,000 pixels — far beyond what any icon or illustration export needs.
My SVG uses an external font or image — why is it missing in the PNG?+
Browsers restrict canvas rendering of SVGs that reference external resources (fonts, linked images) for security reasons. Embed fonts and images directly inside the SVG file (as base64) before converting, and they'll render correctly.