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BMP to JPG

Convert BMP to JPG in your browser. Free, no upload, no signup.

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About the BMP to JPG

BMP is Bitmap. Utterly simple and uncompressed, which makes it readable by anything, including very old and very small systems. Enormous. A photo that is 2 MB as a JPG can be 30 MB as a BMP, for no visible gain.

JPG is JPEG. Built for photographs. Its compression discards detail the eye is least sensitive to, so a photo can drop by 90% with no visible change. No transparency at all, and it puts visible halos around hard edges — which makes it the wrong choice for text, logos and screenshots.

What changes in this conversion: BMP is lossless and JPG is not, so this conversion discards detail permanently. Keep the original if you may need to edit it later.

The whole conversion happens on a canvas in your own browser. The file is read from disk with the File API, decoded, redrawn and re-encoded locally, so it is never uploaded and there is no size limit beyond your device's memory.

How it works

  1. Drop in a BMP file — it is read by your browser, not uploaded.

  2. It is decoded and re-encoded as JPG on your own device.

  3. Download the result. Nothing is stored anywhere.

Frequently asked questions

How do I convert BMP to JPG?
Drop your BMP file onto this page and the JPG version is produced immediately, in your browser. There is no upload, no queue and no account — the conversion runs on your own device using the canvas API.
Does converting BMP to JPG lose quality?
BMP is lossless and JPG is not, so this conversion discards detail permanently. Keep the original if you may need to edit it later.
Is my BMP file uploaded to a server?
No. The file is read by your browser, decoded and re-encoded on your device, and handed straight back. Nothing is transmitted, which matters when the image is a document, a screenshot of something private, or a photograph with location data in it.
Why would I convert BMP to JPG?
Built for photographs. Its compression discards detail the eye is least sensitive to, so a photo can drop by 90% with no visible change. That is usually the reason. Enormous. A photo that is 2 MB as a JPG can be 30 MB as a BMP, for no visible gain.

Privacy

Everything happens locally. Your files are read by your own browser, processed on your device, and never uploaded — closing the tab is all it takes to erase them.

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