Why convert PNG to AVIF?
AVIF supports alpha transparency just like PNG and WebP, but compresses harder than either. For PNG sources with complex content — dashboards, screenshots, product cutouts — AVIF often saves another 10–20% over the equivalent WebP, while keeping visual quality intact.
If your users' browsers support AVIF (>90% global share) it is the most efficient format you can ship today for transparency-bearing images.
AVIF transparency vs PNG transparency
AVIF stores an 8-bit alpha channel and supports lossy compression on the alpha plane independently from the colour plane. The default settings here keep alpha lossless for clean cutouts and anti-aliased edges, so converted icons and logos look identical to the PNG source.
How the converter works
- Drop or select one or more PNG files (up to 20 MB each).
- We re-encode with libvips + libaom, preserving alpha and using quality 60 at encode speed 6.
- Download the AVIF or grab a ZIP for multiple files.