Flip Image
100% private — runs on your device, never uploaded. Works offline once loaded.
Flip any image horizontally (mirror) or vertically. Perfect for correcting selfies and reversed photos. Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Flip versus rotate: not the same operation
It's easy to confuse flipping with rotating, but they do different things to an image. Rotating turns the whole image around a centre point, like spinning a photograph on a table. Flipping instead mirrors it across an axis — a horizontal flip swaps left and right as if you were looking at the image in a mirror, while a vertical flip swaps top and bottom, as though the image were reflected in a still pond below it. Text and asymmetric details (logos, watches on a wrist, buttons on a shirt) end up reversed after a flip in a way rotation never produces, which is the giveaway that a photo has been mirrored rather than turned.
Why front-facing camera photos need this
Phone and laptop selfie cameras typically show you a mirrored live preview so it feels natural to look at while framing the shot — but the file that actually gets saved is often the true, unmirrored version. The result: a photo where your part in your hair, or the direction of text on your shirt, comes out backwards compared to what you saw and expected on screen. A horizontal flip corrects this so the saved photo matches what you actually saw in the mirror-preview when you took it.
Other everyday uses
Vertical flipping is less common but shows up in specific workflows: correcting an image that was scanned or photographed through a reflective surface, creating a mirrored reflection effect underneath a product photo for design work, or fixing images from certain microscope and lab camera setups that output an inverted feed. Horizontal flipping is also widely used to create a variant of a stock photo or design asset facing the opposite direction without needing a second photoshoot.
- Fixing a backwards selfie so text and hair parting read correctly
- Making a subject face the opposite direction to fit a page layout
- Creating a mirrored reflection graphic under a product shot
- Correcting an inverted feed from a scanner or lab camera
One thing to check afterwards
If your photo contains any visible text, watermark, timestamp, or a clock face, a flip will reverse it into unreadable mirror-writing. That's usually the confirmation you got the right operation — but if the goal was just to reorient the subject without reversing text, you likely want to rotate the image instead of flipping it.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between flip and mirror?
A horizontal flip mirrors the image left-to-right (like a mirror); a vertical flip turns it top-to-bottom.
Is it private?
Yes — flipping happens on your device and nothing is uploaded.
What's the actual difference between flip and mirror?
They're the same thing — 'mirror' is just the common name for a horizontal flip, which swaps left and right like a mirror image. Whiztools also supports a vertical flip, which swaps top and bottom instead.
Why does text look backwards after I flip my image?
That's expected — flipping reverses everything in the image including any text, watermarks or logos, since it mirrors the whole pixel grid across an axis rather than rotating it. If you need the subject reoriented without reversing text, use rotation instead.
Will flipping change the image dimensions?
No. Unlike a 90° rotation, a horizontal or vertical flip keeps the exact same width and height — only the pixel positions along one axis are reversed.
Does flipping affect image quality?
No, flipping is a lossless pixel-remapping operation with no interpolation involved, so quality is identical to the source image.
Can I flip both horizontally and vertically at once?
Yes — applying a horizontal flip followed by a vertical flip is equivalent to rotating the image 180°, and you can do both in sequence if you need that result.
Is my photo uploaded anywhere to be flipped?
No, the flip is applied locally in your browser, so the image file never leaves your device during processing.
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