Selfie with the text backwards, or a design you need mirrored.
Pick the axis and download it. Runs in your browser, so the photo is never uploaded, and mirroring costs no quality.
By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: August 2026
You get the real result, not a blurry preview. It runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded, and the file you download is the full result.
On Android, an iPhone or a computer it is the same browser page, with no app to install. It isn't AI either: mirroring just repositions pixels, the same operation whether the photo shows a face, a document or a logo.
Developers who want a mirrored element usually need the CSS transform scaleX(-1) in their own stylesheet rather than a pre-flipped file, but flipping the source image here first still helps when the file itself has to be mirrored.
PowerPoint flips a picture with its own Flip Horizontal control on the Picture Format ribbon, and Figma flips a layer with its own shortcut; both are separate from this page. As an image converter this page does one thing: turn a photo into its mirrored version.
The front camera shows you a mirror image while you are framing the shot, because that is what you are used to seeing. Some phones then save what the lens actually saw, not what you were looking at — so the photo you get back is flipped compared to the preview. Any text in the shot reads backwards, and your own face looks subtly wrong, because you have only ever seen it mirrored.
Left to right is the fix: one press and it matches what you saw on screen, tattoos and parted hair included. An upside down image is what the top-to-bottom button produces instead, for a flat-lay shot or an intentionally inverted layout rather than a backwards selfie.
A flip reflects the image; a rotation turns it. They look similar on a symmetrical photo and completely different on anything with text, a face or a logo in it. If you need a photo that came off the camera sideways set straight, that is the rotate page. To reflect image content across a vertical axis, left-right is the button that matches what a mirror shows; top-to-bottom reflects it across the horizon instead. How to flip an image comes down to that one choice. Like turning, mirroring only moves pixels around, with nothing averaged or thrown away, so the result is saved as a PNG rather than being pushed through JPEG a second time, at the same pixel dimensions it started at.
Printing on transfer paper for a T-shirt needs the artwork mirrored, otherwise every letter comes out backwards on the fabric. The same goes for window vinyl that is read from the other side of the glass, and for a before-and-after pair where you want both faces looking towards the middle instead of both looking the same way.
Front cameras mirror what you see, so a selfie often needs a flip before the text or logo behind you reads correctly. It stays free the whole way, with no watermark, no account and no daily limit, and as a mirror image online tool it works the same for a face, a document or a logo.
Drop your file into the tool above, pick left-right or top-to-bottom, and it mirrors instantly, with no install and no login. To flip photo online from a phone or a computer, or to flip pictures online one after another, the page works the same in any browser tab, one file at a time, and each flip picture online run takes about a second. As a photo flipper it does exactly one job and hands back a full-quality PNG at the same pixel dimensions, with nothing cropped off the edges. As an image flipper online it needs no account, since the whole mirror happens inside your own browser tab.
Left-right is what most people mean by a horizontal image flip: it is the axis a mirror uses, and the fix for a selfie or a photo of scanned text. Use that button to flip photo horizontally online, free and with no upload limit.
Top-to-bottom is rarer: useful for a flat-lay shot, or when you want the image upside down on purpose. It turns the photo over rather than mirroring it sideways, so a face at the top of the frame ends up at the bottom.
Usually there is one specific file in mind. The free tier covers that case: no watermark and no login, and the same output a paid tool would charge for.
How to flip a photo the right way round comes up more than you would think: a scanned page upside down, a selfie that reads backwards, a screenshot mirrored by the wrong app. This tool can flip photos one at a time: pick a direction, download, and drop in the next one. That is all there is to how to flip image files here.
Flipping the picture horizontally is the default button. Flipping it upside-down instead — turning a photo over rather than mirroring it — is the second button next to it, not a separate tool.
A straight mirror can't flip an image but not its text: the whole frame flips, letters included, which is exactly why a selfie with text behind you needs the fix in the first place. Nor can it mirror only the image background and leave a subject facing the original way. It does not invert colours either: a photo negative is a different operation, and mirroring never changes what colour a pixel is. When people say photo inverter flip they usually mean the left-right mirror, which this does; it is not a photo inverter in the colour sense, and it makes an opposite image only in the mirrored sense.
There is no diagonal flip either, only the two clean axes. A request to flip by 90 degrees is usually a rotate question in disguise: turning a photo a quarter-turn is the rotate tool's job, not this one. A mirror flip image pass repositions every pixel across the chosen axis without re-encoding, so nothing is recoloured, resized or blurred, however many times you run it.
Colour and black-and-white photos mirror the same way, and a batch means running several through one after another, each getting the direction you pick.
Picking a direction is the whole interaction: left-right or top-to-bottom, with nothing to configure and no image editor to learn. The download saves the moment the mirror is applied, there is no browser extension, and the result is always a PNG, even for a JPG or WebP file you dropped in.
Whole scanned document came out sideways instead of just one photo? ScanReviver's rotate PDF turns every page — or just the ones you choose — a quarter or half turn at once, instead of fixing them one by one.
Yes — img flip just means this: mirror a picture left-to-right or top-to-bottom, free and in your browser.
Use left to right. That is the axis the front camera flips, so one press puts the photo back the way you saw it on screen.
Flipping reflects the image, rotating turns it. On anything with text or a face in it the two give completely different results. To turn a sideways photo upright, use the rotate page.
No. It moves the pixels without re-encoding them, and the result is saved as a PNG rather than compressed as a JPEG again.
No. Mirroring happens entirely in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Yes — that is exactly what left to right is for. Transfer paper prints through the sheet, so artwork has to be mirrored or the text comes out backwards.
Yes — Flip Image is a free online image flipper: it mirrors a photo left-to-right or top-to-bottom and runs entirely in your browser.
Yes. Flip Image runs entirely in your browser — no download, no app, nothing to install. Open the page, drop your photo in and download the result.
Choose the left-to-right option and the image is mirrored along its vertical axis: the left side and the right side swap. That is what most people mean by flipping a photo horizontally.
Open this page in your phone's browser, tap the upload area to pick a photo from your gallery, choose your flip direction and save the result. No app needed.
Text reads backwards after a horizontal flip — usually the point for T-shirt transfer artwork or window vinyl, but worth checking if you plan to use the image anywhere else.
Upload it above, choose left-to-right or top-to-bottom, and download the mirrored result — it runs in your browser, so nothing is sent to a server first.
Click the picture, then Picture Format → Rotate → Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical; the tab only appears once a picture is selected. That is how to flip image in Word on the desktop, and how to flip an image in Word with several pictures on the page works one picture at a time. In Word Online and the mobile app, how to flip image on Word is simpler: tap the picture, then the picture icon in the toolbar, then Flip. For how to flip an image on Word from the right-click menu, right-click the picture and the same Rotate flyout appears. Either route mirrors the picture only within that file; for a flipped file of its own, drop it in above.
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