Rotate an Image (and Flip It)
Turn a picture the right way up, flip it, or straighten a crooked horizon. One photo or fifty, with the whole batch turned in one go.
Free forever, no sign-up and no limits, and this tool installs on its own so you can keep it on your home screen.
Turn a picture a quarter at a time, flip it, or nudge a crooked horizon straight. Do one, or turn a whole folder of fifty in the same direction at once, which is usually what a camera full of sideways photos needs.
How to use it
- Choose a picture, or fiftyTap the box or drop them in. A batch skips the preview and applies every turn to all of them together.
- Turn itLeft and Right go a quarter at a time. Flip across mirrors it, flip down turns it upside down. The straighten slider handles the small angles.
- DownloadOne file saves as name-rotated.jpg. A batch saves as one ZIP or a row at a time.
Sideways photos are a metadata problem
A phone almost never turns a photo when you take it. The sensor reads the scene the way it is physically oriented, the file is saved exactly like that, and a small note is added alongside the picture saying which way up it is meant to be. Your phone reads that note, so the photo looks fine. Plenty of other software does not, which is why the same picture arrives sideways in an email, in a document, or on someone else's computer.
This tool turns the pixels themselves. The result needs no note and no cooperation from whatever opens it next, so it looks the same everywhere.
Quarter turns are free, angles are not
Turning by 90, 180 or 270 degrees moves every pixel to a new position without changing any of them. Nothing is blended, nothing is invented, and the picture is exactly as sharp as it was. Any other angle is a different matter: the pixel grid no longer lines up with itself, so the software has to work out new pixels from the old ones.
That is why straightening is a separate control with a small range. It is for a horizon that is two degrees off, which is worth one resample, rather than a general-purpose rotation you might apply over and over.
Why straightening trims the edges
Turn a rectangle a few degrees inside its own frame and four triangular gaps open at the corners. There are only two honest answers: leave white wedges, or enlarge the picture until it covers the frame again and lose a little from the edges. This tool does the second, because a photograph with white corners is not a straightened photograph.
One turn, fifty pictures
A folder of photos from one camera is usually wrong in the same direction, so a batch here applies each turn to everything at once rather than asking fifty times. They are processed one at a time with a running count, so a phone does not run out of memory, and the whole set comes back as a single ZIP.
What this tool will not do
It will not detect which way up a picture should be, or read the orientation note and correct it for you. It does not crop, resize or correct perspective. And it cannot recover the corners that straightening trims, because they were never photographed.
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Questions people ask
How do I rotate a photo that is sideways?
Tap Left or Right once. Each tap turns the picture a quarter, and the preview updates immediately, so if you go the wrong way one more tap in the other direction puts it back. The saved file is genuinely turned, not just displayed turned.
Why does my photo look right on my phone but sideways everywhere else?
Because phones often do not turn the picture at all. They save it the way the sensor read it and add a small orientation note in the metadata saying which way up it should be. Software that reads that note shows it correctly and software that ignores it shows it sideways. This tool turns the actual pixels, so the result looks the same everywhere.
Does rotating lose quality?
A quarter turn moves pixels to new positions without inventing any, so the picture itself is unchanged. JPEGs are re-encoded at high quality when saved, which is where a very slight loss can occur, and it is not visible at normal viewing sizes. The straighten slider is different: any angle that is not a quarter turn has to resample, so use it once rather than repeatedly.
What is the difference between flipping and rotating?
Rotating turns the picture around its centre and keeps everything the same way round. Flipping mirrors it, so text reads backwards and anything asymmetric swaps sides. Flip is what you want for a selfie that came out mirrored; rotate is what you want for a photo that is on its side.
Why does straightening crop the edges slightly?
Because turning a rectangle by a few degrees leaves triangular gaps at the corners. The choice is white wedges or a slightly tighter frame, and this tool enlarges the picture just enough to fill the frame, so you lose a little from the edges rather than gaining corners that were never photographed.
Can I turn a whole folder at once?
Yes, up to 50, and every turn applies to all of them together. That is the point: a folder of photos off one camera is usually wrong in the same direction, so fixing them one at a time is fifty times the work for no extra decision.
Does the file get bigger or smaller?
Roughly the same, since it holds the same number of pixels. It can differ by a few percent because compression works on blocks of the picture and turning changes which details sit in which block. Nothing meaningful is added or lost.
Does rotating remove the location stored in a photo?
Yes. The saved copy carries the pixels and nothing else, so camera data including any location stays in your original and does not travel with the turned file.