Open in Artboard, remove background
PNG carries alpha; JPG can't. The right intermediate before bg-removal.
Every JPEG save adds new compression artifacts on top of the old ones — that's the cascade. PNG freezes the current state losslessly. The converter sites wrap the conversion in three banner ads or queue you. The command-line tools live only on a terminal. Morph re-encodes via Canvas directly in your browser tab — drop the .jpg, pick PNG, save the file. No further loss, no upload, no quota. Free for everything that runs on your device; AI is paid in credits.
Reads any JPG variant — baseline, progressive, EXIF-laden. Whatever's in the file decodes once, then writes lossless PNG bytes. Stops the recompression cascade dead. No 5MB cap, no ad wall, no daily compute meter.
Once in PNG, every subsequent crop, retouch, or save is lossless. The right shape for restoration work or a Artboard editing session.
PNG carries alpha; JPG can't. The right intermediate before bg-removal.
Photos stay on your device. No log, no server.
The everyday case is photo restoration. JPEG re-compresses every save — open, crop, save, open, retouch, save again, and the file gets fuzzier each round. PNG is lossless: once converted, every subsequent edit-and-save freezes the pixels exactly. The second case is alpha. JPEG cannot store transparency at all. If the next step is removing the background, masking out a subject, or compositing onto a new layer, PNG is the only sensible intermediate. The third case is OCR and documentation: JPEG smears text edges into compression artifacts; PNG keeps every pixel where it was. Morph runs all three of these locally for free on your device a month covering every Morph surface.
If you're processing tens of thousands of JPGs per night through a CMS pipeline that handles versioning and CDN distribution, server-side tools with proper queueing remain the right shape. For everyone else converting a single photo before opening it in Artboard or sending it to a printer, Morph is faster.
No — PNG cannot recover detail JPEG already discarded. What it does is freeze the current state losslessly so further edits, crops, and re-saves don't compound new compression artifacts on top of the existing ones.
Three real reasons. (1) Photo restoration: PNG holds your edits losslessly while JPEG re-compresses every save. (2) Transparency overlay: drop the JPG into Artboard, remove the background, export PNG with alpha. (3) Document scans: JPEG smears text edges; PNG preserves them perfectly for OCR or print.
The command-line tools are excellent and free — but only in a terminal. Morph runs the JPEG decoder + PNG encoder via Canvas directly in your browser tab — no upload, no queue, no ad wall, no daily quota.
Yes, often dramatically. JPEG is lossy compression; PNG is lossless. A 200 KB JPG can become a 2 MB PNG carrying the same visual information. That's the price of stopping the recompression cascade.
Yes. Drop a folder, drop fifty photos, drop two hundred scans. The free tier has no batch limit.
Yes — Safari on iOS supports JPEG decoding and Canvas PNG export fully. The conversion runs locally on your iPhone, never touches a server.