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Turn a PNG image into a modern AVIF image, when your browser supports saving AVIF.
Only PNG images are accepted on this page.
Your image never leaves your browser. Conversion happens on your own device, and nothing is uploaded to a server. Most browsers, including Chrome, cannot save AVIF images from a web page, so this page tells you up front if yours cannot. In that case choose PNG or WebP instead. Transparency in your PNG would be kept in an AVIF made by a browser that can save it.
AVIF is the newest photo format, built to keep images sharp at file sizes even smaller than WebP, which makes it tempting for large PNG files. The PNG to AVIF Converter turns your PNG image into an AVIF image when your browser can save AVIF.
Everything runs in your browser, so your images are never uploaded to a server. There is one honest catch, explained on this page: most browsers cannot save AVIF images from a web page yet, even though they can display AVIF. This page checks your browser first and tells you plainly, instead of handing you a wrongly named file.
Keep the PNG when you need a pixel perfect master, because AVIF is lossy and this conversion would give up the exact pixels PNG preserves. Use WebP as the practical small file choice today, because it works in every current browser for both saving and display, and it keeps transparency too. Use AVIF when your browser can save it and you want the smallest possible published file.
Yes, it is completely free with no sign up and no limits. You can convert as many PNG images as you like, as often as you like.
Most browsers can display AVIF but cannot save it from a web page canvas, and Chrome is one of them. This is a browser limit, not a fault in the tool. The tool refuses rather than giving you a PNG file wrongly named as AVIF.
Use WebP for a small modern file that works everywhere and keeps transparency, or keep the PNG for a lossless file. Both are made by this site in the same way, in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
AVIF itself supports transparency, so a browser that can save AVIF would keep see through areas. In a browser that cannot save AVIF, no AVIF file is produced at all, so there is no broken file to worry about.
No. The conversion happens in your browser on your own device, so your images never leave your computer.
The tool shows a clear message and does not convert anything. Choose a PNG image and try again.
Need the reverse direction? Try the AVIF to PNG Converter to convert back the other way.