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Add your HEIC files
Drop your HEIC photos here
or pick them from your device — output is lossless PNG
Supports .heic and .heif from iPhone, iPad and modern Android cameras
Nothing queued yet. Added files will appear here with their own progress bar and PNG download button.
PNG or JPG — which should you pick?
Choose PNG when the image has flat colour, sharp edges or text: screenshots, diagrams, logos, anything you will edit again later. PNG stores pixels losslessly, so re-saving it ten times leaves it identical to the first save, and it is the only one of the two formats that supports a real alpha channel.
Choose JPG for photographs you intend to share, email or upload. A photo of a beach has no hard edges for PNG to protect, so PNG spends three to five times the file size preserving sensor noise nobody can see. For those, the HEIC to JPG converter is the better tool.
The conversion itself is identical either way: the HEIC is decoded to raw pixels in a background thread on your machine, then re-encoded in the format you picked. Nothing is uploaded, and the output keeps the original pixel dimensions.
Frequently asked questions
Is converting HEIC to PNG lossless?
The PNG encoding step is lossless: every pixel handed to the encoder comes back out byte for byte. The HEIC itself was already lossy when your camera wrote it, so this is not a way to recover detail your phone discarded — it is a guarantee that converting adds no further loss on top. Expect the PNG to be considerably larger than the HEIC for that reason.
Does the PNG keep transparency?
Yes, when the source has it. HEIC supports an alpha channel, and the decoder preserves it through to the PNG. Most iPhone camera photos are fully opaque, so this matters mainly for stickers, exported graphics and edited images that carry transparent regions.
Why is my PNG bigger than the original HEIC?
Because it is doing a different job. HEIC uses HEVC compression tuned for photographs and throws away data your eye will not miss; PNG throws away nothing. A 2 MB HEIC commonly becomes a 10–15 MB PNG. If size matters more than pixel-exactness, convert to JPG instead.