Convert AVIF to PNG
(No Upload)
Keeps transparency exactly as it was. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no watermark.
Wanted a different output from your AVIF file?
About AVIF to PNG
An .avif file is an image compressed with AV1, the same technology used for modern streaming video. It is the most space efficient image format in common use, frequently half the size of a WebP and a small fraction of a JPEG at comparable quality, which is why websites have been adopting it quickly.
The catch is support. AVIF is newer than WebP, and while current browsers handle it well, a great deal of ordinary software does not: older Photoshop versions, most desktop image viewers, plenty of phone galleries, and a long tail of upload forms. Converting to .png gives you a file that opens in essentially anything.
Why PNG rather than JPG
Choose PNG when either of these applies:
- The image has a transparent background. AVIF supports transparency and uses it often, particularly for logos, icons and product images. PNG keeps it; JPG cannot and has to fill it in.
- You are going to edit the image. PNG is lossless, so nothing degrades while you work on it. JPEG loses a little on every save.
For an ordinary photograph you are simply trying to open or share, JPG produces a far smaller file and is the better choice.
The file will get considerably larger
This surprises people more with AVIF than with any other format, because AVIF is so efficient. A 200 KB AVIF can easily become a 2 MB PNG. That is a tenfold increase and it is completely normal: you are converting one of the most advanced compression formats available into one that stores every pixel exactly, with no approximation at all.
The PNG is a perfect copy of the AVIF's pixels. It does not recover any detail the AVIF compression discarded before the file reached you, since that information is simply not in the file any more.
A note on HDR images
AVIF can store high dynamic range images with more colour information per pixel than PNG normally carries. If your AVIF is an HDR image, converting it produces a standard dynamic range PNG, and very bright or very saturated areas may look flatter than they did in a viewer that understood the HDR data. Ordinary web images are not affected by this.
Nothing is uploaded
The conversion runs inside your own browser tab. Your file is read from your disk, converted by code already running on your machine, and written straight back out. It is never sent to a server, which means there is no queue to wait in, no upload progress bar, no account, no watermark, and nothing of yours sitting on someone else's hard drive afterwards. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it will still work.