PNG image repair tool

The best tool to repair and fix your corrupted or broken PNG images.

  • Made in Germany
  • EU GDPR compliant
  2. Drag & Drop

    Drag your image file onto this website. You can do this anytime.

  3. Paste image URL

    Paste an image URL from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.

  4. Paste Base64 Data URI

    Paste a Base64 Data URI from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.

  5. Paste image data

    Paste an image from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.

Allowed file formats: PNG (max. 8 MiB)

Features

  • Removes invalid chunks
  • Converts Apple's proprietary PNG extension (with a CgBI chunk) back to a general readable PNG
  • Discards invalid data after an IEND chunk
  • Corrects incorrectly specified IHDR chunk (width, height, color type, bit depth etc.)
  • Corrects incorrect CRC checksums
  • Extends cropped PNGs with dummy data to create a complete image again
  • Corrects wrong filter values in the IDAT chunk
  • Replaces incorrectly used CRC checksum in the Deflate stream with an ADLER32 checksum
  • … much more

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Why should I use this image repair tool?

Many other tools that try to repair corrupted PNG images use only very simple mechanisms to recover the image data, so unfortunately they often fail.

This tool tries to recover a valid image even if only the pure data section (IDAT chunk) of the image is left. The other data needed to display the image (IHDR chunk) is determined via heuristics. Even in the case of an incomplete data section, the data is adjusted in such a way that a valid image can be generated again with a large part of the recovered image data.

In this way, it is often even possible to recover image data that has been intentionally disturbed, e.g. in the context of a CTF photo forensics competition.

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News
Christoph Erdmann
COD says Goodbye
2026-06-24

After 10 years of compress-or-die.com, it’s time for me to say goodbye. It’s been a great time—I’ve learned a lot technically, but I’ve also met some wonderful people.

compress-or-die.com was created back then to get the most out of graphics for small banners. At the time, I was still working at an advertising agency. And over time, it just kept growing and growing.

But some of you may have noticed that over the past two years, there have been hardly any changes, and there hasn’t been much from me to read—which was quite different back in the day.

But a lot has changed in my personal life: children, new and different hobbies, and health issues have shifted my focus in other directions. And so, I had less and less time and motivation left for this project that was once so close to my heart.

For this reason, this chapter is now coming to an end. I’d like to thank all of you for using COD and for providing such great feedback, which helped COD grow so much.

I’d especially like to thank the Patrons who have covered the server costs over the past few years. Thank you so much!

On July 25, 2026, I will send COD into its well-deserved retirement.

All the best to you all,
Christoph

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