Repair JPG
Fix a broken or corrupted JPG and save a clean copy.
or browse any file, drop it here or paste
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Fix a broken or corrupted JPG and save a clean copy.
or browse any file, drop it here or paste
This free JPG fixer takes a photo that will not open - or opens with half of it gray, shifted sideways or in the wrong colors - and brings back as much of the picture as the file still holds. Drop the broken file in and the repair starts right away: the tool reads the file itself, rebuilds the parts that are damaged, tells you what it found and gives you a clean JPG to download. No signup, no upload, and the broken file never leaves your device.
A damaged start of the file. When the first bytes are wiped or overwritten - a common result of a failing memory card or an interrupted copy - viewers give up at once. The tool finds the picture further in and puts a working start back in front of it.
Broken picture settings. Every JPG begins with the settings a viewer needs to draw it: the picture size and the tables used to compress it. When those are damaged while the picture data is fine, the tool rebuilds them from what is left, from the camera information inside the file or from the picture data itself.
A picture that slides sideways halfway down. A dead stretch on a memory card, a few lost bytes or even a single damaged byte push everything after them out of place, so the rest of the photo is shifted or tinted. The tool finds every place where this happens - one or several - moves each part of the picture back where it belongs, corrects its colors and fills the thin strips that were lost from the rows around them.
Damaged checkpoints. Many cameras and phones write small checkpoints into the picture data. When some of them are damaged, the tool puts them back in order, so the picture picks up again right after the damage instead of breaking off. A damaged stretch between two checkpoints is moved back into place too, instead of showing as a colored line across the photo.
Files with no header at all. Photos restored from a formatted or corrupted card often come back as bare picture data with nothing in front of it. The tool works out the width and settings from the data alone. If that is not enough, add a reference photo - any working JPG taken with the same camera - and its settings are borrowed to rebuild this one.
Cut-off files. A download or copy that stopped partway is decoded up to the damage. Photos brought back by recovery software often end in empty bytes or in pieces of other files instead; the tool stops the picture where its own data ends. Choose Fill gray to keep the full frame with the missing part in gray, or Crop off to keep only the part that came through.
The simple cases. A PNG, WebP, GIF or AVIF with a .jpg name is opened as what it really is, and an iPhone HEIC photo, a TIFF or a camera RAW file with a .jpg name is recognized, with a pointer to the tool that opens it. Junk bytes before or after the picture are removed, and a missing end is added. When the main picture is beyond saving, the tool falls back to the small preview that cameras and phones keep inside the file.
The panel says in plain words what was wrong and what was done, shows the picture size and, when part of the photo could not be saved, how much of it was recovered - so you see at once whether you got the whole photo back. The original and repaired file sizes are listed side by side. If a file genuinely cannot be repaired in a browser, the tool says so instead of pretending.
Whatever was recovered is saved as a standard JPG with correct headers. When a photo from a camera or phone came through whole - nothing lost, filled in or cut away - that JPG is the repaired file itself: the picture is not compressed a second time, and its camera data (camera, date taken, location if it had one) and color profile stay in it. When part of the picture was lost, or when you save it as PNG or WebP, the picture is written to a new file without that data. The repaired file opens in any viewer, editor or phone gallery. You can save it as PNG or WebP instead, rename it before saving, copy it to the clipboard, or share it straight from the result screen.
A damaged file is often a private file: the repair runs entirely in your browser, from reading the bytes to rebuilding the picture. Nothing is uploaded to any server, and the repaired photo is saved straight back to your device.
Open the broken file in the tool and the repair runs automatically: it finds the picture even when the start of the file is damaged, rebuilds broken settings, moves a shifted picture back into place and decodes everything readable. The report shows what was wrong, and the repaired JPG downloads with one click.
No, and no honest tool can promise that. Picture data that is missing or overwritten cannot be recreated - the tool fills or crops that part and tells you how much was recovered. What usually works: a damaged or wiped start, broken picture settings, a picture shifted after a damaged stretch, wrong extensions, junk bytes, missing ends and cut-off downloads. A file with no header left can be rebuilt with a reference photo from the same camera, unless that camera used compression tables made for that one picture.
Yes. That is a cut-off file: the tool decodes everything up to the damage, shows how much of the photo was recovered and lets you keep the gray part or crop it off. The missing part cannot be invented, but the readable part becomes a healthy file that opens everywhere.
Usually, yes. That look comes from a damaged stretch in the middle of the file - sometimes a single wrong byte: everything after it is still there, just out of place or in the wrong colors. The tool moves it back and corrects the colors, also when it happens in several places, and only the thin strips that were actually lost are filled in.
When a file has lost its header completely, the settings needed to read it are gone too. A working JPG taken with the same camera, ideally with the same settings, carries the same kind of settings, so the tool borrows them to rebuild the broken file. Only the settings and the color profile are taken from it - not its picture or its metadata.
No - it repairs files you already have. To get deleted photos back from a card or drive, use a file recovery program first. The photos such programs restore are often damaged or headerless, and those are exactly the files this tool can fix afterwards.
Common causes: the start of the file was wiped, the picture settings are damaged, the file is actually a PNG, WebP or iPhone HEIC photo with a .jpg name, or a failed download cut it short or added junk. The tool detects each of these, fixes what a browser can fix and tells you which one applied.
No. The whole repair runs in your browser. The file never leaves your device, which matters precisely because damaged files are often personal ones.