Unpixel traces a PNG or JPG into a clean, layered SVG. The preview shows the finished vector at full quality — no watermark, no account. When it looks right, a $9.99/month plan downloads it as SVG, PDF, EPS or hi‑res PNG.
Every trace renders the finished vector at full quality — unwatermarked, every control live, as many traces as you like. Zoom to 8× and the preview re-renders razor-sharp from the vector itself; switch on Outlines and see the curve network you'd be buying.
Ask an ordinary quantizer for a five-colour logo and you get fifteen back. Unpixel reads only the artwork's real inks — shade families share one seat, anti-aliasing never invents a colour — so a five-ink design answers five.
A colour trace opens in any design tool already organised. Hide, recolour or merge layers in the preview, and every download carries your edits.
An edge's true position is written into its anti-aliasing, a fraction of a pixel at a time. Unpixel reads it back and places the curve there, off the grid — then describes each boundary once, with as few Bézier anchors as the shape allows.
See how it works
When your image carries real colour — or real tone, like a shaded pencil sketch — Unpixel opens Color mode by itself and says so. Pick a mode yourself and it stops second-guessing you.
A shadow across a photographed sketch gets an Even lighting offer; a trace carrying a pile of noise specks gets Auto-clean. One click each — and when your settings are already right, the chips stay quiet.
Give any export one width in px, mm or inches and the height follows your artwork. A 100 mm export measures 100.000 mm in the app that opens it, and your layer edits carry into every format.
Unpixel's trace core is pure, deterministic geometry — no generative model ever touches your artwork, and nothing appears in your vector that isn't in your file. Re-trace it a hundred times and you get one answer, byte for byte: what you approved is exactly what you get again.
Every engine change must beat a measured record on a gated corpus of test images — a regression blocks the release — and every deploy is re-checked byte for byte against that record.
A raster edge doesn't live on the pixel grid — its true position is written into the anti-aliasing. Here is how Unpixel reads it back, next to a trace that snaps it to the grid.
A boundary pixel's tint records how much of it is ink. That fraction pins where the true edge — the dashed line — crosses the pixel: the position is written into the anti-aliasing itself.
Snap that boundary to the pixel lattice and the edge can only travel along grid lines: corners everywhere, twelve anchors, and each step lands up to half a pixel from the truth.
Unpixel reads the mixing fractions back (the ×s) and fits one curve through the recovered positions — off the grid, three anchors here, held within a tenth of a pixel.
A crisp logo from our test corpus, traced by engine v0.20 — the version tracing your file today — at the default settings:
Every engine change runs against the whole corpus — 44 gated traces, from logos and wordmarks to scans and phone photos — and the same image with the same settings produces the same file, byte for byte, asserted on every row of every run.
Numbers from our own evaluation corpus, built from our own artwork and measured at engine v0.20. The corpus only grows: hard cases stay in it.
Trace as much as you like and judge every result at full quality before you decide anything. The plan is what turns a result into a file.
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