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Image Rotator

Rotate images 90°, 180° or any angle

By Guga — BrowserTools maintainer, Tbilisi, Georgia Updated 2026-08-29
Free Private No uploads
What is Image Rotator?

Quarter turns are the common case: a phone photo saved sideways, a scan fed in the wrong way, a screenshot that needs a portrait crop. A button cycles the angle through 90, 180, 270, and 360 degrees, and the output canvas swaps width and height whenever the turn is an odd multiple of 90, so a landscape image rotated 90 correctly comes out portrait with the right proportions. Because those angles are exact, they introduce no resampling and no lost pixels — every point of the original lands somewhere in the output. The two flip buttons are here too, mirrored across the horizontal or vertical axis, which is the quickest way to correct a selfie or reverse text. Output is PNG. Arbitrary angles such as 15 or 45 are not available here; for perspective correction you want a proper editor.

Rotate images in 90-degree steps — 90, 180, 270 or a full turn. Fixes sideways photos and straightens scans in seconds, all locally.

Private Image Rotator In Your Browser

Image Rotator is processed locally with client-side JavaScript. Your files never touch a server, and there is no queue to wait in.

Step-by-Step

How to use Image Rotator

1

Put a file into the Drop an image here target; any format your browser can display is taken.

2

Use the Change to N° button to step the angle through 90, 180, 270, and back to 360.

3

Press Rotate N° to apply it — the canvas dimensions swap automatically on odd quarter turns.

4

Use Flip horizontal or Flip vertical if you need a mirror instead, then hit Download.

Key Capabilities
  • Angle steps in exact 90-degree increments, cycling 90 → 180 → 270 → 360
  • Canvas width and height swap automatically on odd quarter turns so proportions stay correct
  • Horizontal and vertical mirror buttons are included in the same panel
  • Exports PNG, and quarter turns plus flips are lossless pixel operations with no resampling
Common Use Cases
  • A photographer correcting an orientation flag their camera failed to honour before uploading to a client gallery.
  • An archivist straightening a scan that went into the feeder upside down.
  • A designer mirroring a logo concept to show a symmetrical counterpart in a presentation.
Clear Answers

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I rotate by an arbitrary angle like 15 degrees?
No. The control steps in 90-degree increments only, and that restriction is a feature: quarter turns move every pixel without interpolation, so nothing is resampled or softened. An odd angle would require rotating into a larger canvas and filling the exposed corners, which is a different operation with a different result.
Does the EXIF orientation flag get applied?
The browser applies the flag when it decodes a JPEG, so an image that was only tagged as rotated often appears the right way up before you touch anything. If it still looks wrong, the file is genuinely sideways and a quarter turn will fix it.
Why PNG?
A rotation does not need re-compression, and PNG is the format that will not add any. Writing JPG here would pile a second lossy generation on top of a file that may already have one.
Is the file uploaded?
No. The transform is a canvas draw in your own tab, and no request leaves the browser.