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Your images never leave this tab.
Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and convert a file. You will see the encoder and its WebAssembly module load from this domain the first time, and then nothing — no upload, no image data, no request carrying your file anywhere. Turn off your Wi-Fi after the page loads and it still works.
When PNG is the right destination for a HEIC
Be honest with yourself about this one first, because most of the time it is not.
A photograph converted to PNG will be enormous — routinely five to ten times the size of the HEIC it came from — and will look identical to the JPG that would have been a tenth of the size. If you are converting holiday photos so that Windows will open them, JPG is the conversion you actually want.
PNG earns its place in three situations:
- Something downstream insists on it. Plenty of upload validators, design tools and internal systems accept PNG and nothing else.
- The image is not a photograph. iPhones save screenshots as PNG already, but HEIC files containing diagrams, text or flat colour convert far better to PNG than to JPG, which puts visible ringing around hard edges.
- The file is going into an editing pipeline. Every lossy save compounds. If the image will be opened, edited and saved repeatedly, moving to a lossless format first stops the losses stacking up.
How to convert HEIC to PNG
- Drop your
.heicfiles onto the box above, click it to browse, or drop a whole folder. - PNG is already selected as the output format on this page.
- Press Convert, then download the files individually or as a single ZIP.
There is no quality setting on this page, and that is not an omission — PNG has no lossy mode. Every PNG this converter writes is a bit-exact record of the decoded image.
What converting cannot do
It cannot undo what the phone already did. HEIC is lossy by design; that is the entire reason your camera roll fits on the device. Converting to PNG faithfully preserves the photo as it now exists, artifacts included, and then stores it inefficiently.
If file size is the thing you are trying to solve rather than compatibility, WebP will give you a far smaller file than either PNG or JPG at the same visual quality.
The photos stay on your device
No upload, no queue on someone else’s machine, no retention policy to read. The decoder runs in this tab. For a camera roll — which is to say, for pictures of your family, your home and your documents — that distinction is the whole point.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I convert HEIC to PNG for free?
- Drop your .heic files onto the box at the top of this page — PNG is already selected — press Convert, and download the results. No account, no watermark and no daily limit, because the conversion runs on your own machine instead of a server.
- Should I convert HEIC to PNG or to JPG?
- For an ordinary photograph, JPG is almost always the better answer — it will be a fraction of the size and you will not see the difference. Choose PNG when something downstream specifically requires it, when the image is a screenshot or graphic rather than a photo, or when the file is going into an editing pipeline where you do not want another round of lossy compression.
- Why is my PNG so much larger than the HEIC?
- That is expected, and the gap is usually large — five to ten times is normal. HEIC is aggressively lossy and PNG is lossless, so the PNG has to store every pixel exactly, including the compression artifacts the HEIC introduced. Artifacts are noisy, and noise is exactly what lossless compression handles worst.
- Does converting to PNG restore the original quality?
- No. If the HEIC discarded detail when your phone took the shot, that detail is gone permanently. PNG gives you a lossless container holding an already-degraded image — it preserves what is there, it cannot recover what was thrown away.
- Do my photos get uploaded?
- No. There is no upload endpoint on this site. The libheif decoder and the PNG encoder are WebAssembly modules running inside your browser tab, so the photos stay on your machine. Load the page, disconnect from the internet, and conversions still work.
- Is the GPS location removed?
- Yes, by default. iPhone photos usually carry EXIF metadata with the coordinates, the timestamp and the device model. Strip metadata is on by default, so none of it survives into the PNG. Switch it off in the settings panel if you want to keep it.
- Does this work on an iPhone?
- Yes. The codecs are compiled to WebAssembly and shipped with the site rather than borrowed from the browser, so iOS Safari behaves the same as desktop Chrome. You can convert on the phone that took the photo, with no connection.
Other conversions
Each converter opens with the right output format already selected, so the file you drop comes back in the format you came for.
Convert WebP to another format
Convert images to WebP
- Convert PNG to WebP Keep the transparency, drop most of the file size. Lossless mode is one click away if you need pixel-exact output.
- Convert JPG to WebP Typically 25-50% smaller than the same photo as a JPEG, at a quality most people cannot tell apart.
- Convert JPEG to WebP The same conversion as JPG — the two extensions are one format. Smaller files, same picture.
- Convert HEIC to WebP iPhone photos, converted in the browser. No app, no upload, and it works on iOS Safari where most converters do not.
- Convert AVIF to WebP Usually a compatibility move rather than a size one. WebP opens in more places than AVIF still does.
- Convert GIF to WebP Static GIFs convert cleanly and shrink hard. Animated GIFs convert to their first frame — and we will tell you when that happens.
- Convert TIFF to WebP Scans and print files, converted to something a browser can actually display.
- Convert BMP to WebP BMP stores pixels essentially uncompressed. Expect the file to get very substantially smaller.
- Convert SVG to WebP Turning vector into pixels. You choose the size, because a vector does not really have one.
Convert to PNG or JPG
- Convert HEIC to JPG Turn the photos your iPhone actually shot into the format everything else can open. The pictures never leave your device.
- Convert SVG to PNG Rasterize vector artwork into PNG at the exact size you need, with the transparent background intact.
- Convert SVG to JPG Rasterize vector artwork into JPG for the places that will not take anything else. Free, unlimited, nothing uploaded.
- Convert TIFF to JPG Turn enormous archival scans into files you can actually email. Free, unlimited, and nothing leaves your machine.
- Convert TIFF to PNG Convert archival scans into PNG without losing a pixel — the right choice when the page is text, plans or line art.
- Convert AVIF to JPG You downloaded an AVIF and nothing on your computer will open it. This turns it into a JPG that everything opens.
- Convert AVIF to PNG Convert AVIF into PNG for the software that has never heard of AVIF. Transparency intact, nothing uploaded.
- Convert GIF to PNG Convert GIF into PNG without losing a pixel — and escape the 256-colour palette for good.
- Convert GIF to JPG Convert GIF into JPG for the systems that insist on it. Free, unlimited, and nothing leaves your machine.
- Convert BMP to PNG Shrink uncompressed Windows bitmaps dramatically without losing a single pixel. Free, unlimited, nothing uploaded.
- Convert BMP to JPG Turn enormous uncompressed bitmaps into files you can actually send. Free, unlimited, and nothing leaves your machine.
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