What it is
The Image Rotator turns a picture 90, 180 or 270 degrees, and flips it horizontally or vertically.
The problem it usually solves
A photo that looks upright on your phone and lands sideways everywhere else. That happens because the camera did not rotate the pixels: it saved them as they came off the sensor and wrote an orientation flag in the metadata saying which way is up.
Software that reads the flag shows the photo correctly. Software that ignores it, which includes plenty of upload forms, older programs and some printers, shows it on its side. The fix is to rotate the pixels themselves, so there is nothing left to interpret.
How to use it
- Add the image.
- Rotate or flip until it looks right.
- Download the corrected file.
Rotating and flipping are not the same
Rotating turns the image around its centre and keeps it readable. Flipping mirrors it, which reverses any text in the picture and swaps left and right.
That matters in two situations. A selfie often arrives already mirrored, and flipping it horizontally puts writing on clothing and signs back the right way round. And anything with text should never be flipped, because the text becomes unreadable.
Rotating by 90 degree steps is lossless: nothing is re-encoded and nothing degrades.
Nothing is uploaded
The whole operation runs inside your browser. Your file is never sent to a server, never stored and never seen by anyone else. There is no queue, no daily cap and no account: the only real limit is your own device.