AVIF to PNG

Converting AVIF to PNG turns a next-generation image into a lossless, universally editable one. AVIF, built on the AV1 codec, is roughly half the size of a PNG at similar quality, which is why so many websites now serve their images in it — but the moment you want to open one in an older editor, drop it into an app, or use it somewhere that only understands PNG, the format gets in your way. Converting fixes that: PNG opens in virtually anything, keeps transparency, and because it’s lossless, preserves the image exactly.

Lossless is the whole point of choosing AVIF to PNG over JPG. Every pixel is kept, so the PNG is a pixel-perfect copy of the AVIF — the right choice before editing or archiving. And unlike converters that quietly flatten transparency onto a white background, this one keeps the alpha channel, so a logo, icon or product cut-out stays transparent. The trade-off is size: a lossless PNG is usually two to five times larger than the AVIF it came from, so each file shows its original and converted size and the increase is never a surprise.

If you’re not sure why you have an AVIF in the first place, it’s almost always because you saved an image from a website. To cut bandwidth, a growing number of sites now deliver their pictures as AVIF, so a right-click “Save image as” hands you a .avif rather than the PNG or JPG you expected. The file is perfectly fine — it just needs converting before older software, an editor or a colleague on an older machine will open it.

How to convert AVIF to PNG on any device

Everything runs in your browser using its own built-in AVIF decoder, which means there’s no library to download, nothing is uploaded to a server, there’s no watermark and no file-count cap. Drop one file or a whole folder, and each is decoded and re-encoded as a lossless PNG on your own machine, then offered individually or as a single ZIP. It works in any modern browser — Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari 16 and later — because the decoding is the browser’s own; a very old browser that predates AVIF support is the only thing that can’t do it. There’s nothing to install and no admin rights needed, which matters on a locked-down work PC.

Should you convert AVIF to PNG, or keep the AVIF?

Keep the AVIF whenever the image stays on the web, because it’s far smaller and just as sharp, so your pages load faster. Convert to PNG the moment you need to edit the image, preserve transparency, or use it in software that can’t read AVIF. If you don’t need transparency and file size matters more than perfect fidelity — for a photo you’re just sharing, say — JPG is the smaller choice; otherwise PNG is the safe, lossless option.

Need a different target? AVIF to JPG is smaller when you don’t need transparency, AVIF to WebP keeps the file small for the web, and Compress Image shrinks a PNG to an exact size. The format field guide explains when to keep AVIF and when PNG wins.