HEIC to PNG

Pick PNG when the image has a future: retouching, resizing, compositing, or repeated saves. It's also the better choice for screenshots and anything with sharp text or UI elements, where JPEG artifacts show up fast. For photos that just need to be shared once, JPG's smaller size usually wins.

No. PNG is a lossless format, so whatever the decoder produces is stored bit for bit. Keep in mind the source HEIC was already compressed by the camera, so the PNG faithfully preserves that decoded result rather than some purer original.

HEIC borrows video grade compression from HEVC, which is extremely efficient on photographic content. PNG only applies lossless deflate compression, so a photo that was small as HEIC usually becomes much larger as PNG. That's the price of an editable, lossless copy.

The decoder is a sizable WebAssembly module, so it's fetched on demand rather than bundled into the page. You'll see the loading notice once, after which it's cached and conversions start immediately on return visits.

Yes, the uploader accepts both .heic and .heif extensions. HEIF is the broader container standard and HEIC is the HEVC compressed variant Apple uses, and the same decoder reads both.

A Live Photo pairs a still image with a short video clip. This tool decodes the still frame and converts that to PNG; the motion component isn't part of the output. If you want the clip itself, export it as a video from the Photos app instead.

Files up to 50 MB each are accepted, and you can queue as many as your browser's memory tolerates. Everyday iPhone captures sit far below that line, so the limit rarely gets in the way.