paths for the same picture, at the same fidelity — and a file most editors can't work with
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Drop a PNG, JPEG or WebP. You get back an SVG with a few thousand clean, grouped paths — one you can open and edit.
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How it works
Auto-trace gives you a file nobody can edit.
Ordinary tracing draws every speck of noise as its own shape, so what you open is a haystack of slivers. CrispSVG works out which regions are flat colour, which are gradients and which are texture, then draws each one the way it should be drawn — real gradients, real circles and rectangles, colours grouped the way you'd group them yourself. Open it in Illustrator, Figma or Inkscape and actually change something.
Drag to compare. Whole image, actual size — bamboo, ink cranes, marble veining, halftone dots and a gradient sun, all in one file.
Where the difference shows
Same image. Same fidelity. A fraction of the paths.
Faithful by brute force is still unusable: selecting one leaf means selecting four hundred slivers, and the file is heavy enough that the editor fights you the whole way. Fewer paths isn't a smaller file for its own sake — it's the difference between artwork you can select and artwork you can only look at.
- Conventional auto-trace
- 35× more
- CrispSVG
- A few thousand
- Gradients
- Real fills
paths, grouped into named colour layers you can select as one
true linearGradient and radialGradient with editable stops, not stacks of flat bands
The ratio comes from a measured run on the collage above, rendered and compared pixel-for-pixel against the original. Your own image will land somewhere else — a flat logo is far simpler, a photograph far busier — but the gap is the point, not the count.
Same settings, three kinds of image
It doesn't need tuning
These ran on the defaults — no per-image settings, no sliders to fiddle with. Ink line work, flat pastel geometry, photographs, watercolour texture and soft gradients all come out of the same pass.
Ink line work over flat colour
Seven content types, one pass
What comes out
An SVG built the way you'd build it
<circle> <rect>
Shapes stay shapes
A circle is written as a circle, not a 200-point polygon. Drag the handle and it's still a circle.
<radialGradient>
Gradients are gradients
Smooth blends are detected and written as real gradient fills with editable stops.
<g fill="#0B7A8C">
Colours are grouped
Every shape of the same colour sits in one group. Change the group, change the artwork.
Before you sign up
It takes minutes, not seconds
Most auto-tracers hand you a file in about two seconds. CrispSVG takes roughly two to four minutes for a one-megapixel image, because the slow part is the part you're here for: working out which regions are flat colour, which are gradients, which are texture, and drawing each one the right way.
If you need a result in two seconds, use something else — genuinely. If you need a file you can open and edit afterwards, that's the trade we made on purpose.