WebP support for animated prototyping and export

This is a standard file format for images on web pages, please advise on timeline for this addition to export options. Thank you!

+1, and adding WebP support with createImage
https://developers.figma.com/docs/plugins/api/properties/figma-createimage/

Web performance is no longer optional, it’s a core part of the user experience. Yet today, 2026, exporting assets from Figma still requires external tools or manual workflows when teams want to use modern formats like WebP.

Adding WebP as a native export option in the export panel would solve a very real and widespread problem:

• Smaller file sizes without sacrificing quality
• Faster load times for websites and apps
• Better alignment with modern frontend standards and performance budgets
• Reduced reliance on third-party tools or batch conversion scripts (love your plugins folks, but let’s be realistic, it should be a core feature)

Right now, the gap between design and production increases unnecessarily because designers can’t export assets in the formats the modern world actually uses. This creates friction, slows down workflows, and introduces inconsistencies (e.i. WordPress natively supports it now).

Figma has always been about closing the gap between design and development. Supporting WebP export would be a natural and impactful step in that direction.

Even a simple implementation (like PNG/JPG parity with a quality slider) would already bring massive value to teams working on performance-sensitive products.

To me, this isn’t a niche need, it’s becoming the default for modern web delivery.

So, let’s make Figma outputs production-ready by default! 🥹🙏🏻

PS. yes, this is another request for WebP, like a monthly or yearly reminder that we need one.

Fully agree with this.

Today (and since few years ago), WebP is no longer "nice to have" - It's a standard. Yet, we still rely on external tools or plugins, which breaks workflow and adds avoidable steps.

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Boggles the mind just how big of an oversight this is to not have as a core feature yet.

This has been requested many times, as far back as five years ago:

There’s nearly no reason to use another format on the web aside from SVG. If they’re not going to release it, they’re just keeping Hypermatic in business at this point.

It’s wild that they don’t have this.
 

This is one of those moments where I can just hear some product owner at Figma saying, “We need moar AI” and then saying they don’t need to build native webp export because “Plugins exist that do that.” 
 

For the love of all things holy, please Figma, just give us native webp image export. It’s irresponsible to not have it at this point. 
 

They’ll “save” designers all kinds of time by putting AI in their product. But then we waste the time we “save” exporting and optimizing images. 
 

Ok, community, let’s do your thing. Figma will make this happen if the community pushes for it.

Dave

Totally support to implement WEBP in Figma. As we use 3rd party to get WEBP.