Free converter
HEICPNGHEIC to PNG Converter
The conversion to choose when the photo is going to be edited rather than just looked at. PNG is lossless, so the image will not degrade a little further every time it is saved — which matters for screenshots, for anything with text in it, and for images heading into a design tool. PhotoTray does it locally, on as many files as you like.
Drop in your files — Needs Microsoft's free HEIF Image Extension — PhotoTray checks on first run and links you straight to it.
Why convert
Why convert HEIC to PNG rather than JPG
JPG is the right answer for sharing photos, and PNG is the right answer for everything else. PNG is lossless: the file you get out is the exact image the decoder produced, and editing and re-saving it costs nothing. JPEG loses a little each time, and on screenshots or images with sharp edges and text those losses are visible rather than theoretical.
- An iPhone screenshot that needs annotating without smearing the text.
- Photos heading into a design tool for real editing work.
- Preserving maximum fidelity from a photo you may edit repeatedly.
- Getting an image into a pipeline or a tool that expects PNG specifically.
How it works
Convert HEIC to PNG in a few clicks
- 1
Drop your HEIC files in
One or a whole folder. There is no count or size limit.
- 2
Choose PNG
There is no quality setting because there is no quality loss. Palette optimisation is available if you want smaller files.
- 3
Get lossless PNGs back
In the folder you picked, with the HEIC originals untouched.
The details
HEIC to PNG, at a glance
- Engine
- Windows Imaging Component, via PhotoTray's bundled decoder
- Requires
- Microsoft's free HEIF Image Extension (PhotoTray checks and links you to it)
- Output
- PNG, lossless
- Metadata
- EXIF date and orientation carried across
- Where it runs
- Your own PC — nothing is uploaded
- Limits
- None — no file count, no file-size cap, no watermark
- Platform
- Windows 10/11 (x64)
Questions
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This conversion is part of the full tool — which handles the other formats in the same batch, and can keep doing it on a folder you choose.
Runs on your PC · nothing uploaded · no watermark, no file limit