Convert AVIF to PNG

Photographs should usually be JPG: Convert AVIF to JPG. The same job for other modern files is WebP to PNG or HEIC to PNG. The image converter handles the rest.

AVIF can hold a photograph, and it can also hold a graphic with an alpha channel: a logo, a product cutout, an illustration. Older design tools and office apps that have never heard of AVIF usually do accept PNG, including the transparent pixels. This page is that hand-off. The browser decodes the AVIF, and the PNG is written locally.

A phone or stock photo that happens to be AVIF has nothing transparent to save. PNG will open it, and it will also inflate it, because you asked a lossless format to store a picture AV1 had packed tightly. For that file, AVIF to JPG is the practical conversion.

PNG does not recover detail a lossy AVIF discarded. It only refuses to damage the decoded image further, which matters if you will mask, recolor, or place the graphic on other backgrounds. Sharp edges and flat colors survive well. Photographs mostly survive as a bigger file.

Wide color and HDR are flattened to 8-bit sRGB by the browser canvas. If you needed the AVIF because it was the HDR master, this PNG is a compatibility copy, not a replacement master. Animation is dropped; one frame is written.

People search for AVIF conversion mostly to escape a file an older tool rejected. Gizmobench’s 2026 format study is the public look at that pattern. Do not convert an AVIF you are about to publish on a site that can serve it.

• The destination opens AVIF. Keep the smaller file.
• You need a small photograph for email. Use JPG, then compress if a form has a cap.
• You need the animation. This page will not invent one.