Flip an Image

How to flip an image

1. Select your photo.
2. Tap Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical — the preview updates immediately.
3. Both can be combined, which is equivalent to a 180° rotation.
4. Download.

Horizontal versus vertical

• Horizontal (mirror) — swaps left and right. This is the common one: it undoes the mirroring that phone front cameras apply to selfies, and it changes the direction a subject faces so they look into the page rather than off the edge.
• Vertical — swaps top and bottom. Rarer, and used mostly for creating reflection effects or correcting an inverted scan.

When flipping is a mistake

Mirroring reverses anything with a direction:

• Text becomes unreadable — signs, labels, watermarks, tattoos.
• Logos and brand marks read backwards.
• Faces are subtly asymmetric, and a mirrored portrait can look "off" to people who know the person, even if they cannot say why.
• For anything documentary or evidential, do not flip at all.

Nothing is lost

Flipping only reorders pixels; no interpolation happens, so the geometry is lossless. The file is re-encoded on export, which costs the usual small amount for lossy formats — choose PNG or WebP if you need a byte-exact result.

When flipping is the right fix

• Mirrored selfies. Some phones save what the preview showed rather than what the camera saw, which leaves text on a shirt reading backwards. One horizontal flip corrects it.
• Upside-down scans. Feeding a page in the wrong way round produces a vertically inverted scan; a vertical flip restores it.
• Direction of gaze in a layout. A subject looking off the edge of a page pulls the reader's eye away from your content. Flipping horizontally turns them inward — a standard layout trick.
• Reflections. A vertically flipped copy placed under the original makes a water-reflection effect.

Flipping, metadata and batches

The output is rebuilt from the decoded pixels, so EXIF data and GPS coordinates are not carried over — a useful privacy side effect. The orientation tag is applied first, so the image is never flipped twice.

Drop up to 20 images to apply the same flip to all of them, which is what you want when correcting a whole folder of selfies or scans in one pass.