Convert HEIC to PNG

Convert HEIC images to PNG free, in your browser. No upload, no account, no watermark.

Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

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    How to convert HEIC to PNG

    1. Drop your HEIC files onto the box above, or paste them with Ctrl+V.
    2. Pick a quality. Around 90% is indistinguishable from the original for most images.
    3. Your browser does the work on your own machine.
    4. Save each file from its tile, or take them all at once.

    What changes, and what does not

    The file will usually grow

    PNG stores every pixel exactly, including the compression artefacts already baked into your HEIC. It preserves them faithfully rather than removing them, and it takes more space to do it. Converting cannot recover detail already discarded.

    Colour

    HEIC: millions, and 10 bits per channel where the camera supports it. PNG: up to 16.7 million, plus 256 levels of transparency.

    HEIC and PNG side by side

    HEICPNG
    Where it came from2017, when Apple made it the iPhone camera default1996, designed as a free replacement for GIF
    Throws detail away Yes No, every pixel is kept
    Transparency Yes Yes
    Animation No No
    Where it opensApple devices natively. Windows needs an extension from the Store, and many web forms reject it outright.Everywhere, without exception, since the late nineties
    Best atStoring camera photos on an iPhone, where the space saving is real and everything can read itScreenshots, logos, diagrams and anything with text or hard edges in it

    How much smaller will the file be?

    Expect it to grow, often several times over. PNG stores every pixel exactly, and the pixels it is storing include the compression artefacts your HEIC already has. It is faithfully preserving damage rather than removing it.

    Can I convert it back afterwards?

    You can go back, and it will look the same, because PNG did not throw anything away. What you cannot do is recover the detail your HEIC lost before it ever reached this page. That is gone whatever you convert it to.

    About HEIC

    What every iPhone shoots by default. Half the non-Apple world refuses to open it.

    About PNG

    Lossless and keeps transparency, at the cost of much larger photographs.

    Will the quality change?

    PNG is lossless, so nothing is thrown away in the encoding. If the HEIC was itself lossy, its existing artefacts are preserved faithfully. Converting cannot recover detail that was already discarded, and the file will usually get considerably larger.

    Other conversions

    HEIC also converts to JPG, WebP, AVIF, PDF and Word.

    PNG also comes from JPG, WebP, AVIF, GIF and BMP.

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    Last updated August 2026

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