BMP to JPG

Convert BMP bitmaps to JPG free and shrink them dramatically. Nothing is uploaded.

  • Free
  • Never uploaded
  • No sign-up

Drop files here

or browseJPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, SVG, HEIC, PDF

How to do it

  1. Drop your BMP files below.
  2. Format is already set to JPG. Quality 85 is a safe default.
  3. Press Convert and see how much smaller each file got.

BMP stores every pixel raw, and it shows

A BMP has essentially no compression — a 1920 x 1080 image occupies around 6 MB regardless of what it contains. That was reasonable in 1990 and is indefensible now. Converting a photographic BMP to JPG routinely produces a file 95 percent smaller that looks the same. This is the single largest saving of any conversion on this site.

Where BMPs still come from

Old Windows software, scanner drivers, medical and industrial capture tools, and screenshots from legacy systems all still emit BMP. It is almost never the format anyone actually wants to keep — it is just what the machine wrote.

Choose PNG for screenshots

If the BMP is a screenshot, a diagram or anything with text and hard edges, convert to PNG instead. You still get most of the size saving and JPG's compression artefacts around text are avoided entirely.

Questions

Is this free?

Yes. No account, no watermark, no cap on how many files you convert.

Are my files uploaded?

No. The conversion runs inside your browser on your own device. Nothing is sent to a server — you can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it still works.

How much smaller will it get?

For photographs, typically 90 to 98 percent smaller. BMP is uncompressed, so almost any compression is a dramatic improvement. The saving is shown for each file.

Will quality drop?

JPG is lossy, so technically yes. At quality 85 the difference is invisible for photographs. For screenshots and line art, use PNG instead.

Can I convert a folder of them?

Yes. Drop as many as you like and download one zip. Large uncompressed BMPs use a lot of memory, so very big batches may be slower.

What about transparency?

Most BMP files have none. Any that exists is flattened onto the background colour you pick, because JPG cannot store transparency.