What does converting WebP to PNG actually do?
WebP was designed to replace both JPG and PNG on the web: lossy mode typically beats JPEG by 25–35% at matching quality, lossless mode beats PNG by around 25%, and both modes support an alpha channel. Every current browser supports it, though some older desktop software still does not. PNG stores pixels losslessly, so an image survives any number of edit-and-save cycles without degrading, and it carries an 8-bit alpha channel for genuine transparency. That fidelity is why it is the standard for logos, icons, UI screenshots and any graphic with sharp edges or flat colour. Converting WebP to PNG therefore re-encodes the same content under a different set of rules — the pixels are decoded from the source image and written out through the destination encoder. Nothing is uploaded: the decode-and-re-encode cycle happens on your own machine.