Wireless Bitmap

Writable

image

The Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap format, or Wireless Bitmap, is a monochrome image format optimised for use on the mobile web.

Identify it

Extensions	`.wbmp`
MIME types	`image/vnd.wap.wbmpimage/vnd-wap-wbmp`
PRONOM	`fmt/497`
Wikidata	`Q2119856`

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Open it

GD Graphics LibraryOpen sourcewrites · BSD licenses
ImageMagickOpen sourcereads and writes · ImageMagick License
AbydosOpen sourcereads · GNU Lesser General Public License
Apache TikaOpen sourcereads · Apache Software License 2.0
ConverseenOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
imageioOpen sourcereads · 2-clause BSD License
TEAOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
ACDSeereads and writes · proprietary license
Adobe Fireworks CS6reads and writes
Axialis IconWorkshopreads and writes
PaintShop Photo Pro X3reads and writes
PaintShop Pro X4reads and writes
Photo Express My Scrapbookreads and writes
Q122459461writes
ABViewerreads
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0reads
Fireworks MX 2004reads
IrfanViewreads · freeware
MediaRich Serverreads
PaintShop Pro X6 Ultimatereads
Q122522973reads
Q129793reads · shareware
VideoStudio X7reads

Convert it

To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
Portable Network Graphics	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.wbmp out.png` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
Tagged Image File Format	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.wbmp out.tif` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.wbmp out.gif` Reduced to 256 colours.
JPEG File Interchange Format 1.02	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.wbmp out.jpg` Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.wbmp out.webp` Lossy compression.

Sources

From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.

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