Convert AVIF to JPG
Convert AVIF images to JPG free, in your browser.
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AVIF is the newest of the web image formats and the one most likely to arrive as a file nothing on your computer will open. You saved a picture from a site, or somebody sent you one, and the double-click does nothing useful.
Converting to JPG solves that permanently. JPG is the format with no compatibility questions attached: every operating system, every editor, every printer, every form. It is the right answer whenever the file is leaving the web and going somewhere you cannot predict.
The file will get bigger, often by two or three times, and that is not a fault in the conversion. AVIF is genuinely much better at compressing a photograph than JPG is; you are trading that efficiency for the ability to open the file anywhere, which is usually the trade you want when you are here. Any transparency in the AVIF is filled with the colour set in the panel, since JPG cannot hold it.
How to convert AVIF to JPG
- Drop your AVIF files onto the box above, or paste them with Ctrl+V.
- Save each file from its tile, or take them all at once.
What changes
Transparency is lost
JPG cannot store see-through pixels, so anything transparent is filled with the colour you pick in the panel, white unless you change it.
Animation is lost
A AVIF can hold many frames and a JPG holds one, so you get the first frame as a still image.
AVIF and JPG side by side
| AVIF | JPG | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it came from | 2019, built on the AV1 video codec | 1992, from the Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| Throws detail away | Yes | Yes |
| Transparency | Yes | No |
| Where it opens | Every current browser. Outside the browser, support is still thin. | Everywhere, on everything, including hardware old enough to vote |
| Best at | Photographs on a web page you want as small as they can honestly go | Photographs, and anything going somewhere you cannot predict |
More on choosing between JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF.
Questions about AVIF to JPG
Why can nothing on my computer open an AVIF?
Because AVIF arrived in 2019 and support outside browsers is still thin. It is built on the AV1 video codec, so decoding one needs software that has been updated relatively recently, and a great deal of desktop software has not been. Browsers all handle it; Windows needs an extension, older macOS does not know it, and many image editors, email clients and content systems still refuse it outright. Converting is usually less work than fixing that.
Why did the file get larger?
Because AVIF is very good at its job and JPG is thirty years older. At the same visible quality AVIF is routinely half the size of a JPG or better, especially on photographs with large smooth areas such as sky or skin. Going the other way spends that advantage. Two to three times the original is normal, and the picture will look the same; you are paying in bytes for universal compatibility.
Does the picture lose quality?
A little, in principle. The AVIF is decoded and re-encoded by a second lossy compressor, so some detail goes, but at the default quality it is not something you can see on a photograph. What you cannot do is recover anything: whatever the AVIF encoder discarded is gone, and JPG has no way of knowing what was there. Convert once from the best file you have rather than repeatedly from copies.
What happens to transparency?
It is filled with a solid colour, white by default and configurable in the panel, because JPG has no alpha channel at all. AVIF can store transparency and frequently does, particularly on logos and product images cut out from their backgrounds, so this is worth checking before you convert. If the transparency matters, PNG or WebP will keep it and JPG never will.