When you'd do this
You want BMPs — screenshots, icons, sprites, Paint drawings or exports from old software — in a lossless format the web, editors and documents handle, without losing a pixel.
What to expect
Every opaque pixel is kept exactly. A 24-bit BMP's size is fixed by its pixels — about 35 MB for a 4032 × 3024 photo, 5.9 MB for a 1920 × 1080 screenshot — and the PNG compresses the same pixels without loss. Screenshots and drawings with flat colour shrink the most.
Recommended settings
Nothing to set: PNG is lossless. Resize is there if you want fewer pixels, but keep sprites and pixel art at their original size so their edges stay crisp.
Where it opens
Every browser, editor, office suite, design tool and device — and, unlike BMP, web pages and most upload forms.
Good to know
- If a BMP uses a layout your browser can't read — some very old ones do — its row says so rather than making a broken PNG.
- It won't sharpen or enlarge a small bitmap: Resize only ever scales down.
- Metadata is removed, though BMPs rarely carry any.
How to do it
- Choose your BMP files, or drop or paste them on the page — as many as you like.
- Each is set to PNG. Change one on its own row if you like, and set Resize in Settings.
- Convert all, then download each PNG, or all of them in one .zip.
Questions
- Is BMP to PNG lossless?
- Yes. The PNG holds the BMP's pixels, just compressed: every opaque pixel exactly.
- How much smaller is PNG than BMP?
- It depends on the image: flat-colour screenshots and drawings shrink to a small fraction, photos less. Each row shows the change.
- Can I convert many BMPs at once?
- Yes. Add them all, press Convert all, and download the PNGs in one .zip.