This would be nice to have. I usually put all the images through Photoshop to convert them to Webp. It would be a timesaver if we could do this in Figma itself.
Webflow offers support for WebP now. Please let us export this format directly from Figma! (Especially since your competitor Sketch allows it natively).
Yes, I usually use Sketch for this too. I have the plugin, but itâs not great. I use the plugin here and there. My workflow requires that I have Sketch with Figma. WebP images are vital for fast-loading websites and web apps.
Figma will play animated gifs when in viewing a prototype.
It would be good if Figma would also support this for animated WebP and animated AVIF image files, which are a lot better than .gif files.
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Yet another team requesting for this feature, Figma.
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Definitely a needed feature
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 âeternal subscriptionâ model has become obscene. While Iâve 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 youâre in the US youâll 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, letâs get WebP as an export format (with a quality/compression value).
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this should be natively supported.
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messaging to keep it alive
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We need this to speed up our Figma â Webflow process. Please make it happen. Thanks!
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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. Itâs frustrating that the capability isnât 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.
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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 Iâm sure that adding support for it wouldnât be a big deal engineering wise.
I use cwebp | WebP | Google for Developers and Iâm sure Figma could too.
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@Figma_Support please add this feature it would help our team a lot
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@Figma_Support when are you updating your Export functionality module to include webp output?
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I wonder how it is possible that an application for digital product design does not allow to export the resources in WebP format.
Itâs such a basic and necessary functionality right now that I donât 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.
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