PNG → SVG
Convert PNG to SVG, and see the whole result before you pay
Drop a PNG below. The traced vector renders at full quality — unwatermarked, every control live, no account — and you can zoom into it to 8×. When it looks right, a $9.99/month plan downloads it as SVG, PDF, EPS or hi-res PNG.
The converter
Drop a PNG or JPG hereChoose a PNG or JPG
Measured, not promised: a crisp logo traces to one path, 70 anchor points and a 2.9 KB file at 99.5% pixel agreement with the source — the same file, byte for byte, every time.
What a PNG gives the tracer
PNG is lossless, so the edges in a PNG are the edges the artist drew — no compression halo, no blocky noise around the shapes. That is the input a tracer is happiest with, and it is why the things that usually live in a PNG — logos, icons, badges, wordmarks, clip art — come back as a handful of clean paths rather than a cloud of fragments.
Transparency survives: a transparent PNG traces to an SVG with nothing drawn behind the artwork, so the result drops onto any background in your design. Anti-aliasing is used, not fought: the soft edge pixels say where the true boundary sits to a fraction of a pixel, and each curve is placed there instead of on the nearest whole pixel.
Logos and wordmarks
One path per ink, letter counters kept open, corners that stay corners. Every logo in our test corpus traces with zero specks at the default settings.
Icons and clip art
Flat colours are counted the way you count them — a five-ink design gets five layers, not fifteen — and each ink becomes a layer you can hide, recolour or merge before you download.
Screenshots of artwork
A logo saved from a screenshot still traces. The one limit is tiny type in a tiny image: letters under about 11 px can be eaten by the default speckle removal, so upload the largest version you have.
The preview is free. The file is the paid part.
Every trace renders the complete result at full quality: unwatermarked, every control live, zoomable to 8× with the picture re-rendered from the vector at each step, and an Outlines view that shows the curve network itself. That is the whole free experience, it needs no account, and it is unlimited. The plan is what turns a result into a file.
Free, unlimited
- The full-quality preview of every trace, no watermark
- Every mode and every control, live
- Zoom to 8× and the Outlines view
- The colour layer panel: hide, recolour, merge
- No account, nothing to sign into
The plan
$9.99 / month · USD
- Download SVG, PDF & EPS — unlimited
- PNG at 1–4×; sizes in px, mm or inches
- Full-colour tracing in per-ink layers you can edit
- No account: pay with an email address, keep the link
- Cancel any time; a first subscription has a 14-day no-questions refund
Priced at parity with vectorizer.ai's US plan. Pricing in full.
Measured, not promised
Every change to the tracing engine runs against a fixed corpus of 44 traces before it ships — logos, wordmarks, clip art, scans, screenshots, phone photos — and each row is gated on pixel similarity, edge structure, speck count, anchor count and time. A change that regresses a gate does not ship. Engine v0.19, the version tracing your file today, holds all 44.
- A crisp logo traces to one path, 70 anchor points and a 2.9 KB file at 99.5% pixel agreement with the source, with zero specks.
- A seven-ink colour badge traces to nine layers, one per ink, at 99.5% pixel agreement — 574 anchors in all.
- The same image with the same settings produces the same file, byte for byte, every time — asserted three times on every row of every run.
Numbers from our own evaluation corpus, built from our own artwork and measured at engine v0.19. The corpus only grows: hard cases stay in it.
When a PNG does not trace clean
A converter that only shows its good side is not worth the price it asks, so here is the other side. Each of these shows in the preview before any payment.
- A PNG saved from a JPG still carries the JPG’s grain. Raise Grain cleanup, or take the Auto-clean chip the app offers when it sees a grainy result.
- A photograph saved as PNG comes back posterized: Colour mode builds the file from flat inks, so smooth tone becomes a few flat steps. This converter is for logos, clip art and flat artwork; it is honest about photographs rather than good at them.
- A gradient becomes bands for the same reason. What you see in the preview is exactly what the file contains.
- A very small PNG — a 200-pixel favicon, a thumbnail — has little edge to work with. Upload the largest version you have, and lower Speckle removal if small type breaks up.
Questions people ask before dropping a PNG
Does the SVG keep my PNG’s transparency?
Yes. A transparent PNG traces to an SVG with no background rectangle — only the artwork is drawn, so it sits on any colour in your design or on the page. B&W and Multi-tone write a transparent background by default as well; choose Solid background in the Style panel if you want one baked in.
Is the preview really the full result?
Yes. The preview is a server-rendered picture of the finished vector at full quality — no watermark, no reduced detail, every control live. Zoom to 8× and each level is rendered again from the vector; switch on Outlines and you are looking at the curve network itself. What the plan adds is the file.
Can I edit colours and layers before downloading?
In Colour mode every ink is its own layer, listed top layer first. Hide, recolour or merge layers in the panel, or group same-colour layers wherever that cannot change the picture, and the edits are applied to the file you download.
My PNG has small text — will it survive?
Text at normal sizes traces cleanly, with the counters (the holes in a, e and o) kept open. Very small type in a very small image — letters under about 11 px in a file a couple of hundred pixels wide — can be eaten by the default speckle removal. Upload the largest version you have, and lower Speckle removal if letters break.
What does the plan cost, and how do I cancel?
One plan: $9.99 a month in US dollars, priced at parity with vectorizer.ai’s US plan. It unlocks unlimited SVG, PDF, EPS and PNG downloads, with your layer edits applied.
Cancel any time from the billing portal — the link is emailed to you, since there is no account to log into. Access runs to the end of the period you have paid for, and a first subscription has a 14-day no-questions refund. The terms state both.
Do I need an account?
No. Previews need nothing at all. Buying needs an email address at checkout; your access is tied to that address and comes back on any device through a one-time emailed link. There is no password and nothing to sign into.
What happens to my PNG after I upload it?
It is sent to our server, traced in memory and rendered for the preview. It is not written to disk and not kept after the request, beyond a short in-memory cache so that zooming does not trace it again. The privacy page describes exactly what is processed and by whom.
Is there a size limit?
PNG and JPG up to 30 MB. Our hosting platform carries about 4.5 MB in a single request, so a larger file is scaled down in your browser before upload and the app says so next to the original’s size (“traced at 2455×1878”). The SVG is resolution-independent either way; a very large scan is simply traced at reduced resolution.
What about WebP, AVIF or HEIC?
Not yet. Drop one and the app names the format and asks for a PNG or JPG export instead of failing silently — iPhones and several design tools export HEIC or AVIF by default, so this happens a lot. Export a PNG or JPG first and drop that.
Why does my gradient come out as bands?
Colour mode builds the SVG from a palette of flat inks, so a smooth gradient becomes a few flat steps. That is what this converter is for — logos, clip art, flat artwork — and it is where photographs and gradient-heavy designs come back posterized. The preview shows exactly what the file would contain, before any payment.
Drop a PNG and look at the result
The complete vector at full quality, before you decide anything.
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