Convert AVIF to PNG
A lossless, universally readable copy of an AVIF image, transparency included.
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How it works
Add your images
Drag and drop, paste, or pick files. They upload over an encrypted connection.
Pick a quality or a target size
Use the quality slider, or tell it exactly how many KB or MB you need.
Download
Save each file, or grab them all at once as a ZIP.
AVIF saves a great deal of space, but plenty of software still cannot open it: older versions of design tools, office suites, print services and many upload forms. PNG has been readable almost everywhere for decades. Converting gives you a file that will open wherever you send it.
Unlike a conversion to JPEG, this one keeps transparency. An AVIF logo or cut-out arrives as a PNG with the same alpha channel, soft edges included. The PNG is also lossless, so nothing further is lost in the conversion itself, although anything the AVIF encoder discarded earlier stays discarded.
The price is size. A PNG of a photograph can easily be ten times larger than the AVIF it came from, because it stores each pixel exactly. If the picture is a photo with no transparency and you only need compatibility, JPEG is the more economical target. The AVIF is uploaded over an encrypted connection and decoded on our own servers; we do not keep it, and the PNG is deleted within one hour.
PNG as a working copy
An AVIF is a finished product. It is built to be looked at, and each time it is opened, changed and saved as AVIF again it loses a little more. A PNG is a material you can work with. Convert once, and the picture can be retouched, layered in a design program, annotated, cropped ten different ways and saved a hundred times with no further loss. When the work is done, export whatever the destination needs. People who receive AVIF files from a client or download them from a brand portal usually want exactly this: a copy they can open in the software they already use.
Colour depth and HDR
AVIF can hold ten or twelve bits per channel and the extended brightness of HDR. The PNG produced here has eight bits per channel in the standard sRGB colour space, which is what screens, office programs and browsers expect. For ordinary pictures nothing visible changes. A true HDR image is different: its brightest highlights are brought down to the white of a normal screen, and it can look a little flatter than it did in an HDR-capable viewer.
If you need the full range for grading or print, convert with a professional tool that writes 16-bit files. For everyday use, eight-bit PNG is the format that causes no surprises.
Keeping the PNG to a reasonable size
Before you accept a 15 MB download, ask what the PNG is for. If it is going into a slide or a document, Resize it to the width it will be shown at; a 1600 pixel image is ample for a full-screen slide. If it is a logo or an illustration with flat colours, lower the quality below 90 and the picture is stored with a palette, often at a fifth of the size and with no visible change. Only photographs that must stay exact need the full lossless file, and those are the rare case.
Frequently asked questions
Why is the PNG so much larger than the AVIF?
PNG stores every pixel without loss, which takes far more space than AVIF's compression, especially for photos.
Is transparency kept?
Yes. The PNG has the same transparent and semi-transparent areas as the AVIF.
Should I pick PNG or JPG?
PNG for transparency, graphics and editing; JPG for ordinary photos where a small file matters.
Can I convert several AVIF files at once?
Yes. Up to twenty at a time without an account, downloaded together as a ZIP.
Will the PNG look exactly like the AVIF?
Yes for standard images. Every decoded pixel is stored unchanged. Pictures in a wide colour space or in HDR are converted to standard sRGB, which can mute the most intense colours slightly.
My program still will not open the PNG. What now?
That is very unusual, as PNG is read by practically everything. Check that the download finished and that the file ends in .png. If the program is very old, try the BMP or TIFF output in the Format menu.