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AVIF to PNG converter

Turn an AVIF sticker, logo, icon or screenshot into a PNG that keeps its clear background, right on your device.

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PNG is set as the output. Clear pixels stay clear, and the PNG is saved without any new compression loss.

Choose your crop

Drag on the preview for a custom crop. The shaded edges will be removed. Need more room instead? Uncrop the photo.

PNG and WebP keep transparency.

Continue with this photo Uncrop a photoResizeCompressAdd text Open a photo first, then pick the next step. Your edit carries over and stays on this device.

Three steps

How to convert AVIF to PNG

  1. Choose the AVIF from your files, or drop it on the preview.
  2. Keep PNG as the format. Crop, resize or rotate first if you need to.
  3. Download the PNG and check its size against the AVIF.

Every pixel kept, including the clear ones.

PNG is lossless: it records each pixel exactly, along with how see-through it is. That makes it the safe copy to keep editing, and the format most design tools, slide apps and older programs accept for graphics with a transparent background.

Your browser decodes the AVIF, the editor draws it on a canvas, and a fresh PNG is written from those pixels. Detail the AVIF encoder dropped to make its small file stays lost, so the PNG shows exactly what the AVIF showed on screen, no sharper.

Expect a much larger file, above all for photos. If the picture is a photo with nothing transparent in it, the AVIF to JPG converter gives a far smaller copy that opens just as widely.

What carries over from the AVIF to the PNG

AVIF can hold more than a plain picture: an alpha channel, an image sequence, and HDR or wide-color data, according to MDN. Here is how each one comes through on this page.

In the AVIFIn the PNG you download
Transparent and partly transparent pixelsKept exactly, soft edges included
Lossy compressionNo further loss: the decoded pixels are stored as they are
An animated image sequenceOne still frame, normally the first
HDR or wide-color dataFitted into standard sRGB color by your browser
Width and height in pixelsKept, unless you resize or the image is very large
Camera, date and location detailsLeft out, because the PNG is built from pixels alone

File sizes from our test

We converted the same three AVIF files on this page in Chrome. The PNG kept every pixel and the transparency, and it grew a lot for the photos. For comparison, the last column shows the JPG from the AVIF to JPG page at quality 90.

The pattern is typical. Photos are full of fine detail that lossless compression cannot squeeze, so a PNG of a photo is huge. A logo has large flat areas that PNG stores efficiently, so it stays small and keeps its clear background, which JPG would have turned white.

Test fileAVIFPNGJPG at 90, for comparison
Mountain lake photo, 1,021 x 1,277108 KB1,975 KB307 KB
Beach photo, 1,167 x 1,16785 KB1,601 KB253 KB
Logo with transparency, 800 x 5005.0 KB56.9 KB22.8 KB, on white

Good reasons to choose PNG

A PNG copy earns its extra size when:

  • A sticker, icon or logo has to sit on a colored slide, document or web page without a white box around it.
  • You will keep editing the picture, so each round starts from exact pixels instead of adding more compression.
  • A screenshot saved as AVIF holds small text or sharp lines, which lossy JPG would blur at the edges.
  • You want rounded corners or other shapes cut from the picture, which need transparency to look right.

Questions

Does AVIF support transparency?

Yes. AVIF has an alpha channel, so a logo or sticker can have a clear background. PNG has one too, which is why this page keeps it: in our test, the transparent corner of an AVIF logo was still fully transparent in the PNG we downloaded.

Why is the PNG so much bigger than the AVIF?

AVIF is usually lossy and very efficient, while PNG stores every pixel without loss. In our test, a 108 KB AVIF photo became a 1,975 KB PNG, about 18 times larger. Flat graphics grow less and stay small: our 5 KB test logo became a 57 KB PNG.

Will converting AVIF to PNG make it HD or higher quality?

The PNG is an exact copy of what the AVIF shows, so nothing gets worse, but nothing gets better either. It cannot restore detail the AVIF dropped, and this page does not upscale. Enlarging in Resize only spreads the same pixels over a bigger grid.

How do I convert AVIF to PNG on a Mac?

Open this page in Safari 16.1 or later, Chrome or Firefox, choose the AVIF, keep PNG selected and download. Nothing needs installing, and the same steps work on Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone in any browser that opens AVIF.

Should I convert AVIF to PNG or JPG?

PNG for anything with transparency, small text, sharp lines or more editing to come. JPG for photos you only need to open or upload, because the file is many times smaller: our test photo was 307 KB as a JPG at quality 90 and 1,975 KB as a PNG.

What happens to an animated AVIF?

You get one still picture, normally the first frame. A PNG from this page holds a single image, and the HTML Standard tells browsers to draw one frame when an animated image goes onto a canvas. Keep the AVIF if you need the motion.

Is AVIF better than PNG?

For websites, AVIF usually wins on size, and MDN notes it can be lossless as well as lossy. PNG wins on compatibility and as a working copy, because practically every image program opens it and saves it without loss.

Can I make the background transparent if the AVIF has none?

Not on this page, which keeps the pixels as they are. If the background is one plain color, the remove background tool can clear it and save a PNG with the transparency.

Sources: Image file type and format guide, AVIF (MDN Web Docs), HTML Standard: canvas color spaces (the default is sRGB), HTML Standard: animated images drawn on a canvas use one frame

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