About Unpixel
Unpixel turns PNG and JPG images into clean, scalable SVG vectors. It is built and run by Creative Viral Inc. — small, independent, and deliberately narrow: one job, done properly.
What it does
You drop in a raster image and get back real vector geometry: curves and filled shapes that stay sharp at any size, instead of pixels that blur when you scale them. Logos, wordmarks, clipart, line art, icons, scanned ink drawings and flat illustrations are what it is built for. The result downloads as SVG, PNG, PDF or EPS, at a size you set in pixels, millimetres or inches.
How the conversion works
It is geometry, not guesswork. The engine reads the colours your artwork was actually painted with, decides where each boundary really sits — down to a fraction of a pixel, by reading the anti-aliased ramp the source already contains — and fits curves to those boundaries. No generative model produces or retouches any part of an exported file.
One consequence worth stating plainly: the same image with the same settings always produces the same file, byte for byte. If you re-trace next month, nothing has quietly shifted.
What it is good at — and what it isn’t
Both halves are worth knowing before you subscribe, so here they are together.
- Good: flat artwork with defined colours — logos, wordmarks, badges, clipart, stickers, icons, line drawings, flat illustration. Thin strokes survive, letter counters stay open, and the colour count comes back as the number a person would count, not a confetti of near-duplicates.
- Not good: photographs. Colour and Multi-tone modes will give you a clean, deliberately posterized version of a photo, which is a style, not a faithful reproduction. We do not claim otherwise and we do not sell photo-realistic vectorization.
- Approximate: smooth gradients. Vector fills are flat regions, so a long ramp comes back as bands. It is honest output, but it is not the same picture.
The features page goes into the engineering, and the guide covers every control.
Why the preview is free and the file is paid
Every trace renders complete, at full quality, with no watermark and every control live — without an account and without paying. That is deliberate: you should be able to judge the result on your own artwork before spending anything, because the honest answer for some images is “this one won’t vectorize well”, and you deserve to see that for free. What the plan buys is the file itself — the downloads and exports. Pricing is one line.
Who runs it
Unpixel is operated by Creative Viral Inc. It is an independent product, not a venture-backed team, and it is early: it is being built and measured in the open against a fixed quality scoreboard, and improvements ship when they beat it. If something is wrong with a result, tell us — bad traces are exactly what the next round of work is aimed at.