Turn HEIC photos into lossless PNG files for editing, design tools and screenshots, without uploading anything. Nothing is uploaded, and there’s no account, watermark or limit.
Add your HEIC or HEIF files by dragging them onto the page or clicking to browse. Batches are fine.
Choose a metadata option. “Remove location” is selected by default; there is no quality setting because PNG is lossless.
Start the conversion. The files are decoded in your browser with a WebAssembly build of libheif and saved as PNG on your device.
Download the PNGs one by one, or click “Download all (.zip)” to get every file in a single archive.
HEIC is the format iPhones use for photos by default since iOS 11. It is Apple's name for HEIF images compressed with HEVC, a modern codec that keeps photos small. That compression is lossy: some fine detail is already discarded when the photo is taken.
PNG is a lossless format. Converting HEIC to PNG captures the decoded image exactly, pixel for pixel, and any later saves of that PNG lose nothing more. That makes PNG a good intermediate file when a photo is going to be edited, retouched, cut out or composited several times.
PNG is also what many design and presentation tools, slide decks and documentation workflows expect for images that will be layered over other content, especially when transparency matters. HEIC files can carry an alpha channel, and when they do, the PNG keeps it.
What PNG can't do is restore detail that HEIC compression already removed. The PNG will look the same as the HEIC, not better.
Mac
Windows
Paint handles one file at a time and does not offer a choice about metadata.
iPhone & iPad
iPhone has no built-in PNG export in the Photos app, and its camera can't shoot PNG. If you only need a widely compatible photo, JPG is usually the better choice.
For most camera photos, JPG is the better target. PNG's lossless compression works brilliantly on screenshots, logos and flat graphics, but photos are full of noise and fine texture that it can't compress well. A 12-megapixel iPhone photo that becomes a few megabytes as a high-quality JPG will often be 10–20 MB as PNG.
PNG makes sense when the file is a working copy rather than the final result: you are going to edit it repeatedly, layer it in a design, extract a subject, or hand it to software that only accepts lossless input. Each JPG save adds a little more compression damage; PNG doesn't.
It is also the right choice for HEIC images that aren't really photos, such as screenshots or graphics saved as HEIC, or images with a transparent background. Converting those to JPG would add compression artifacts around text and edges, and fill transparency with white.
If you are simply sending photos to someone, uploading them to a website or printing them, choose HEIC to JPG instead. You'll get much smaller files with no visible difference.
Either way, colors are converted to sRGB. iPhone photos are captured in the wider Display P3 color space, so very saturated colors may look slightly less vivid after conversion.
PNG is lossless, so it preserves the decoded HEIC image exactly, while JPG adds a small amount of compression. At high JPG quality the difference is usually invisible to the eye. PNG's advantage shows up mainly when you edit and save a file many times.
HEIC uses lossy video-style compression; PNG stores every pixel without loss. Photos have lots of fine detail and noise that lossless compression can't shrink much, so a PNG of a photo is commonly several times the size of the HEIC original. That is normal.
Yes. If the HEIC image has an alpha channel, the PNG keeps the transparent areas. Regular photos from an iPhone camera don't contain transparency, so they will simply be fully opaque PNGs.
No. The HEIC decoder runs as WebAssembly inside a Web Worker in your browser, and the PNG is written on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no signup or watermark.
Yes. Select or drop all the files at once, then download them individually or as a ZIP. Because PNGs of photos are large, a big batch needs a fair amount of memory and disk space; very large images such as 48 MP shots may fail on older phones.
By default the GPS location is removed, and you can instead keep all metadata or remove all of it. Image orientation is applied to the pixels, so the PNG is always the right way up. Note that many apps ignore metadata stored in PNG files, so don't rely on PNG to carry dates or camera details.
Usually not. Print services and photo labs expect JPG, and a high-quality JPG prints just as well as a PNG of the same photo. Choose JPG at 95% or higher for printing.
Last updated October 28, 2026