Rotate & Flip Images

Rotating turns the whole picture; flipping mirrors it:

A vertical flip and a 180° turn both put the top at the bottom, but only the turn keeps the picture the right way round. Flip an upside-down photo and it ends up upright but mirrored, with any writing reading backwards. Flipping both ways at once is the same as turning 180°.

Phones don’t always turn the picture itself when you hold them sideways. Many save the image the way the camera sensor captured it and add a note to the file’s EXIF metadata, called the orientation tag, saying which way is up. Apps that read the tag show the photo upright; apps and websites that ignore it show it on its side.

Look at the photo’s thumbnail here:

• Sideways here too: the picture itself is on its side. Choose 90° if its top is on the left, or 270° if its top is on the right, and apply.
• Upright here but sideways elsewhere: your browser reads the orientation tag and the other app doesn’t. Rotating would start from the upright view and make it sideways. Instead, leave the rotation at 0° with no flip and press Save Upright Copy. The copy’s pixels are turned the way the photo looks here, with no tag, so the other app shows it upright too.

Every image saved here has the rotation built into its pixels and no orientation tag, so it looks the same in every app and can’t be turned twice.

The pixels are moved, not resized, so the image keeps its full resolution and nothing is blurred. The file is saved again, though:

• PNG stays PNG and is rotated without any loss: every pixel keeps its exact colour.
• JPG stays JPG, saved at 92% quality. JPEG compression is lossy, so each save loses a tiny amount of detail. You won’t see it after one rotation, but it adds up if the same file is saved again and again, so start from the original each time.
• WebP stays WebP, also at 92% quality, and keeps any transparency.
• GIF, BMP and AVIF images come out as PNG, and iPhone HEIC photos as JPG. An animated GIF becomes a still image.

The rotated copies have no EXIF metadata, so camera details and GPS location are removed; your originals keep theirs. To check what a photo contains, use the metadata viewer.

Add as many images as you like: the same rotation and flip apply to all of them. There’s no fixed limit, though very large batches depend on your device’s memory. Press Download All to get one ZIP, rotated_images.zip. If two files share a name, the second is numbered (photo_rotated-1.jpg), so neither is overwritten.

If different photos need different turns, work in groups: rotate one group, download it, press Clear, then add the next. Changing the setting after applying brings back Apply Transform, so you can also redo the same images with a new setting.

Your browser does the rotating, on your own phone or computer, so your photos and the rotated copies are never uploaded or sent anywhere.

To check, open your browser’s developer tools and watch the Network tab while you rotate. The only requests are the page’s own code (such as the HEIC decoder) and anonymous page-view counts, described in our privacy policy. After your first visit, the tool works offline too.