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Convert AVIF to PNG

Drop your AVIF files below. They are converted on your own device and never sent anywhere.

Convert to PNG when you have saved an .avif from a website and need to use it in software that will not open it — which today is most software that is not a browser. It is converted by your own browser here, so the file is never uploaded.

Nothing is uploaded. Your files are read by this page and processed by your own processor. Open the Network tab and watch — you will not see them leave.

AVIF and PNG, and why you would move between them

AVIF is the newest of the mainstream web formats and the most efficient — it routinely beats WebP by another 20% or so at the same quality. Browsers have supported it since 2020, which means sites have started serving it, which means people are now saving .avif files and discovering that almost nothing outside a browser will open them.

PNG is the safe landing place. It is lossless, so nothing further is lost in the conversion, it keeps transparency, and there is no software still in use that cannot read it. The trade is size: AVIF is extremely good at compression and PNG does none, so expect the file to grow considerably.

Things that catch people out

  • The size increase here is larger than for any other conversion on this site. AVIF is roughly ten times more efficient than PNG on photographs, so a 150KB AVIF can become a 3MB PNG. That is the format working as designed, not a fault.
  • AVIF supports HDR and wide colour gamuts that PNG handles poorly. A file that exploits those will look flatter after conversion, most visibly in bright skies and saturated reds.
  • AVIF can hold an image sequence. Only the first image is converted.
  • If the destination is a website rather than a person, converting to WebP instead keeps most of the size advantage while being accepted essentially everywhere.

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Questions

What actually opens an AVIF file?

Every current browser, and increasingly little else. Windows needs an extension from the Store, macOS has supported it since Ventura, and most desktop image editors still do not. Converting is usually faster than fighting it.

Is AVIF better than PNG?

For photographs and for delivering images over a network, by a wide margin. For compatibility, archiving, and anything with text or hard edges, PNG remains the safer choice. They are solving different problems.

What BriskFile will not do to you

  • Your files never leave your device

    Every conversion runs in your browser. Open DevTools, watch the Network tab, and you will see no upload — because there is not one.

  • No account, no email, no watermark

    Nothing to sign up for and nothing stamped on your images. There is no step between choosing a file and getting it back.

  • No limits at the download button

    No daily cap, no file counter, no "upgrade to download". If the tool starts a job, it finishes it.

  • Checkable, not just claimed

    Open the Network tab and convert something — nothing goes out. Or load the page, disconnect, and watch it keep working: the tool is already on your machine, and your file never leaves it.