WebP support for animated prototyping and export

Our team needs this feature to handoff asset to developer, it would be very helpful

We are also looking for this feature!

Another team who need this feature. Work your magic Figma.

A lot of times I exclusively need to export in WebP. I have used TinyImage, which is quite good, but have you seen their pricing?

Plugin pricing and the “eternal subscription” model has become obscene. While I’ve seen other larger app-like plugins with a higher cost, everyone should know that this plugin actually costs more than the entire Figma platform itself minus FigJam, both monthly and yearly (as of today December 2, 2022).

Monthly $19 x 12: $228
Figma monthly $15 x 12: $180

Yearly [$14 x 12]: $168
Figma yearly [$12 x 12]: $144

The other issue is the AUD conversion, which means if you’re in the US you’ll pay more than the listed price. I made the mistake of signing up for TinyImage in August (when it was $15/mo) and was charged $15.87 and $15.62 for August and September (this may be Paypal-specific but regardless, it does occur), and have canceled.

So yes, let’s get WebP as an export format (with a quality/compression value).

this should be natively supported.

messaging to keep it alive

We need this to speed up our Figma → Webflow process. Please make it happen. Thanks!

The plugin for WebP images is annoying and overly complicated. This is the one missing feature that makes me want to return to Sketch. WebP support is necessary to be a competent tool for the modern web. It’s frustrating that the capability isn’t native.

This is crazy that this has not been responded to by @Figma_Support. This should be one of the easiest things to implement, especially as there are plugins that do it, and they only have access to the API.

Another problem with TinyImage besides the steep cost for exporting is that its webp implementation I think is flawed: it appears to compress a webp only after exporting it first as a png and the quality setting effects both the png quality as well as the webp compression. So, when you lower the quality from 100% (which you should in most cases) the output gets degraded both at the png step and the webp step.

Whereas if you instead export as png directly from Figma to files, then run those files through a 3rd party converter (several have been mentioned in this thread), you can get a higher quality webp image for the file size than doing so with TinyImage.

Bumping this because it should be really straightforward to implement. As an engineer it sucks to have to do that extra step of converting the image for the sake of optimizing network usage, and I’m sure that adding support for it wouldn’t be a big deal engineering wise.

I use cwebp  |  WebP  |  Google for Developers and I’m sure Figma could too.

@Figma_Support please add this feature it would help our team a lot

@Figma_Support when are you updating your Export functionality module to include webp output?

I wonder how it is possible that an application for digital product design does not allow to export the resources in WebP format.
It’s such a basic and necessary functionality right now that I don’t understand why we have to beg them to added.
And the saddest thing is that there is not even a response from someone from @Figma_Support in this thread. They make me think that writing here means wasting my time.

@Figma_Support another voice to say this is a missing feature causing devs at our org to take more time than needed… this should be an export option

webp is an incredibly storage efficient file format. I’m yet another voice here to say we need this!

At this point we are going to get webp when it’s obsolete and replaced by avif.

I’m literally in the process of using ChatGPT to help me make a plugin for good webp compression exports. Asking it to help me create it so there is no cost and I can lunch it as a free plugin 😅

It should be the platform’s number 1 priority. Since the format has been widely accepted for a long time, many other more basic tools already have this option native.

I am also looking for this feature!

I need this feature too! the developers keep asking me to convert for them, because as viewers they can’t use the webp plugin, and its really annoying

Give us WebP please ! It’s a web standard since years and all devs are asking this format ! Why is it complicated to add ?

UP, please support modern images format

I believe that I am more effective and powerful as a front-end developer when working with the WebP format.

If the Figma team is looking for a good compression engine, the one that https://webp-converter.com/ uses is the best I’ve tried.

Related to this, it would be wonderful if the built-in exporter for jpg, png, svg, and pdf would utilize “tiny” engines. The default output from Figma is usually very compatible but often several times larger in file size than it could be.