HEIC to PNG Converter

How to Convert HEIC to PNG Online

1. Upload Your HEIC Photos: Drag and drop or click "+ Add Files" to select HEIC files from your computer or iPhone camera roll. Multiple files convert in one batch — useful when AirDropping a whole album off an iPhone.
2. Pick Quality Preset: The default "Very High (Recommended)" is fine for nearly every photo since PNG is lossless either way; the preset mostly controls the intermediate decode quality. Drop to High or Medium only if you also reduce resolution and want faster processing.
3. Resize or Reduce Colors (Optional): Open Advanced Options to set Preset Resolutions (4320p through 144p), enter a custom Width or Height (aspect-ratio locked), or scale by Resolution Percentage. Under Colors, leave "Original" for full 24-bit, or pick "By Color Reduction + Dither" with a palette of 2–256 colors for tiny indexed PNGs. Tune Compression level (default 6) and Compression speed (default 4) to trade processing time for smaller output.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert". Each PNG downloads individually, or grab them all as a ZIP. Files are uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically after a few hours — no sign-up, no watermark, never shared.

Why Convert HEIC to PNG?

HEIC (HEIF container with HEVC-encoded image data) became the default iPhone photo format with iOS 11 in September 2017, replacing JPEG on iPhone 7 and later. It is lossy by default and saves roughly half the storage of an equivalent-quality JPEG. PNG, standardized by the W3C in 1996, is lossless, supports full 8-bit alpha transparency, and is supported by every browser, image editor, and OS image viewer in current use. Converting to PNG is the right move whenever you need an iPhone photo to open in software that does not handle HEIC, or when downstream editing requires pixel-perfect input.

• Pasting into editors that reject HEIC — Photoshop reads HEIC only with the Camera Raw plugin and at 8-bit depth, Affinity Photo and older Illustrator versions refuse it entirely, and Figma rejects HEIC uploads outright. PNG drops into all of them.
• Posting on platforms that strip or reject HEIC — Reddit, Discord, Slack image previews, and most Stack Overflow / GitHub markdown embeds either reject HEIC uploads or silently convert them. Pre-converting to PNG avoids surprise quality loss.
• Screenshots from iPhone that capture text or UI — iOS saves screenshots as PNG already, but Live Photos and screen recordings exported as HEIC frames re-introduce lossy compression. Re-encoding to PNG keeps text edges crisp.
• Sending to Windows users on older builds — Windows 10 needs the HEIF Image Extensions and HEVC Video Extensions packages (the HEVC one costs $0.99 in the Microsoft Store). PNG opens out of the box.
• Long-term archival or print prep — PNG's lossless compression means no generational quality loss when you re-edit and re-save. Print-on-demand services (Printful, Society6, Redbubble) typically require PNG or TIFF and reject HEIC.
• Compositing with transparent layers — If you're going to mask the iPhone photo onto a transparent background in your editor, PNG is the only format in this conversion that can write the resulting alpha channel back out.

HEIC vs PNG vs JPG

Quality Preset Quick Guide

For more aggressive size reduction after conversion, run the result through compress PNG. If file size matters more than pixel-perfect quality, HEIC to JPG typically produces files 3–5x smaller than PNG for the same photo. Going the other direction is PNG to HEIC.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is my PNG 5–10x bigger than the original HEIC?

That's expected. HEIC uses HEVC inter-prediction and transform coding to pack a 12 MP photo into roughly 2 MB; PNG stores every pixel losslessly and only deduplicates via DEFLATE, which is much weaker on photographic content. A 2 MB HEIC commonly becomes a 15–25 MB PNG. If size matters, convert to JPG instead, or run the PNG through a compressor afterward.

Will transparency be preserved if my HEIC has an alpha channel?

Yes — the converter writes any alpha plane from the HEIC's auxiliary image item into PNG's alpha channel. In practice, however, iPhone Camera captures are opaque (no alpha), so most HEICs from a phone produce fully opaque PNGs. HEICs exported from editing apps (Procreate, Affinity, Photoshop's "Save As") may include alpha and will retain it.

Does the conversion lose any quality from the HEIC source?

PNG itself is lossless, so the conversion adds zero compression artifacts on top of the input. The output is a pixel-accurate copy of the decoded HEIC — anything HEVC discarded during the original encode (subtle chroma detail, high-frequency noise) is permanently gone before this tool ever sees the file, but no additional quality is lost.

Will Live Photos or burst sequences convert?

Only the primary still image is converted. HEIC can store multiple image items (Live Photo motion, burst frames, depth maps, HDR gain maps), but the converter outputs one PNG per file using the cover image. The 3-second Live Photo motion clip (stored as a separate.MOV alongside the HEIC) is not part of the conversion.

What's the bit depth of the output PNG?

8 bits per channel (24-bit RGB or 32-bit RGBA), which is what PNG's most widely supported profile uses. If the source HEIC was 10-bit HDR, the converter tone-maps down to 8-bit during decode; that loses some smooth-gradient precision but ensures the PNG opens correctly in every editor. PNG does support 16-bit per channel, but few tools handle it well.

Why won't my Windows 10 PC open the original HEIC?

Windows 10 needs two Microsoft Store extensions: HEIF Image Extensions (free) and HEVC Video Extensions ($0.99, since HEVC is patent-licensed). Many PCs ship with only the first, which is why HEIC photos open as blank previews. Converting to PNG on the web sidesteps both extensions entirely — the decode happens in our pipeline, you download a universally compatible file.

Does this work for HEIF (.heif) and HEIC sequence (.heics) files?

Yes for.heif (same container, different extension). For.heics multi-image sequences only the primary cover image is exported. For full burst extraction you'd typically need a desktop tool like ImageMagick with libheif.

Can I keep EXIF metadata (date, GPS, camera model)?

The output PNG carries the timestamp, but PNG's metadata model (tEXt / iTXt chunks) is weaker than HEIC's. EXIF transfer to PNG (including GPS coordinates) depends on the tool and pipeline — some preserve the full EXIF block via PNG's eXIf chunk, others strip it. If sharing photos publicly, verify metadata was stripped before upload, or use HEIC to JPG when you need EXIF preserved reliably (JPEG handles EXIF natively).

Is conversion free, and where do my files go?

Yes, free, no sign-up, no watermark. Files upload over HTTPS, convert, and are auto-deleted from our servers shortly after you download. We do not use them for training or share them with third parties.