When should I choose PNG over JPG for a HEIC photo?

Pick PNG when you need a lossless, pixel-perfect copy — for editing, archiving, screenshots, or graphics with sharp edges and text. PNG never adds compression artifacts, so it's the safe choice when quality matters more than file size. For sharing or email where small size wins, HEIC to JPG is usually the better fit.

Will the PNG be larger than the original HEIC?

Almost always, yes. HEIC is a highly efficient compressed format, while PNG is lossless and uncompressed by comparison. A 2 MB HEIC photo can become a 10–20 MB PNG. That's the trade-off for perfect fidelity — if size is a concern, convert to JPG or WebP instead.

Does PNG keep transparency from the original?

PNG fully supports an alpha (transparency) channel, so if a source image has transparent regions they're preserved. Most iPhone camera photos are fully opaque, but for screenshots or edited images with transparency, PNG keeps it intact where JPG would fill it with white.

Can I convert several HEIC files to PNG at once?

Yes. Drop or select multiple HEIC files and they convert in a batch, each with its own download button plus a 'Download all (.zip)' option. Everything runs locally in your browser, so a folder of photos never touches a server.

Is there a quality slider for PNG output?

No — PNG is lossless, so there's nothing to trade off. Every PNG is a faithful copy of the decoded HEIC. The quality slider only appears for lossy formats like JPG, WebP, and AVIF.

HEIC to PNG Converter

HEIC is brilliant for saving space on your iPhone, but it’s the wrong format the moment you need to edit a photo. Design tools, graphics editors, and anything that expects a clean, lossless raster file want PNG. This converter turns your HEIC photos into pixel-perfect PNGs without ever uploading them — the decoding happens right inside your browser tab.

Why PNG instead of JPG?

PNG is lossless: it stores every pixel exactly, with no compression artifacts. That makes it the right choice when you plan to:

Edit or retouch the image — each save won’t degrade it the way re-saving a JPG does.
Preserve transparency — PNG keeps an alpha channel, so transparent regions stay transparent.
Keep sharp detail — screenshots, diagrams, and text-in-image stay crisp with no fuzzy edges.

The trade-off is file size: a lossless PNG is much larger than the same image as HEIC or JPG. If you’re emailing or uploading the photo and don’t need perfect fidelity, HEIC to JPG will give you a far smaller file.

Private by design

When you choose files, a WebAssembly decoder runs entirely in your browser and re-encodes each photo as a PNG on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is logged, and you can even go offline once the page has loaded. Batch conversion works the same way — a whole folder of HEIC photos is processed locally and handed back as a zip.

Tips

Batch it: select many files at once; each gets its own download plus a combined zip.
Expect bigger files: lossless means larger. That’s normal for PNG.
Need transparency or editing? PNG is the right call. Otherwise consider JPG for size.

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