Image Tracer is the best Figma vectorize plugin for most people: 809K designers use it to turn raster images into coloured vector layers or a quick tracing mask, and it's free with a paid license for more. The most-installed plugin on this list overall is To Path (866K users), but it bends text and shapes along a curve rather than tracing images.
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Image Tracer
#1 · 809K users
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Export tiny SVG files and control every aspect of how they're exported with presets. Powered by svgo
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Transform photos into editable vector designs. Adjust the threshold or invert the source if needed.
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Convert bitmap-type images/PNG to SVG vectors quickly and easily (Image Tracer).
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Seamlessly convert Pixel Images/JPG/PNG to Full-Color Vector Graphics with AI automation
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Transform images to SVG vectors with one click, easily create illustration styles
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Buying guide
Since February 2026 Figma has its own Vectorize tool in Figma Design, Draw, Slides and Buzz. It's on paid plans only and each conversion draws on Figma's shared AI credits, so free-plan users and anyone tracing in bulk still have good reasons to reach for a plugin. Plugins also give you knobs the native tool doesn't: colour count, thresholds, inversion and local processing.
The list mixes three jobs. Tracers (Image Tracer, Vectorize Bitmap, Tracer, Trace Images) convert pixels to paths. Path tools (To Path, BlendingMe, Really Flatten Vectors) reshape vectors you already have. Exporters (SVG Export, Advanced SVG Export) clean up the SVG code Figma writes. If you're after icon libraries rather than conversion, see icon plugins.
Logos and line art trace well in one colour with a threshold slider (Trace Image does this). Illustrations need multi-colour output; check how many colours a tracer allows before it merges shades.
A traced photo can produce thousands of anchor points. Look for smoothing or detail settings, and run Really Flatten Vectors afterwards to merge overlapping shapes.
Some tracers send your image to a server, others run locally. For client work under NDA, pick one that says it processes on your machine, like Free Vectorizer.
Image Tracer, Vectorizer and Image2Vector sell licenses or credits in the plugin. Free ones like Vectorize Bitmap and Tracer have no paywall but fewer settings.
FAQ
Yes, on paid plans. Figma's native Vectorize tool (launched February 2026) converts a raster image on the canvas into editable vectors in colour, grayscale or black and white, using AI credits. On the free plan you'll need a plugin such as Vectorize Bitmap.
Place the PNG, select it, run a tracer like Image Tracer to get vector layers, then select the result and export it as SVG from the Export panel. Clean up stray shapes before exporting.
Tracers create a path for every colour region, so gradients and photo noise multiply the node count. Reduce colours, raise the threshold, and run the export through an optimiser like SVG Export or Advanced SVG Export.
Figma Draw has a native Text on a path tool: pick it from the toolbar, hover a vector until the cursor changes, and type. To Path predates it and also places shapes and groups along a curve, which is why it's still the most-installed plugin here.
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