About SVG2PNG

Jamie Park
UI/UX Designer · 8 years in design systems

I'm Jamie. I design interfaces and design systems. SVG files are my everyday currency — icons, illustrations, component specs. But every time I needed to export an SVG to PNG for a presentation or a handoff doc, I found myself either opening a full design tool (slow) or using an online converter (risky — client work doesn't belong on random servers).

"When I'm working on a fintech client's icon set, I can't just upload their brand assets to whatever 'free converter' ranks first on Google. That's how I ended up building SVG2PNG."

Designer-First, Not Developer-First

Most SVG tools are built by developers for developers. They expose every parameter, every flag, every encoding option. SVG2PNG takes the opposite approach: sensible defaults, visual previews, and controls that match how designers actually think. Scale multiplier (1x through 8x), background color picker, output format selector. That's it. No SVG optimization flags, no XML namespace options, no encoding parameters. You shouldn't need to understand the SVG spec to export a PNG.

What Happens to Your Files

Nothing. They stay on your device. The rendering pipeline — SVG parsing, rasterization at the chosen scale, format encoding — all runs in your browser via the Canvas API. I never see your files. I couldn't access them even if I wanted to, because there's no server to send them to. Disconnect your internet and the tool works identically. That's by design.

Why I Built This Instead of Using What Already Exists

svgtopng.com has ~870K monthly visits and does essentially the same thing. But it only outputs PNG, doesn't support JPG or WebP, caps at 20 files per batch, and has no scale control. Those limitations annoyed me enough to build an alternative. SVG2PNG supports 50-file batches, 3 output formats, scale from 1x to 8x, and works as a PWA offline.

Contact

Design feedback especially welcome — I'm more interested in hearing what's confusing than what's broken. [email protected]