Image Rotate & Flip

Rotate an image in 90° steps and flip it horizontally or vertically — operations stack, so you can combine them freely. The result is baked into the pixels on a canvas in your browser, then downloaded.

image-rotator · runs locally
Drop an image here, click to browse, or paste from the clipboard. PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF or SVG.

Rotate and flip, in any combination

Each button applies to what you currently see, so operations stack the way you would expect: rotate 90° clockwise twice for 180°, flip horizontally and then rotate to get a mirrored portrait, and so on. Under the hood the tool tracks a single combined transform and re-renders from the original pixels every time — so no matter how many buttons you press, quality never degrades step by step. For 90° and 270° the canvas swaps width and height, and the download is produced at the image’s full native resolution.

The sideways-photo problem

The most common reason to reach for this tool: a phone photo that looks fine in your gallery but appears rotated when uploaded to a CMS, an email or an older app. That happens because the camera stored the pixels sideways and set an EXIF orientation flag that some software ignores. Rotating here fixes it permanently — the corrected orientation is baked into the pixel data itself and the exported file carries no orientation flag, so every viewer agrees on which way is up. If you also want to strip GPS coordinates and other metadata before sharing, run the result through the Image Metadata Remover.

Step by step

  1. Drop, paste or browse for an image — PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF.
  2. Click rotate and flip buttons in any order; the preview updates instantly.
  3. Made a mess? Reset returns to the original.
  4. Download — PNG stays PNG, JPEG is re-encoded at high quality.

Need to trim the frame as well as straighten it? Crop the result with the Image Cropper, or change its dimensions with the Image Resizer.

Frequently asked questions

Is my image uploaded anywhere?

No. The image is rotated and flipped with canvas transforms entirely inside your browser, and the download is generated locally on your device. Nothing is transmitted or stored — the tool even works offline once the page has loaded.

Why do my phone photos show up sideways in some apps?

Phones often save the sensor's native orientation and add an EXIF flag saying "display this rotated". Apps that ignore the flag show the photo sideways. This tool bakes the correct orientation into the actual pixels and writes a fresh file with no orientation flag, so the image looks right everywhere.

Is the rotation lossless for JPEG files?

Honestly: no. This tool decodes the JPEG, rotates the pixels and re-encodes at high quality (0.92), which adds one generation of compression — invisible in normal use, but not bit-exact. Truly lossless JPEG rotation requires a specialised tool like jpegtran that shuffles compressed blocks. PNG sources are re-saved losslessly.

Can I rotate by an arbitrary angle, like 3°?

Not here — this tool sticks to 90° steps plus flips, because those map every pixel exactly onto a new position with zero interpolation or quality loss. Arbitrary angles force resampling and leave wedge-shaped background areas, which is a photo-editor job rather than a quick fix.