By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: September 2026
Drop in a PNG and get a real SVG back: traced into editable vector paths, not a PNG hidden inside an SVG wrapper.
It's a PNG to SVG converter free for daily use: full quality and no watermark on the free file, which is more than the paid vectorizers give away.
Every converter here is free, full size, no account. Photos convert in your browser and never leave it, except camera RAW files and SVG tracing. Those, like video, audio and e-books, need our server, and we delete them right after.
You can convert PNG to SVG free three times a day at full quality, with no watermark and no account, and free convert PNG to SVG in either mode. Each PNG to SVG convert takes a few seconds, and so does each online convert of a JPG or WEBP. After three, a €5 pass raises the limit; the free file is never a lower-quality version. To convert PNG to SVG online there's nothing to install: this PNG to SVG converter online runs on our server.
A PNG is a grid of pixels: scale it up and it goes blurry. An SVG is a set of shapes: it prints razor-sharp at any size, a plotter or cutting machine (Cricut, Silhouette) can follow its outlines, and a designer can recolor or edit it in Illustrator or Inkscape. Print shops, embroiderers and sign makers ask for “a vector file” for exactly this reason. Tracing and vectorizing are two names for the same PNG to vector conversion, and that's what this page does.
The SVG file that comes back opens directly in Inkscape or Illustrator as real, editable paths: every shape can be selected, reshaped or recolored afterwards. Open it in a text editor and you'll see plain PNG to SVG code in the SVG format, standard XML with no PNG hidden inside, not a PNG in SVG clothing (some converters just wrap the original pixels in an SVG tag). There's no SVG editor online built in; this SVG tool builds the shapes, and you edit them in your own software.
Any PNG, JPG, WEBP, BMP or GIF can convert to SVG free here, so it's a vector converter for all of them, so it works as a picture to SVG converter as much as a PNG one. It doesn't draw from scratch like an SVG maker would: it studies the colour regions already there and rebuilds them as paths. As a PNG to vector converter it turns a PNG to vector SVG paths, and you can generate SVG from PNG artwork in either mode. It's an SVG file converter in one direction only. Images are traced at up to 2048 pixels on the long side, more than almost any logo needs, and files can be up to 20 MB.
In color mode, fully transparent areas usually stay empty in the SVG, so a logo on a transparent background comes out without a box behind it. Soft edges and shadows that are only partly transparent become solid shapes, though, so check the result before you rely on a see-through area.
So a PNG to SVG with color result is simply the default. To convert PNG into SVG for a cutting machine, switch to black & white before you drop the file.
Tracing shines on flat artwork: logos, icons, lettering, cartoon-style drawings. A photograph technically converts, but a photo has thousands of tiny color patches, so the SVG gets big and looks like a poster, not a photo. For photos you usually want an upscaler instead. Images are traced at up to 2048 px on the long side, plenty for any logo; a bigger file is scaled to that size first.
A photo to SVG trace still works if you want the poster look on purpose: convert photo to SVG and any photo becomes flat colour areas, in a large file. A sketch, lettering or a hand-drawn logo, on the other hand, is exactly the kind of flat artwork this traces cleanly.
Three vectorizations a day are free at full quality: the real SVG, no watermark, no account, no email. That is the whole file, not a preview. Need more than three a day? A €5 ShinobiTools pass does 50 a day for a month, and works on our other tools too.
That makes it a free PNG to SVG converter in the plain sense: a PNG to SVG converter free of sign-ups. For the other formats it's a free SVG converter too. Most tools that convert from PNG to SVG online show a free preview and ask for money at the download; this one doesn't. Like any free converter it has a daily limit, but the SVG free converter tier hands over the full file, and the SVG trace free count resets at midnight. Any image can convert to SVG online the same way.
Working from a JPG instead of a PNG? JPG to SVG is the same tracer. Not sure which image format you are starting from? Image to SVG accepts either. Need to go the other way instead? PNG to JPG converts a flat image rather than tracing one. Cutting it on a laser or CNC machine? BGNinja's JPG to DXF traces it into closed outlines in millimetres. To create SVG from PNG artwork the tracer follows the colour edges rather than the pixels, which is why a flat logo converts cleanly where a photograph does not. Once it's a vector you can scale it to billboard size without a soft edge anywhere.
A real one. The file contains vector paths you can edit point by point: not a copy of your PNG wrapped in an SVG tag, which is what some converters produce.
Free and real: the first three traces each day are the full file at full quality, real vector paths, with no watermark, no account and no trial period, for good. A €5 pass only adds volume, 50 files a day for a month (it works on our other tools too); it doesn't unlock quality held back on the free tier. To convert PNG SVG free, drop your PNG onto the box above and download the SVG.
For a logo or icon it's usually smaller, because a few shapes take less space than thousands of pixels. For a photo it's much bigger, since every little colour patch becomes its own shape.
Yes: tracing needs more than a browser can do, so this one runs on our own server. The image is deleted the moment your SVG is ready; nothing is kept.
Mostly. In colour mode, fully transparent areas usually stay empty in the SVG; partly transparent edges and shadows become solid shapes, so check the result.
Tracing turns areas of similar color into flat shapes. Artwork with clean areas converts beautifully; a photo becomes a stylized poster-like version of itself. That is how vectorization works, not a quality setting.
20 MB per file, traced at up to 2048 px on the long side. Two trace at a time, so at busy moments you may wait a few seconds for your turn.
Start from the largest, cleanest PNG you have. Tracing rebuilds the image as shapes, so there's no resolution to lose afterwards, but a small or blurry PNG gives rough outlines.
No. The tracing runs on our server and produces real editable vector paths, the same kind Illustrator's Image Trace makes (in Illustrator: Image Trace, Expand, Save as SVG, the paid route). Photoshop is built for pixels and doesn't trace a PNG into clean paths; Inkscape's Trace Bitmap can. The file is deleted as soon as the result is back.
No, this page only goes from PNG to SVG. To convert SVG to PNG, export from Inkscape or Illustrator, or open the SVG in a browser tab and take a screenshot. As a converter to SVG it takes PNG, JPG, WEBP, BMP and GIF (first frame), but not PDFs or documents; export those as PNG first.
Drop it onto the box above, wait a few seconds for the trace to finish, and download a real SVG with editable vector paths.
Yes: colour mode traces each colour area into its own shape, which suits logos best; black and white gives one clean outline. Either way it is a free PNG to vector converter that traces real paths, not an embedded image, and the files open in Illustrator, Inkscape and Cricut Design Space. Logos trace cleanly; photos convert too, but come out looking like posters.
Yes: PNG to SVG Cricut files come out best in black and white mode, one clean outline per shape. Import the PNG to SVG file into Design Space as a cut file.
One that traces real paths: check that the file isn't just a PNG wrapped in an SVG, which some online tools do. This one traces, and downloads a true vector.
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