FAQ

VecSnap, in plain answers.

Who VecSnap is, what it converts, what a credit buys and what happens to your images: 12 questions, answered.

VecSnap turns images into SVG files you can work with: real shapes, few anchor points, layers you can find. Converting and previewing are free, and one credit keeps an image with every format included.

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About VecSnap

What is VecSnap?

VecSnap turns images into SVG files you can work with: real shapes, few anchor points, layers you can find. It runs in your browser at vecsnap.com, and converting is free.

Who makes VecSnap?

VecSnap is built by the VecSnap team, as a product company. Its engine is our own, built and trained in-house, and nothing is resold from another service. The company behind VecSnap is named in our terms of service.

About VecSnapTerms of service

What is VecSnap for, and what is it not for?

VecSnap is for drawn images: logos, icons, stickers, mascots and flat illustrations, including images made with ChatGPT, Gemini or Midjourney and drawings made in Procreate, ready for print, the web or a cutting machine. It is not made for photos, and it makes no images of its own: it converts the ones you have.

A Procreate drawing to vectorAn SVG for Cricut

How is VecSnap different from Vectorizer.AI and Vector Magic?

Both trace an image on their own sites, and Vector Magic sells a desktop app too. VecSnap draws your image again as shapes with only the anchor points each needs, shows every point before you pay, and sells images one at a time. Each comparison reads the other tool's own pages, with the date.

Vectorizer.AI and VecSnapVector Magic and VecSnap

Converting

Can ChatGPT, Gemini or Midjourney make an SVG?

Not as a picture: their image tools work in pixels. VecSnap redraws such a picture as an SVG of shapes.

AI images to SVG

How many anchor points will my file have?

As few as each edge needs. VecSnap shows the count before you keep a file, beside what potrace leaves for the same image, so you can check it yourself.

How to reduce anchor points

Files and formats

What files do I get?

Every image VecSnap unlocks comes as a Web file, the lightest SVG, for code, and a Design file, with named layers and real shapes, for Figma and Illustrator. It also comes as a PNG, a PDF and an EPS for screens and print. When VecSnap can cut the drawing into pieces, it adds a cut-ready SVG and a DXF, and it shows you the cut before you spend a credit.

What is an SVG file?SVG vs PNGWhat is a vector file?Sizing an SVG for the webBringing an SVG into FigmaClean an SVG you already haveWhat is an EPS file?Every guide

Does the same image always give the same file?

Yes. VecSnap gives the same image the same file every time, until its engine improves.

Credits and price

What does a VecSnap credit buy?

One credit unlocks one image for good, with every format, re-run and re-download included. Converting and previewing are free.

See pricing

What if a result is not right?

Tell VecSnap which result, and the credit comes back. A conversion that fails never costs a credit.

Refund policy

Your images

What happens to my images?

With a VecSnap account, each image stays in your library with its results until you delete it; an upload that never became a result is deleted after 7 days. Nothing you convert is shown to anyone else, and there is no public gallery.

Privacy policy

The names we use

One name for each thing, on every page, in every file and in every email.

Anchor point
A point an edge passes through, counted the way Figma and Illustrator count them. Curve handles are not counted.
Shape
A circle, a rectangle or a path in your file, as your design tool shows it.
Text you can still edit
A word kept as a word in your layers, set in its matching open font, when VecSnap can read it.
File size
How much the SVG weighs, in KB: what a page loads and a server stores.
Web file
The lightest SVG of a result, for websites and code.
Design file
The SVG with named layers and real shapes, for Figma and Illustrator. The files for print and for making things are made from it.
Credit
What unlocks one image for good, with every format, re-run and re-download included.

Drop an image. Check the file.

Converting is free. You see the whole result before you spend anything.