HEIC → PNG
Convert HEIC to PNG
PNG is lossless: it throws nothing away. Pick it when the image is going into a document, a design tool, or anywhere the picture will be edited again afterwards.
Convert your files
How it works
PNG or JPG?
Choose PNG when the image will be edited, layered, or re-saved more than once, and when quality matters more than file size. Each time a JPG is saved it loses a little more detail; a PNG saved a hundred times is identical to the first. PNG also keeps transparency, which matters if the HEIC came from a screenshot or an edited image with a cut-out background.
Choose JPG instead when you are emailing holiday photos, uploading to a website, or anywhere file size matters. A PNG of a normal photograph is often five to ten times larger than the JPG of the same picture.
Why the file got so much bigger
That is expected, not a fault. PNG stores every pixel exactly rather than approximating, and photographs contain a great deal of fine detail that compresses badly under lossless rules. If the size is a problem, the picture is probably better served as JPG or WebP.
Questions
Does PNG keep transparency from the original?
Yes. If the HEIC carries an alpha channel, it survives the conversion. Converting the same file to JPG would flatten it, because JPG has no way to store transparency.
Is there any quality loss?
None. PNG is lossless, which is why there is no quality slider on this page — there is nothing to trade away.
Why is there no quality setting?
Because a lossless format has no quality setting to offer. Any slider here would be decoration.