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Image Flipper — Free

Mirror an image horizontally or vertically, or reflect one half onto the other to make it perfectly symmetrical. Lossless, batch-capable, in your browser — nothing uploaded, no watermark.

Drop images here to flip them

or choose them from your device. JPG, PNG and WebP — one or many at once.

Your images never leave this device. Flipping happens in your browser.

Flipping and mirroring are the same thing under two names, and the operation is unusually clean: every pixel keeps its exact colour and simply moves to a new position. Nothing is interpolated, nothing is averaged, nothing is lost. Export as PNG and the result is genuinely identical content to the original, just reversed — which is not something you can say about resizing, rotating by an odd angle, or compressing.

The most common reason people end up here is a selfie. Front-facing cameras usually show a mirrored preview and then save the un-mirrored version, or the other way round, and the result is a photo where the text on a sign or a shirt reads backwards. One horizontal flip fixes it.

The symmetry modes are a different operation worth knowing about. Instead of reversing the whole image, they keep one half and reflect it onto the other, producing something perfectly symmetrical about its centre. It is the effect people are usually after when they search for a mirror tool rather than a flip tool — useful for faces, architecture, patterns and abstract backgrounds.

How to flip an image

  1. 1. Add your images

    Drag them onto the drop zone or choose from your device. Flip one image or a whole batch at once — nothing is uploaded.

  2. 2. Choose a direction

    Horizontal mirrors left to right, vertical mirrors top to bottom, and Both does each at once. The before-and-after panes update instantly.

  3. 3. Or make it symmetrical

    Turn on mirror symmetry to keep one half of the image and reflect it onto the other, producing a perfectly symmetrical result.

  4. 4. Flip and download

    Choose PNG for a lossless result or JPG/WebP with a quality setting, then press Flip and download — individually or as a ZIP.

Which direction do you need?

Frequently asked questions

How do I flip an image for free? +

Drop the image above, choose Horizontal or Vertical, and download the result. There is no account, no batch limit and no watermark — the image is never uploaded, and flipping happens entirely in your browser.

How do I flip an image horizontally? +

Choose the Horizontal option. The image is mirrored left to right, as though you were seeing it in a mirror — the left edge becomes the right edge. This is the most common flip, and the one that makes any text in the image read backwards.

How do I flip an image vertically? +

Choose the Vertical option. The image is mirrored top to bottom, producing an upside-down reflection like the surface of still water. Note that this is not the same as rotating 180° — a vertical flip mirrors the image, while a rotation turns it, and the two give different results for anything that is not already symmetrical.

What is the difference between flipping and mirroring? +

Nothing — they are two words for the same operation, and both are used widely. Flipping an image horizontally and mirroring it horizontally produce identical results. This tool uses "flip" for the direction controls and "mirror symmetry" for the separate feature that reflects one half onto the other.

What does mirror symmetry do? +

Rather than flipping the whole image, it keeps one half — left, right, top or bottom — and replaces the opposite half with a mirrored copy of it. The result is perfectly symmetrical about its centre line. It is a genuinely different operation from a flip, and it is what people usually mean when they ask to "make an image symmetrical" or create a mirror effect.

Does flipping an image reduce its quality? +

The flip itself does not. Mirroring is a coordinate change — every pixel keeps its exact colour value and only moves position, so no information is lost and no interpolation is needed. Any quality change comes purely from re-encoding: choose PNG and the result is lossless, or set JPG/WebP quality to Maximum to keep the loss negligible.

Is a vertical flip the same as rotating 180 degrees? +

No. A 180° rotation is equivalent to flipping both horizontally and vertically at once — which is why this tool offers Both as its own option. A vertical flip alone mirrors only the top-bottom axis, leaving left and right where they are.

Can I flip several images at once? +

Yes. Add as many as you like and they all receive the same flip and symmetry settings. Download them individually or as a single ZIP. Useful for a batch of photos that all came out mirrored, which front-facing phone cameras often do.

Are my images uploaded anywhere? +

No. Every image is read, flipped and re-encoded entirely inside your browser. Nothing is transmitted. That makes it safe for anything you would not upload to an unknown server — ID photos, document scans, private pictures. Once the page has loaded it works offline.

Will there be a watermark on the flipped images? +

No. The output is your image, mirrored, and nothing else added. There is no watermark, no badge, and no paid tier that removes one.

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