HEIC to PNG Converter

Drop your HEIC photos on the box above and press the button. Each photo is decoded and saved as a standard PNG file, ready to download on its own or, when you add several, together in one ZIP. A live preview shows the finished picture with its pixel size and file size before you start, so you know what you will get.

The whole job runs inside your browser. A small HEIC decoder loads with the page and reads each photo on your own device, which means your pictures are never uploaded to a server. You can mix HEIC and HEIF files with JPG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP and other pictures in the same batch, each up to 100 MB.

HEIC is the format phones use to keep photos small. It saves a lot of storage, but outside the phone it often causes trouble: plenty of programs, websites and older computers either refuse the file or show an empty icon. PNG, on the other hand, opens in every browser, image editor, office program and design tool you are likely to use.

PNG has another strength that matters for some jobs: it is lossless. Once a photo is stored as PNG, you can open it, edit it and save it again as often as you like without the picture getting softer each time, which is what happens when a JPG is saved over and over. That makes PNG a good working copy for editing, collages, screenshots with notes, design work and archiving.

If you only want to share a photo or post it somewhere, a JPG is usually the more practical choice because it is far smaller. For that job there is HEIC to JPG. Choose PNG when you want a file that will not lose anything more, now or later.

HEIC stands for High Efficiency Image Container. It is a version of the HEIF format that stores pictures with the same compression used for HEVC video, also known as H.265. Compared with a JPG of similar look, a HEIC photo is often about half the size, and the format can also hold extras such as depth information, several pictures in one file, HDR brightness and wide colour.

Apple made HEIC the standard camera format on iPhone and iPad starting with iOS 11, and many Android phones from several makers can save photos as HEIF as well. That is why so many people suddenly have HEIC files on their computer: they appear after copying photos from a phone with a cable, downloading them from a cloud backup or receiving them from a friend.

The catch is support. Phones and recent Macs read HEIC without thinking about it, but Windows, many web upload forms, older photo editors, printers and smart TVs often do not. Converting gives you a file that works everywhere, and PNG is the choice that adds no further loss on the way.

Your iPhone camera saves photos as HEIC when the setting Settings, Camera, Formats is on High Efficiency, which is the default. If you switch it to Most Compatible, new photos are saved as JPG instead, at roughly twice the size. Photos you have already taken stay HEIC.

When you send photos from an iPhone through the share sheet or attach them to an email, iOS often converts them to JPG automatically. When you copy them to a computer with a cable, take them out of a cloud backup or download them in their original form, you get the HEIC files themselves. That is why the same photos can arrive as JPG one day and HEIC the next.

Changing the camera setting only helps for future photos. For the ones you already have, add them to this page and you get PNG files in one go, with the original pixel size and no further loss.

There is no need to convert every photo you own. Inside your phone and on a recent Mac, HEIC works well and takes half the space of a JPG, so your photo library can stay as it is. Convert the photos that have to go somewhere HEIC is not welcome.

Pick PNG when the picture will be edited, marked up, used in a design, printed at full quality or archived in a format that never changes. Pick JPG when the photo is going into an email, onto a website or to a form with a size limit, because a JPG is many times smaller than a PNG of the same photo.

Keeping both is often sensible: the HEIC original with its HDR and Live Photo parts on the phone, and the PNG as the working copy on your computer. You can always make a new PNG or JPG from the original later.

You can use this HEIC to PNG converter free of charge as often as you like. There is no account, no email address to give, no watermark on your pictures and no trial that stops working after a few files. Nothing has to be installed either.

The page also remembers your settings for the next visit, so if you always want a certain size or colour mode, you set it once. A batch of a few dozen photos usually finishes within seconds to a minute on a modern computer and a little slower on an older phone.

HEIC to PNG free of charge is possible here because your own device does the work. A conversion that runs on a paid server costs the site money for every file, which is why many services limit the number of files, add a watermark or ask you to sign up. In the browser there is no server bill for your photos, so there is nothing to limit.

There is also no queue. Your batch starts the moment you press the button, and the speed depends only on your device. Close the page and nothing remains behind.

Many people look for a way to convert HEIC to PNG without losing quality, and here the honest answer is good news, with one detail worth knowing. HEIC is already a lossy format: the phone threw away some fine detail when it saved the photo. No converter can bring that detail back, because it is simply not in the file any more.

What the conversion can do is keep everything that is there. PNG is lossless, so with PNG file set to Lossless every pixel of the decoded photo is stored exactly, with no new compression on top. The result looks the same as the HEIC on your screen and will not change, however many times you open and save it again.

The price is size. Because PNG stores every pixel without throwing anything away, a PNG of a photo is often five to ten times larger than the HEIC it came from. If size matters more than a perfect copy, make the picture smaller under Size, or use a JPG for that photo instead.

Recent iPhones save many photos with extra HDR brightness information, so bright skies and lights glow on HDR screens. The PNG files made here hold standard 8-bit colour, so each photo is written as it looks on an ordinary screen. Most pictures look exactly as you expect; very bright highlights can look a little flatter on an HDR display.

Live Photos are a HEIC still picture plus a short video stored as a separate file. Only the still picture is converted, so the PNG shows the main moment without the motion or sound. Depth information for portrait effects and other extra layers inside the HEIC file are not carried over either. Keep the original on your phone if you need those parts.

Phone cameras usually record photos in a wide colour range called Display P3, which has slightly richer reds, greens and oranges than standard screen colour. The PNG is written in standard colour, so on most monitors and on paper it looks the same as the HEIC did.

On a wide-colour screen, very saturated colours such as a red flower or a bright orange sunset can look a touch less intense than in the photo app on the phone. If the colours look clearly wrong, for example very dark or washed out, the photo most likely held HDR brightness, which the section above explains.

Expect the PNG to be much larger than the HEIC. A 12 megapixel iPhone photo of around 2 MB often becomes a PNG of 15 to 25 MB. That is not a fault in the conversion: HEIC throws away detail you hardly notice to stay small, while PNG keeps every pixel and is built for exactness, not for small photo files.

The live preview shows the PNG size before you convert, and the result list shows the new size next to the original for each file. If the files are too big for your purpose, the next section shows the ways to make them lighter.

There are three ways to keep the PNG lighter. The most effective is Size: Longest side 1920 px turns a 4032 px photo into a file about a quarter of the size, which is still sharp on any screen. Second, under More options, PNG file has a Smaller file choice that reduces the picture to a set number of colours, up to 256. That often cuts the size by 60 to 80%, but photos with smooth skies or skin can show bands.

Third, if the picture is a document, receipt or note, Black & white under Colour makes a very small PNG. If none of this is small enough, a JPG is the right format for that photo, and Compress Image can shrink it further. Resize Image offers presets for social media, screens and print sizes.

PNG can store see-through areas, but HEIC photos from a phone camera almost never have any. A normal photo therefore becomes a normal PNG with no transparency: the whole frame is filled with the picture.

If you want a transparent background, for example a product photographed on a white sheet or a signature on plain paper, the Transparent background setting can help. Remove background makes the plain background around the subject see-through, and Remove a colour everywhere clears one colour in the whole picture. You can let the tool find the colour, pick white or choose your own, and set a tolerance and smooth edges. This works well on plain, even backgrounds; busy backgrounds and people need a dedicated tool.

PNG is not always the right target. If you just want to email photos, post them or upload them to a form with a size limit, a JPG of the same photo is often five times smaller than the PNG and looks the same at normal viewing size. HEIC to JPG uses the same engine and lets you set quality and a size limit in KB.

There are also other routes for HEIC photos. To put several photos into one document, HEIC to PDF creates a PDF directly. If you already have PNG files that are too large, PNG to JPG makes them much smaller.

This HEIC to PNG online page works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook, iPhone, iPad and Android in any current browser, such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari. Nothing has to be installed and you do not need the HEIF extension on Windows, because the page brings its own decoder.

Online here only means that you open a web page. The converting itself happens offline in the sense that matters: on your device. Once the page has loaded, your photos do not travel anywhere, and the speed depends on your computer or phone, not on your internet connection.

Phones have less memory than computers, and lossless PNG files of large photos are big, so very large batches convert more slowly there. If a phone struggles, convert a few photos at a time or use a computer for whole folders.

For HEIC to PNG Windows 11 needs no extension, codec or extra program. Open this page in Edge, Chrome or Firefox and follow these steps.

Open File Explorer and go to the folder with your HEIC photos, often Pictures, Downloads or a phone folder you copied. Select the files and drag them onto the box at the top of this page, or click Select images. For a whole folder, use Add a whole folder. Press Convert to PNG and download the result. With several files you get one ZIP; right-click it and choose Extract All.

If File Explorer shows blank thumbnails for your HEIC files, Windows is missing the HEIF Image Extensions. That does not matter here, because the page decodes the photos itself, and the PNG files show thumbnails straight away.

The same steps work for HEIC to PNG Windows 10 conversion. Windows 10 often cannot open HEIC on its own, and the HEVC Video Extensions it may ask for are not always free. This page avoids that: the decoder runs in the browser, so you do not need to install or buy anything.

Open the page in your browser, drag the HEIC files from File Explorer onto the box or click Select images, and press Convert to PNG. Save a single picture with Save or all of them with Download all (ZIP). The PNG files open in Photos, Paint and every other program on Windows 10.

For HEIC to PNG on Mac, open this page in Safari, Chrome, Edge or Firefox and drag the photos from Finder or from an exported Photos folder onto the box. The settings, preview and ZIP download work just like on Windows, and many files go in one batch.

A Mac can also convert on its own. In Preview, open a HEIC photo, choose File and Export, and pick PNG. In Finder, right-click a few selected files and use Quick Actions, Convert Image, which offers PNG on recent macOS versions. Both are fine for a handful of photos; for folders, a size change or grayscale in one pass, this page is quicker.

HEIC to PNG on iPhone works right in Safari or any other browser, without an app. Open this page, tap Select images and choose photos from your library or from the Files app. Press Convert to PNG, then tap Save for one picture or Download all (ZIP) for several; the files land in Downloads in the Files app.

On iPhone and iPad the photo picker may hand the browser a JPG copy instead of the HEIC original, depending on the iOS version. The PNG is then made from that copy, which is usually fine for everyday use. For the untouched original, export the photos to the Files app first and pick them from there.

On Android, tap Select images and choose HEIC or HEIF files from your gallery or the Downloads folder. The PNG files are saved to Downloads.

Batch conversion is built in. Select many photos at once, drop a pile of them on the box, or use Add a whole folder to take every picture in a folder and its subfolders. Each file can be up to 100 MB, and the same settings are used for all of them.

Files that are not pictures, such as Live Photo video parts or sidecar files from a camera roll, are skipped with a short note, so you can add a mixed folder safely. A progress bar shows how far the batch has got, and you can stop at any time. When it finishes, Download all (ZIP) saves everything at once.

Each PNG keeps the name of its photo, so IMG_4521.HEIC becomes IMG_4521.png. To keep the two apart in the same folder, tick Add -converted to file names under More options, and you get IMG_4521-converted.png.

When you add a folder, the ZIP keeps the same folder structure, so photos from different months or albums stay where they were. If two files would end up with the same name, the second one gets a number such as (2), so nothing is overwritten.

Every file you get is a standard PNG with the .png ending. It opens in every browser, photo viewer, office program and image editor, and it can be edited and saved again without further loss as long as you keep saving it as PNG.

The PNG has the same width and height in pixels as the photo unless you choose a different size. The result list shows the pixel size and file size of each new file next to the original, so you can see at a glance what changed. With a single picture, a Copy button also puts the PNG on the clipboard, ready to paste into a document or chat.

Under Size you can make the pictures smaller while converting. Longest side sets the longer edge in pixels and never enlarges a smaller photo. Percentage scales every picture by the same amount, and Exact size gives every picture the same width and height, with a choice of Fit inside, Fill and crop or Stretch.

Because a lossless PNG grows with the number of pixels, this is the most effective way to get lighter files. For more control, such as print sizes in centimetres or inches and presets for social media, use Resize Image.

More options holds the settings most people never touch but are glad to have. PNG file chooses between Lossless and Smaller file with a colour slider. Colour offers Grayscale and Black & white, handy for documents, receipts and forms that want a black and white scan.

DPI for print writes 72, 96, 150 or 300 into the PNG. It does not change the pixels; it only tells printers and layout programs how large the picture should come out. Photo details decides what happens to information such as the date, the phone model and the location: Remove for privacy, Keep without location, or Keep all. For files you already have, Remove Metadata clears that information separately.

As soon as you add a photo, a live preview shows the PNG it will become, with its pixel size and file size. Change the size, colour or PNG file setting and the preview updates within a moment. Switch between Result and Original to compare, and tap any picture in the list to preview that one.

After converting, Compare lays the original and the PNG on top of each other with a divider you can drag. Move it across faces, text and edges. With Lossless you will find no difference; with Smaller file you can judge whether the colour count is high enough.

On Windows, the Photos app can open HEIC once the HEIF and HEVC extensions are installed, and Paint can then save a photo as PNG with File and Save as. That works for one picture, but it is slow for twenty and offers no size or colour choice in the same step.

On a Mac, Preview and the Convert Image quick action do the job without extra software, as described above. Image editors can export PNG too, one file at a time. For many photos, mixed folders or a size change in one pass, this page is the quicker route.

To check a finished PNG on Windows, right-click it, choose Properties and open the Details tab, where you see the width, height and size. On a Mac, select it and press Command and I. On a phone, the info panel of the photo or files app shows the same.

Then open the PNG where you need it. If it is accepted and looks right, you are done. If a form refuses it, the usual cause is a size limit in KB or a pixel limit; make the picture smaller under Size, or use a JPG for that form.

Is the PNG for editing or archiving? Keep Lossless and the original size.

Is it for a screen, a document or slides? Set Longest side to 1920 or 1600 px.

Does the file have to be small, for email or a form? Consider JPG instead of PNG.

Is it a document or receipt? Try Black & white under Colour.

Is it for print? Set 300 under DPI for print in More options.

Should the location be removed? Check Photo details in More options before sharing.

Your photos are not uploaded. The page reads them with your browser, decodes them on your device, writes the PNG files on your device and offers them for download from there. They are not sent to our server, not stored and not seen by anyone, and they disappear when you close the page.

That matters for phone photos, which often show family, children, homes and documents and carry the exact location where they were taken. For pictures you share later, set Photo details to Remove or Keep without location.

When you add a HEIC file, a decoder built on the open-source libheif library reads it inside your browser and turns it into pixels. The tool then applies your size, colour and transparency settings and writes a new PNG, either lossless or with the reduced colour count you chose.

Other picture types in the same batch are read by the browser itself. When there are several results, the ZIP is packed in your browser as well, so every step stays on your device.

Keep the HEIC originals on your phone; they hold HDR, Live Photo motion and depth that a PNG does not.

Use lossless PNG for editing and archiving, and JPG for sharing and uploading.

Shrink large photos with Longest side before converting; it saves far more space than any other setting.

Remove the location from photos before you share them publicly.

Use Add a whole folder for a camera roll so the folder structure stays the same in the ZIP.

Use the Compare view once on a typical photo to choose your settings, then convert the rest.

Need a smaller file after all? Compress Image reduces picture files further, and Resize Image changes their pixel size with presets. To collect photos in a document, HEIC to PDF puts them straight into a PDF, and Remove Metadata clears date, camera and location from files you already have.

Working with other formats? AVIF to JPG handles the modern format many websites send when you save a picture, and PNG to JPG turns large PNG files into small JPG files. All our picture tools are listed under Image Tools.