Convert AVIF to PNG
Output is typically roughly 10× larger.
- Files stay on your device
- No upload, no waiting
- No sign-up, no watermark
How it works
Add your AVIF file
Drag a AVIF file onto the drop zone, or click to browse. You can select several at once.
Choose your settings
PNG is lossless, so there is nothing to configure — the output matches the input pixel for pixel.
Download the PNG
Conversion runs on your device as soon as each file is added — no upload, no queue. Download each result when it is ready.
Related tools
All image tools- AVIF to JPGOutput is typically roughly 2.3× larger.
- AVIF to WebPOutput is typically about 50% larger.
- JPG to PNGOutput is typically roughly 4.4× larger.
- Compress ImageSmaller files, quality you control.
- Resize ImageExact pixel dimensions, aspect ratio kept.
- Crop ImageReframe without losing any sharpness.
Questions
Why can't my photo editor open AVIF?
AVIF is built on the AV1 video codec and only reached universal browser support with Safari 16.4 in March 2023. Desktop applications adopt codecs far more slowly than browsers do, so many editors still ship without an AVIF decoder. Converting is usually quicker than waiting for an update or hunting down a plugin.
Will converting AVIF to PNG make the file smaller?
Usually, yes. A 12-megapixel photo is around 1.4 MB as AVIF and around 14 MB as PNG — roughly 10× larger. Because PNG is lossless the result depends entirely on the image content — flat colour and text compress far better than photographic detail.
Does converting AVIF to PNG lose quality?
No. PNG is lossless, so every pixel decoded from your AVIF file is stored exactly. Both formats are lossless, so the conversion is pixel-for-pixel identical.
Is transparency preserved when converting AVIF to PNG?
Yes. Both AVIF and PNG support an alpha channel, so transparent and semi-transparent pixels carry across unchanged — a logo with a cut-out background stays cut out, and soft drop shadows keep their gradient rather than picking up a white halo. Because PNG is lossless, the alpha channel is stored exactly as it was.
What happens to an animated AVIF?
Only the first frame is converted. Every conversion here decodes one frame onto a canvas and re-encodes it, so the result is always a still image — that applies to PNG as much as to any other target. To shrink an animation while keeping the motion, a video file (MP4 or WebM) is usually around a tenth of the size of the equivalent AVIF, and needs an encoder we do not ship yet.
When should I use PNG instead of a smaller format?
Use PNG when exactness matters more than size: screenshots, logos, diagrams, UI assets, anything with sharp text, and any image you will re-edit repeatedly. Lossless means no artefacts and no cumulative degradation. For photographs on the web, WebP or AVIF will be several times smaller at quality nobody can distinguish.
About avif to png
Why people convert AVIF to PNG
AVIF is increasingly what modern sites serve, and desktop software has not caught up. Someone saved an image and their editor, their CMS or their operating system's preview will not open it.
PNG is the right handoff into an editor: lossless from here, transparency preserved, and readable by absolutely everything.
Worth knowing: Brace for the file size. AVIF is among the most efficient formats ever shipped and PNG among the least efficient for photographs — a 200 KB AVIF can become a 5 MB PNG. Both formats are behaving correctly.
AVIF and PNG side by side
| AVIF | PNG | |
|---|---|---|
| Full name | AV1 Image File Format | Portable Network Graphics |
| Compression | Lossy or lossless | Lossless |
| Transparency | Yes — alpha channel | Yes — alpha channel |
| Animation | Yes | No |
| Browser support | Chrome 85+, Firefox 93+, Safari 16.4+ (March 2023), Edge 121+ | Universal — every browser since 1996 |
| Typical 12 MP photo | ~1.4 MB | ~14 MB |
| Usually used for | Performance-critical web images where every kilobyte counts | Screenshots, logos, icons, diagrams and anything needing transparency |
On a typical 12-megapixel phone photo, the PNG output comes out roughly 10× larger than the AVIF original. These are order-of-magnitude figures for one kind of image — your own results will vary a great deal, because flat colour, text and line art behave nothing like photographic detail.
What to watch out for
- Very large files for photographic content
- No animation (APNG is a separate, less-supported extension)
- Slower to decode than JPEG at the same pixel count
- Animation is lost. Only the first frame is converted — every conversion here decodes a single frame onto a canvas and re-encodes it, so the result is a still image whatever the target format. To shrink an animation and keep the motion, a video file is typically around a tenth of the size of the equivalent AVIF.
About the two formats
AVIF currently produces the smallest files of any widely supported format — commonly half the size of JPEG at the same perceived quality, with excellent handling of gradients and noise. The cost is encoding time, which can be seconds per image rather than milliseconds, and support that only became universal with Safari 16.4 in 2023.
PNG stores every pixel exactly as it was, with no generation loss no matter how many times you re-save it. That fidelity is why it dominates screenshots, logos and UI assets, and also why it is the wrong choice for photographs — lossless compression simply cannot get a 12-megapixel photo down to a reasonable size.
Other conversions
Everything runs on your device — nothing is uploaded, so there is no size limit, no queue and no copy left on a server afterwards. There is more on how browser-based conversion works if you want the detail. Otherwise, browse every image tool, or convert PNG back to AVIF.