Convert HEIC to PNG

Our HEIC converter writes PNG as well as JPG and WebP. Choose PNG in the format menu and the conversion is lossless: every pixel the decoder produced goes into the file exactly as it is. Nothing is uploaded, and the quality slider disappears because PNG has no quality setting to apply.

PNG will not make the photo sharper

This is the point worth being clear about. A HEIC from a phone camera is already lossy — detail was discarded when the photo was taken. Saving it as PNG stops any further loss, but it cannot put back what was never in the file. What you get is a much larger file holding exactly the same picture.

Expect a PNG to be several times the size of the HEIC, and often larger than a high-quality JPG of the same photo, because PNG compression is built for flat graphics and screenshots rather than photographs.

When PNG is the right choice

• You are going to edit it again. Each JPG save re-encodes; a PNG in the middle of a chain of edits avoids stacking that up.
• The picture has transparency. A screenshot or a graphic saved as HEIF can carry an alpha channel. JPG cannot — ours flattens it onto white — and PNG keeps it.
• Flat colour, text or line art. PNG compresses those better than JPG and without the fringing around edges.

For an ordinary photograph going into an email, a form or a website, JPG at a high quality setting is the better trade in almost every case. If the file size matters more than compatibility, try WebP instead — the converter offers all three.