HEIC to PNG converter
PNG is the format design tools, bug trackers and documentation systems tend to insist on. Drop an iPhone photo here and it comes out as a PNG, decoded on your own machine.
Nothing is uploaded
The conversion runs on your own device. Turn your network off once it starts and it still finishes.
No cap on the file
There is no server bill to protect here, so the only limit is your own device, not a plan tier.
No signup, no watermark
No account, no trial, and no upgrade prompt on the download. Ads pay for the site.
Up to 50 at a time
Drop a pile of pictures in together. More than one result arrives as a single zip.
Why convert HEIC to PNG?
This is rarely about viewing the photo. It is about what happens next: a design tool that will not place a HEIC, an issue tracker that only accepts PNG attachments, a print workflow, or a document template that was set up years ago and never taught any newer format.
PNG is also the honest choice when the photo is going to be edited and re-saved several times. It is lossless, so each save writes exactly what it was given. A JPG loses a little every round trip, and after four or five it starts to show.
What changes in the file
- Nothing is thrown away. PNG stores the picture exactly as it was decoded, so this is the one conversion here that adds no compression loss of its own.
- The file gets much bigger, and it is worth being ready for it. PNG was designed for logos and screenshots, not photographs; a 3 MB HEIC can land somewhere between 15 and 30 MB. That is normal and not a fault.
- If size matters more than being lossless, WebP keeps transparency too and is a fraction of the size.
How to convert
- Check that PNG is the selected format above. It is picked for you on this page.
- Drop your HEIC photos into the box, or click it to browse.
- Download the result. It never left your device.
Frequently asked questions
Is PNG really lossless if HEIC was lossy?
Yes, but the loss already happened. The HEIC was compressed lossily by the camera. PNG preserves perfectly what it is handed, so nothing further is lost, but it cannot restore detail the camera discarded.
Why is the PNG ten times bigger than the HEIC?
PNG compresses by finding repeated patterns, which photographs barely have. HEIC uses the same techniques as video compression, which suit photographs very well. The size gap is the two formats doing what they were designed for.
Does the photo keep transparency?
Camera photos have no transparency to keep. The question matters for HEIC images exported from an app rather than shot on a camera, and there PNG does preserve see-through areas.
Other conversions
- HEIC to JPG The iPhone photo that Windows refuses to open.
- HEIC to WebP Keeps HEIC-like file sizes, but the web can actually read it.
- WebP to PNG The one to pick when the image has a transparent background.
- JPG to PNG When something downstream will only take a PNG.
Or open the image converter to pick any combination, and the image compressor when the problem is size rather than format.