diff --git a/recipes/flet-libwebp/build.sh b/recipes/flet-libwebp/build.sh
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/flet-libwebp/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -eu
+
+# The image-format detection only feeds the cwebp/dwebp/gif2webp tools, which we
+# delete; disabling it keeps configure from probing for host libpng/jpeg/tiff/gif.
+# --prefix must be the real staging dir, not overridden at `make install` time:
+# libwebp.la links libsharpyuv.la, and libtool refuses to install a shared library
+# into a directory that disagrees with the -rpath it was linked with.
+./configure --host=$HOST_TRIPLET --build=$BUILD_TRIPLET --prefix=$PREFIX \
+    --enable-libwebpmux --enable-libwebpdemux \
+    --disable-png --disable-jpeg --disable-tiff --disable-gif \
+    --disable-gl --disable-sdl --disable-wic
+# libtool's linux defaults hardcode -rpath $PREFIX/lib into the shared libraries,
+# baking the build machine's absolute path into a published wheel. Nothing on the
+# device lives there; jniLibs resolves these by SONAME.
+sed -i.bak 's|^hardcode_into_libs=.*|hardcode_into_libs=no|' libtool
+# Fail loud if libtool ever renames the variable: the silent outcome is a
+# published wheel with the build machine's paths in it.
+grep -q '^hardcode_into_libs=no' libtool || { echo "libtool rpath patch failed"; exit 1; }
+
+make -j $CPU_COUNT
+make install
+
+rm -rf $PREFIX/bin $PREFIX/share
+rm -rf $PREFIX/lib/{*.la,pkgconfig}
+
+# Android links these dynamically (Pillow's _webp.so gets a DT_NEEDED and flet
+# stages the .so into jniLibs); iOS is static-only, and there libtool leaves
+# sharpyuv out of libwebp.a -- Pillow's setup.py already adds -lsharpyuv there.
+if [ $CROSS_VENV_SDK == "android" ]; then
+    rm -f $PREFIX/lib/*.a
+fi
diff --git a/recipes/flet-libwebp/meta.yaml b/recipes/flet-libwebp/meta.yaml
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index 00000000..0fe2c9d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/flet-libwebp/meta.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{% set version = "1.6.0" %}
+
+package:
+  name: flet-libwebp
+  version: '{{ version }}'
+
+build:
+  number: 1
+
+source:
+  url: https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-{{ version }}.tar.gz
+
+patches:
+  - config.patch
+
+about:
+  # PATENTS is the "additional intellectual property rights grant" every source
+  # header points at; it is not matched by the automatic COPYING/LICENSE search.
+  license_file:
+    - COPYING
+    - PATENTS
+  license: BSD-3-Clause
diff --git a/recipes/flet-libwebp/patches/config.patch b/recipes/flet-libwebp/patches/config.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cfc95353
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/flet-libwebp/patches/config.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+config.sub 2024-05-27 knows `*-apple-ios` but rejects the simulator triplets forge
+uses (`arm64-apple-ios-simulator`, `x86_64-apple-ios-simulator`) at its final
+kernel/OS consistency check. Accept `ios-simulator` there, as flet-libtiff does.
+
+diff -ruN a/config.sub b/config.sub
+--- a/config.sub	2025-07-09 22:53:34
++++ b/config.sub	2026-09-01 00:48:59
+@@ -2259,6 +2259,8 @@
+ 	--*)
+ 		# Blank kernel and OS with real machine code file format is always fine.
+ 		;;
++	ios-simulator*-)
++		;;
+ 	*-*-*)
+ 		echo "Invalid configuration '$1': Kernel '$kernel' not known to work with OS '$os'." 1>&2
+ 		exit 1
diff --git a/recipes/pillow/meta.yaml b/recipes/pillow/meta.yaml
index 40cc6293..0031ab5c 100644
--- a/recipes/pillow/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/pillow/meta.yaml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ requirements:
     # PNG support is internal: libpng is not used.
     - flet-libjpeg 3.0.90
     - flet-libfreetype 2.13.3
+    - flet-libwebp 1.6.0
 
 # {% if not version or version >= (12,0,0) %}
 # pillow >= 12.x  (12.x drops `self.add_imaging_libs = ""` from
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ patches:
 # {% endif %}
 
 build:
-  number: 1
+  number: 2
   script_env:
 # {% if sdk == 'android' %}
     # pillow's setup.py manually probes `self.compiler.{include,library}_dirs`
diff --git a/recipes/pillow/tests/test_pillow.py b/recipes/pillow/tests/test_pillow.py
index 7873d51e..9f186af7 100644
--- a/recipes/pillow/tests/test_pillow.py
+++ b/recipes/pillow/tests/test_pillow.py
@@ -51,3 +51,149 @@ def test_font():
     assert any(p != (255, 255, 255) for p in pixels), (
         "font didn't render any non-white pixels"
     )
+
+
+def test_webp_available():
+    """WebP support is compiled in (PIL._webp imports)."""
+    from PIL import Image, features
+
+    assert features.check("webp") is True
+    # Non-empty version string; not pinned, so a libwebp bump doesn't break this.
+    assert features.version("webp")
+    assert ".webp" in Image.registered_extensions()
+
+
+def test_webp_no_unsupported_warning():
+    """Opening a WebP emits no 'WEBP support not installed' warning."""
+    import warnings
+
+    from PIL import Image
+
+    with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as caught:
+        warnings.simplefilter("always")
+        img = Image.open(join(dirname(__file__), "webp_quadrants_lossy.webp"))
+        img.load()
+
+    assert not [w for w in caught if "WEBP support not installed" in str(w.message)]
+
+
+def test_webp_decode_lossless_file():
+    """Decode a committed lossless WebP; quadrant colours are exact."""
+    from PIL import Image
+
+    img = Image.open(join(dirname(__file__), "webp_quadrants_lossless.webp"))
+    assert img.size == (8, 8)
+    assert img.format == "WEBP"
+
+    rgb = img.convert("RGB")
+    assert rgb.getpixel((1, 1)) == (255, 0, 0)
+    assert rgb.getpixel((6, 1)) == (0, 255, 0)
+    assert rgb.getpixel((1, 6)) == (0, 0, 255)
+    assert rgb.getpixel((6, 6)) == (255, 255, 0)
+
+
+def test_webp_decode_lossy_file():
+    """Decode a committed lossy WebP (VP8, what CDNs serve) within tolerance."""
+    from PIL import Image
+
+    img = Image.open(join(dirname(__file__), "webp_quadrants_lossy.webp"))
+    assert img.size == (8, 8)
+
+    rgb = img.convert("RGB")
+    expected = {
+        (1, 1): (255, 0, 0),
+        (6, 1): (0, 255, 0),
+        (1, 6): (0, 0, 255),
+        (6, 6): (255, 255, 0),
+    }
+    for xy, want in expected.items():
+        got = rgb.getpixel(xy)
+        assert all(abs(g - w) <= 24 for g, w in zip(got, want)), f"{xy}: {got} != {want}"
+
+
+def test_webp_lossless_roundtrip():
+    """Encode and re-decode a lossless WebP without loss."""
+    from PIL import Image
+
+    src = Image.new("RGB", (16, 16))
+    src.putdata([(x * 16, y * 16, 0) for y in range(16) for x in range(16)])
+
+    out = io.BytesIO()
+    src.save(out, "WEBP", lossless=True)
+    data = out.getvalue()
+    assert data[:4] == b"RIFF"
+    assert data[8:12] == b"WEBP"
+    assert data[12:16] == b"VP8L"
+
+    rt = Image.open(io.BytesIO(data))
+    assert rt.convert("RGB").tobytes() == src.tobytes()
+
+
+def test_webp_lossy_roundtrip_alpha():
+    """Round-trip RGBA through the lossy encoder, preserving alpha."""
+    from PIL import Image
+
+    src = Image.new("RGBA", (16, 16), (0, 128, 255, 255))
+    for y in range(8):
+        for x in range(8):
+            src.putpixel((x, y), (0, 0, 0, 0))
+
+    out = io.BytesIO()
+    src.save(out, "WEBP", quality=80)
+    data = out.getvalue()
+    assert data[12:16] == b"VP8X"
+
+    rt = Image.open(io.BytesIO(data))
+    assert rt.mode == "RGBA"
+    assert rt.getpixel((2, 2))[3] == 0
+    assert rt.getpixel((12, 12))[3] == 255
+
+
+def test_webp_metadata_roundtrip():
+    """Save a still WebP with EXIF, proving libwebpmux is linked."""
+    from PIL import Image
+
+    payload = b"MM\x00*\x00\x00\x00\x08\x00\x00"
+    out = io.BytesIO()
+    Image.new("RGB", (8, 8), (10, 20, 30)).save(
+        out, "WEBP", lossless=True, exif=b"Exif\x00\x00" + payload
+    )
+
+    # Pillow strips the "Exif\0\0" prefix before writing the chunk; tolerate
+    # either convention so the assert pins the round-trip, not the framing.
+    got = Image.open(io.BytesIO(out.getvalue())).info.get("exif")
+    assert got is not None, "no exif chunk survived the round-trip"
+    assert got.removeprefix(b"Exif\x00\x00") == payload, got
+
+
+def test_webp_animation_decode():
+    """Read a committed animated WebP frame by frame (libwebpdemux)."""
+    from PIL import Image
+
+    img = Image.open(join(dirname(__file__), "webp_anim_rgb.webp"))
+    assert img.n_frames == 3
+    assert img.is_animated is True
+
+    for i, want in enumerate([(255, 0, 0), (0, 255, 0), (0, 0, 255)]):
+        img.seek(i)
+        assert img.convert("RGB").getpixel((4, 4)) == want
+        assert img.info["duration"] == 100
+
+
+def test_webp_animation_encode():
+    """Write a 3-frame animated WebP and read it back (libwebpmux)."""
+    from PIL import Image
+
+    frames = [Image.new("RGB", (8, 8), c) for c in ((255, 0, 0), (0, 255, 0), (0, 0, 255))]
+
+    out = io.BytesIO()
+    frames[0].save(
+        out, "WEBP", save_all=True, append_images=frames[1:],
+        duration=80, loop=0, lossless=True,
+    )
+
+    rt = Image.open(io.BytesIO(out.getvalue()))
+    assert rt.n_frames == 3
+    for i, want in enumerate([(255, 0, 0), (0, 255, 0), (0, 0, 255)]):
+        rt.seek(i)
+        assert rt.convert("RGB").getpixel((4, 4)) == want
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