Free HEIC to PNG Converter
Convert HEIC photos to PNG in your browser, with no quality lost and nothing uploaded. PNG is exact, so it is the right choice when the photo is going to be edited further rather than just shared.
Drop images here
HEIC photos — add as many as you like
Runs entirely in your browser. Your images are never uploaded to a server.
How it works
- Drop your HEIC photos onto the box above, or choose them.
- The first time, your browser downloads the HEIC decoder, about half a megabyte. The photos themselves never leave your device.
- Each photo is decoded and saved as a PNG, pixel for pixel, with no compression settings to get wrong.
- Download them one at a time, or all together as a ZIP.
Common use cases
- Bringing iPhone photos into an editor where every further save should start from an exact copy.
- Cutting a subject out of a photo, where PNG keeps the transparency and JPG would fill it in.
- Handing a photo to a design or print workflow that asks for PNG.
- Converting sensitive photos, like documents or IDs, without giving them to a website.
Frequently asked questions
- Should I convert HEIC to PNG or JPG?
- JPG for sharing, PNG for editing. A JPG is compressed and several times smaller, which is what you want for email, messages and uploads. A PNG is an exact copy of every pixel with no compression loss, so it is the better starting point if you are going to crop, retouch or cut the photo out, because nothing degrades each time it is saved. The price is size: a PNG of a phone photo is often ten times the size of the HEIC.
- Is my photo uploaded?
- No. The decoder is downloaded to your browser once and the conversion runs on your own device. The photo is never sent anywhere, unlike most online HEIC converters, which upload it to their servers first.
- Why is the PNG so much bigger than the HEIC?
- Because they are opposites. HEIC is one of the most efficient photo formats there is, and PNG stores every pixel without the kind of compression that suits photographs. That is exactly why PNG is lossless, and exactly why it is large. If size matters more than exactness, use the HEIC to JPG converter instead.
- Why do the colors look slightly muted?
- iPhones capture a wider range of color than this converter carries into the PNG, so very saturated colors can look a little less vivid than in the Photos app. Everyday photos rarely show it. In Safari the browser's own HEIC decoder is used, which handles the wider color properly.
- Does the PNG keep the photo's location and date?
- No. The converted file has none of the original's hidden details, including the GPS location. That is useful if you are sharing the photo, but keep the HEIC too if you want the date it was taken.