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Rotate & flip images

Rotate or mirror your images in one click. Everything runs locally, no file leaves your device.

How Rotate & flip images works

Image Rotate and Flip corrects image orientation or mirrors your photo without re-encoding the pixel data unnecessarily. You can rotate in 90-degree steps (90, 180 or 270 degrees clockwise) or flip the image horizontally or vertically. The transformation is applied via the Canvas API in your browser; the file is read from your device and the result is downloaded back to it, with no server involved.

Mobile cameras sometimes store photos in a rotated orientation and use an EXIF tag to tell software how to display them correctly. If your image looks sideways in certain applications, this tool lets you bake the correct rotation into the pixel data itself, so the image displays correctly everywhere regardless of EXIF support. The output file has the rotation embedded in the pixels rather than in metadata.

Written by Bastien Sulyan

How to use Rotate & flip images, step by step

  1. Drop your image onto the upload area or click to open the file picker.
  2. Click the rotate clockwise or rotate anticlockwise button to turn the image in 90-degree increments.
  3. Click the flip horizontal or flip vertical button if you need a mirror image.
  4. Preview the corrected orientation in the live preview panel.
  5. Click Download to save the transformed image to your device.

Common use cases

  • A photographer corrects a batch of sideways JPEGs from a camera that did not embed orientation metadata correctly.
  • A user uploads a photo that appears rotated in an online form and fixes it locally before re-uploading.
  • A designer creates a mirrored version of a logo to check for visual symmetry issues.
  • A teacher prepares slides and needs to flip a diagram horizontally to match the direction of text flow on a right-to-left slide layout.

Frequently asked questions

Does rotation re-encode my image and reduce quality?

The tool draws the image onto a Canvas at the new orientation and exports it. For JPEG files this involves a lossy re-encode, which can introduce a small quality reduction. For lossless formats like PNG, the re-encode does not degrade quality. If lossless JPEG rotation is a strict requirement, a command-line tool like jpegtran is the appropriate choice.

What happens to EXIF orientation metadata after rotating?

The rotation is baked into the pixel data of the exported file. The EXIF orientation tag, if any, is not carried over into the output. This ensures the image displays at the correct angle in any viewer, regardless of whether that viewer reads EXIF.

Can I rotate an image by an arbitrary angle, not just 90 degrees?

This tool supports 90, 180 and 270 degrees only. Arbitrary-angle rotation introduces transparent or filled triangular regions at the corners and is best handled in a full image editor.

My photo is processed locally but is there any log of the images I open?

No. The image data is loaded into browser memory for the duration of the session. Nothing is written to localStorage, no analytics event includes image content, and no server receives the file.

Does the tool preserve transparency in PNG files when rotating?

Yes. The Canvas is initialised with a transparent background before the image is drawn at the new angle. PNG output preserves the alpha channel, so transparent regions remain transparent after rotation.

Can I rotate a sideways photo directly on my phone?

Yes. This is arguably the most common place to use this tool, since a photo often looks sideways on the very phone that took it. The Canvas API runs the same way in mobile Chrome or Safari as on a computer.