PNG to SVG Converter — Free Vector Tracing

Tracing, not transcoding

Most conversions on this site move an image between containers: the same pixels, a different wrapper. PNG to SVG is a different species of operation — a redraw. SVG does not store pixels at all; it stores shapes: paths, curves and fills that a renderer can draw at any size. There is no pixel-to-pixel translation between a raster image and a vector one, so this conversion does something more interesting: it inspects your PNG, finds the color regions and edges inside it, and rebuilds them as vector shapes. The output is a genuine SVG — resolution-independent, razor-sharp at 16 pixels and at 16 meters alike, editable in any vector tool. Zooming an SVG is zooming a recipe, not a photograph of the dish: the lines stay lines.

That reframe sets the expectations for everything else on this page. This is a tool for graphics: icons, logos, simple illustrations, wordmarks, diagrams — images made of flat color areas and clear boundaries are exactly the input it was built for. If you have ever needed a logo at a size the original raster could not survive, you know precisely the problem this page solves. It is not a magic general-purpose converter, and the next section says plainly where its limits sit.

What works beautifully, and what does not

When the source is an icon, a logo or any simple graphic with a handful of flat colors and crisp edges, the result is close to indistinguishable from the original at normal sizes — and it now scales without limit. Edges that were jagged at high zoom become smooth curves; shapes built from steps stay clean steps. A traced logo can sit on a business card and on a billboard and be equally sharp in both places, which is the entire reason vectors exist.

Photographs are the honest limit of this tool, and this page labels that limit plainly: tracing simplifies complex gradients and fine detail. A photo's sky bands into layered shapes, skin tones approximate into patches, and noise becomes small blobs; reproducing continuous tone faithfully would take enormous numbers of shapes, so the SVG file can balloon to a size many times larger than the PNG it came from, with a look that reads as stylized rather than true. The same honesty applies to gradients: a two-stop gradient traces cleanly, a photographic blend does not. This converter does not promise photo-grade vectorization — no tracer honestly can — and if your PNG is a photograph, the right move is usually to keep it as a raster (JPG, PNG or WebP), not to trace it.

Getting the best result

Start from the cleanest source you have: the highest resolution available, flat color areas, a transparent or uniform background. A 32-pixel favicon traces into mush — there is not enough information to rebuild clean curves from it; a 512-pixel logo traces into tidy, editable shapes. If your only copy is small, redraw or upscale the artwork at a larger size before tracing — tracing cannot invent detail it cannot see. Text inside the image should be reasonably large, and know that it will not become editable text: the tracer reproduces letterforms as paths, not as a font, so the SVG will look right while its "text" is pure shape.

Check the result at the sizes you actually care about — preview small, preview large — and open it in a vector editor if you plan to work on it further. If the trace comes out heavy or mushy, the fix is almost always in the source: fewer colors, bigger shapes, cleaner edges, then trace again. A minute of simplifying the PNG saves ten minutes of cleaning the SVG.

Privacy and deletion

Uploads go over HTTPS, tracing happens in memory, and both the PNG and the SVG are deleted automatically within 24 hours. No account required, no watermark on the output, no third-party ad networks — the site earns money later from a paid tier, not from your graphics. One file in, one file out, both forgotten.