Side-by-side comparisons of popular file formats to help you choose the right one
Compare image formats to find the right one for your project.
PNG and JPG are the two most widely used image formats on the web, yet they serve fundamentally different purposes.
PNG has been the go-to format for lossless web images since the late 1990s, but Google's WebP format — introduced in 2010 — was engineered specifically to replace it with better compression at equivalent quality.
JPG has been the dominant format for photographic images on the web for over 25 years.
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and PNG (Portable Network Graphics) represent two fundamentally different approaches to storing visual information.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) has been synonymous with short animations on the web since the early days of the internet.
HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container), based on the HEVC/H.
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) and PNG (Portable Network Graphics) are both capable of lossless image storage, but they serve different worlds.
Compare document formats for editing, sharing, and archival.
PDF (Portable Document Format) and DOCX (Office Open XML Document) represent two fundamentally different philosophies of digital documents.
PDF/A is not a different format from PDF — it is a constrained subset of PDF specifically designed for long-term digital preservation.
EPUB and PDF represent two opposing approaches to digital document presentation.
Compare data interchange formats for APIs, spreadsheets, and storage.
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language) are the two dominant formats for structured data serialization in modern software development.
JSON and XML are the two most significant data interchange formats in the history of web development.
CSV (Comma-Separated Values) and JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) are two of the most common formats for exchanging structured data, but they model data in fundamentally different ways.
YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language) and TOML (Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language) are both designed primarily as configuration file formats that prioritize human readability.
Markdown and HTML both produce formatted text content for the web, but they approach the task from opposite directions.