Convert AVIF to PNG

Need the transparency or universal compatibility PNG offers, but your source is AVIF? Drop your files below — img-compress converts them right in your browser, no account and nothing uploaded, one image or a whole folder at once.

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Why convert AVIF to PNG instead of JPG?

It's the same tradeoff that comes up converting a WebP: AVIF keeps a transparent background, and sending it through a JPG converter would replace that with a solid fill instead. PNG is the direct swap that keeps everything exactly as it was — same pixels, same transparency — in a format essentially every tool and platform already recognizes.

PNG is also the safer bet for design and print workflows that expect it specifically, regardless of what's actually in the image — some tools simply won't take anything else.

AVIF vs WebP: Why AVIF Compresses Better →

Expect the file to get bigger

This is the conversion that surprises people most, so it's worth stating up front: converting AVIF to PNG will usually produce a much larger file, often several times larger. That is the formats working correctly, not a bug. AVIF is one of the most efficient lossy formats there is; PNG is lossless and stores every pixel exactly. Going from the first to the second means giving up all of that efficiency by design.

The effect is worst on photographs, which is where AVIF is strongest and PNG is weakest. A photo has almost no exact repetition for PNG to exploit, so the file stays huge. On a flat graphic — a logo, a diagram — the gap is much smaller, because that content is what PNG was built for.

And it won't look any better

PNG being lossless does not mean the image becomes lossless retroactively. The detail the AVIF encoder discarded is gone permanently, and PNG faithfully preserves whatever it is handed — including the artifacts. What you get is an exact copy of a lossy image: bigger, not better.

That still makes sense in two situations. If the image is going into an editing pipeline where further lossy passes would compound, a lossless intermediate stops the degradation from stacking. And if you need a transparent background in a format that absolutely everything accepts, PNG is the safest file to hand over. Outside those cases, JPG is usually the more sensible target.

FAQ

Why is the PNG so much larger than the AVIF?

Because AVIF is a highly efficient lossy format and PNG is lossless. PNG has to store every pixel exactly, which it does well for flat graphics and badly for photographs. If you wanted a smaller file rather than a lossless one, convert to JPG or WebP instead.

Does converting to PNG restore quality?

No. Nothing restores detail a lossy encoder already discarded. You end up with a lossless copy of the degraded image. PNG is the right target for editing or for guaranteed compatibility with transparency — not for recovering quality.

When should I pick PNG over JPG here?

When the image has a transparent background you need to keep, or when it's going into further editing and you want to stop lossy passes from accumulating. For a plain photograph that just needs to be accepted somewhere, JPG will be far smaller and just as compatible.