Bulk Image Rotate
Turn or flip a whole folder of photos at once — and fix the ones that show up sideways. Free, no account needed.
Drop your images here
or select them from your computer — up to 200 at a time
You can also paste images with Ctrl+V
Supported formats: JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, GIF or AVIF in — JPG, PNG or WebP out · max 30 MB per fileUp to 200 files · nothing is uploaded
BMP, GIF and AVIF are read and come back as JPG, PNG or WebP — a browser canvas cannot write them. Animated files are not accepted.
How to use
Add your images
Drop a folder onto the box above, or press Select images. They stay on your machine.
Turn or flip
Rotate left or right a quarter at a time, mirror, or flip. Every row shows the result before anything runs.
Rotate and download
Take one image, or the whole batch as a ZIP. Filenames and formats are kept.
Why photos come out sideways
A phone or camera does not usually turn the picture when you hold it on its side. It saves the image the way the sensor sees it and adds a note, the EXIF orientation tag, saying which way is up. Your phone’s gallery reads the note; plenty of websites, upload forms, older Windows programs and print shops do not, and show the photo lying on its side. Rotating the file itself — rather than trusting the note — is the fix that works everywhere.
This tool shows each image the way it is meant to look, turns it the way you choose, and saves the result upright in the pixels, with no orientation note left to disagree with it. Scans fed into a scanner the wrong way round, screenshots of a landscape video and exports from apps that ignore the tag are fixed the same way.
Rotate, mirror and flip — what each does
Rotate left and Rotate right turn every image a quarter at a time; press one twice for 180°. A quarter turn swaps the width and height, so a 4000×3000 landscape becomes 3000×4000, and the row shows the new size before anything runs. Horizontal mirrors the image left to right, the way a selfie camera does — useful for text that came out backwards or for making a set of product shots face the same way. Vertical flips it top to bottom. They combine: a turn and a mirror can be applied in one pass.
Quality and formats
Every file comes back in the format it went in as. PNG is lossless, so a turned PNG holds exactly the same pixels, transparency included. JPG and WebP have to be encoded again to be turned; JPG goes through mozjpeg at 92% quality, which is visually identical to the original. If you also need smaller files, run the result through the bulk image compressor; to give them all one shape, the bulk image cropper can turn and crop in a single pass.
Why rotate in the browser?
Turning a picture is arithmetic on pixels your computer already has. Uploading a folder of photos to a server to have that done, then downloading them again, is slower, costs someone money per image and puts your photos on a machine you do not control. Here the work happens on your own device, which is why there is no sign-up and no limit beyond what your browser can hold.
Frequently asked questions
- Are my images uploaded anywhere?
- No. Every image is turned in your browser and never leaves your computer, which is why there is no account and no usage limit.
- Does rotating a JPG lower its quality?
- A JPG has to be re-encoded to be turned, so it is saved again at 92% quality with mozjpeg, which looks the same as the original. PNG is lossless, so a turned PNG is pixel for pixel the same picture. Each file keeps its format.
- My photos look sideways in some apps and upright in others. Will this fix it?
- Yes. Phones often save a photo sideways with a note (the EXIF orientation tag) saying which way is up, and not every app reads it. This tool turns the image as you see it here and saves the result upright in the pixels themselves, with no orientation note, so it looks the same everywhere.
- Can I rotate by any angle, like 45°?
- No — quarter turns only (90°, 180° and 270°), plus mirroring horizontally or vertically. Those are the turns that keep every pixel without cropping or adding corners. To straighten a slightly tilted photo, use a photo editor.
- Can I turn only some of the images?
- One setting applies to the whole batch. To turn different images different ways, run the ones that need the same turn together, then the next group — or remove the rows you want to leave alone before you press the button.
- How many images can I rotate at once?
- Up to 200 per batch, each up to 30 MB. A file that turns out to be corrupt fails on its own and the rest of the batch carries on.