# SVG Viewer

Open an SVG in a viewer that sandboxes it, with a backdrop chooser, the size and the element counts. Nothing is uploaded and no script inside can run.

Canonical page: https://filetity.com/svg-viewer

## Capabilities

- Free: Yes, with no watermark and no page limit.
- Account required: No. There is no account system.
- Processed on device: Yes. The file is read by your browser and never uploaded. There is no server to send it to.
- Formats: SVG in, as a file or pasted text. Nothing comes out: this one reads rather than converts.
- Limits: Whatever your browser will draw. A very large SVG is slow to render here for the same reason it is slow anywhere else.
- Mobile: Yes, on any modern mobile browser. Large files are limited by the memory the phone gives the browser.
- Offline: Yes, once the page has loaded. The tool keeps working with no network connection.

## Questions

### Why does it matter how an SVG is opened?

Because an SVG carries code as well as shapes. Dropped into a page directly, a script inside it runs with that page's permissions, and an external reference tells the server that hosts it who opened the file and when. Drawing it inside a sandboxed frame means it renders exactly as it would elsewhere while being unable to do either. Most viewers inline it and never mention this.

### What do the counts tell me?

Whether the file is what you were told it is. A logo that turns out to be four thousand paths is a traced bitmap rather than a drawing, and it will be slow everywhere you use it. Text elements mean live text that needs the font installed to look right, which is the usual reason a design arrives with the wrong letters in it.

### Can I see the code behind the drawing?

Yes, it is shown next to the picture and you can copy it. SVG source is readable, which is its best property: colours are hex codes you can search for, the viewBox is four numbers, and fixing a fill often means changing one word rather than opening a design tool.

### Why is there a checkerboard behind my drawing?

To show you where it is transparent. An SVG with no background looks fine on white and disappears on a dark page, and the file itself gives no clue which is which. Switching between the three backdrops answers that in a second, before you find out on a slide.

## Related tools

- [SVG to PNG](https://filetity.com/svg-to-png): Turn SVG drawings into PNG images at whatever size you need.
- [SVG to JPG](https://filetity.com/svg-to-jpg): Turn SVG drawings into JPG images at a width you choose, on a white background.