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 repair tool takes a file that will not open and tries every trick a browser can do to bring the picture back. Drop the broken file in and the repair runs immediately: the tool inspects the actual bytes, fixes what is wrong, shows you a report of what it found, and rebuilds a clean, standards-correct JPG you can download. No signup, no upload, and the broken file never leaves your device.
Most "corrupted" JPGs fail for mundane, fixable reasons, and the tool works through them in order. Files that are really a PNG, WebP or GIF wearing a .jpg name are detected by their true signature and rebuilt as genuine JPGs. Junk bytes that a bad download or mail export glued before the JPEG header are stripped so the file starts where a JPEG should. A missing end marker is appended. Truncated files, cut off mid-download, are decoded up to the damage, which usually rescues most of the picture. And when the main image data is beyond saving, the tool looks for the intact preview image that cameras embed inside the file and recovers that instead.
The panel tells you exactly what was wrong and what was done: how much junk was removed, whether the file was really another format, whether it was cut off, and whether the full image or the embedded preview was recovered. You also see the dimensions and the size of the original next to the rebuilt file. If a file genuinely cannot be repaired in a browser, the tool says so plainly instead of pretending.
Whatever was readable is re-encoded as a fresh JPG with correct headers, which also clears the corrupted metadata that often stops files from opening elsewhere. You can save the result as PNG or WebP instead if you prefer, 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, byte inspection and all. Nothing is uploaded to any server, and the rebuilt picture is saved straight back to your device.
Open the broken file in the tool and the repair runs automatically: it detects the real format, strips junk before the header, fixes missing markers and decodes everything readable. The report shows what was wrong, and the rebuilt JPG downloads with one click.
No, and no honest tool can promise that. If the actual image data is missing or overwritten, nothing can recreate it. What usually works: files with damaged headers, wrong extensions, junk at the start, missing end markers and truncated downloads, plus recovering the embedded preview when the main image is gone.
Yes. That is a truncated file, and the tool decodes everything up to the damage and saves it as a clean picture. The missing part cannot be invented, but the readable part becomes a healthy file that opens everywhere.
Common causes: the file is actually a PNG or WebP with a .jpg name, a failed download added junk before the image data or cut it short, or the metadata is malformed. The tool detects and fixes each of these cases and tells you which one applied.
No. The repair, including the byte-level inspection, runs entirely in your browser. The file never leaves your device, which matters precisely because damaged files are often personal ones.