Rotate and flip images
Fix a sideways photo or mirror an image in two clicks. Rotation happens instantly in your browser with a live preview, and the file never leaves your device.
100% private: files are processed in your browser and never uploaded to any server.
How it works
- Drop an image into the box above — a live preview appears.
- Rotate 90° left/right or flip horizontally/vertically until it looks right.
- Download the corrected image in its original format.
Why photos appear sideways in the first place
Phone and camera sensors are fixed in the body, so every photograph is captured in the same orientation regardless of how you were holding the device. Rather than rewriting the pixels, the camera records how it was tilted in a metadata field called EXIF orientation, and leaves it to whatever opens the file to rotate the display accordingly.
That works until something does not read the tag. Old software, some upload processors, certain print services and a number of web forms ignore EXIF orientation entirely, and your carefully framed portrait arrives on its side. Rotating the image properly rewrites the actual pixel data and clears the tag, so the picture is upright everywhere with nothing left to misinterpret.
Quarter turns and everything else
Rotating by 90, 180 or 270 degrees is a clean operation: pixels are moved to new positions and nothing is invented or destroyed. Every pixel survives exactly as it was, and the result is as sharp as the original.
Angles in between are a different matter. Straightening a tilted horizon by three degrees means resampling — recalculating every pixel from its neighbours, which softens the image slightly — and it leaves empty wedges in the corners that have to be cropped away. The correction is usually worth it, since a visibly tilted horizon is more distracting than a marginal loss of sharpness, but it is not the free operation a quarter turn is.
Good to know
Photos often appear sideways because cameras record the orientation in metadata rather than in the pixels, and some software ignores that tag. Rotating here rewrites the actual pixels, so the image displays correctly everywhere afterwards — including in the applications that were ignoring the metadata.
Rotations in 90° steps and mirroring just rearrange existing pixels, so there is no resampling and no softening. The only quality cost is the JPEG re-encode when saving, which is imperceptible at the quality used here; PNG output is fully lossless.
You can combine operations — rotate then flip — before downloading, and the preview shows the result as you go. Arbitrary-angle rotation, which requires expanding the canvas and does resample, is not covered here.
Frequently asked questions
Why does my photo appear sideways in the first place?
Cameras record orientation in metadata, and some apps ignore it. Rotating here rewrites the actual pixels, so the photo displays correctly everywhere.
Does rotating lose quality?
90° rotations and flips rearrange pixels without re-sampling. JPGs are re-encoded at high quality when saving, which is imperceptible; PNG output is lossless.
Can I rotate by a custom angle?
This tool covers 90° steps and mirroring. Arbitrary-angle rotation (with automatic canvas expansion) is on our roadmap.
Is the image uploaded?
No — preview, rotation and saving all run inside your browser.