You save a picture from a website, and instead of a JPG you get a file ending in .avif. Your photo viewer will not show it, the upload form rejects it, and the email program treats it as an attachment it cannot preview. Converting AVIF to JPG is the quick way out.
This AVIF to JPG converter opens Convert image with Convert to set to JPG. The conversion runs in your browser, so the picture is never uploaded, and it is free, with no account and no watermark. Below: what AVIF is, how the conversion works, and what happens to quality and transparent areas.
What is AVIF, and why will it not open?
AVIF is a newer picture format built for the web. It makes much smaller files than JPG for the same look, so many websites now send their pictures as AVIF. Current browsers show it without trouble, which is why the picture looked fine on the page.
Outside the browser it is a different story. Older photo viewers, some editing programs, office documents, print services and many upload forms do not accept it yet. Seeing AVIF not supported, or just a blank preview? The simplest fix is to change the file into a format everything reads, and that is JPG. If you only need to open an AVIF file now and then, converting it is easier than hunting for a program that reads AVIF.
JPG and JPEG are two names for the same format: some programs end the file name in .jpeg, others in .jpg, and both open in the same places. So if you came to convert AVIF to JPEG, this is the same job. The file you save here ends in .jpg.
Most AVIF files on a computer come from the web: you save a picture from a page, and the browser keeps the format the site sent. Some apps and editing programs can save AVIF too. Either way, the picture inside is an ordinary photo or graphic; only the format around it is unfamiliar. So what is AVIF, in short? A modern, efficient format that the web understands and much other software does not yet.
- Choose JPG for photos and pictures you will share, print or upload.
- Choose PNG when the picture has a transparent background you want to keep, or must stay exact: AVIF to PNG is set up for that.
How to convert AVIF to JPG
In one line: select your .avif files, keep Convert to on JPG, pick a Quality and press Convert. In full:
- Press Select images and pick your .avif files, or drop them anywhere on the page.
- Convert to is already on JPG. Pick a Quality: Smaller, Balanced or Best.
- If the picture has a transparent background, its see-through areas turn white in the JPG. Pick PNG under Convert to if they must stay clear.
- Check the stage. Split view shows the AVIF on the left and the JPG on the right.
- Press Convert, then save. holiday.avif comes out as holiday.jpg.
Each Quality choice shows the size the JPG will have, and the one you pick becomes exact once the JPG has been made in the background. The Result line then shows the format, the size in pixels and the file size you will save.
The first picture opens straight away. Current Chrome, Edge and Firefox read AVIF themselves, so nothing extra has to load before you start.
Transparent AVIF pictures and JPG
AVIF can store transparency, and logos, icons and product cut-outs on websites often use it. JPG cannot. So when a picture with see-through areas goes to JPG, those areas are filled with white.
- On a document, a white web page or a print, the white fill does not show, so a JPG is fine.
- On a dark slide or a coloured page, the white shows as a box around the logo or cut-out.
- If you do not know yet where it will go, make a PNG copy as well, since PNG keeps the transparency.
If you need the background to stay see-through, JPG is the wrong target: save AVIF as PNG instead, and the transparency is kept as it is. On this page, pick PNG under Convert to.
Saved a logo that you want as the icon for your own site? Skip JPG: PNG to ICO opens the AVIF as it is and keeps its transparency in favicon.ico.
Getting the quality right when you save AVIF as JPG
An AVIF from a website has already been compressed once. Going from AVIF to JPEG compresses it again, in a different way, so pick a Quality that leaves enough room. The three choices stand for 60, 80 and 95 on the usual 0 to 100 scale.
| Quality | Number | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Smaller | 60 | Email, chat and forms with a tight size limit |
| Balanced | 80 | Most pictures: the default, and very hard to tell from the original |
| Best | 95 | Prints, pictures with fine text, and anything you will edit |
Expect the JPG to be bigger than the AVIF. That is normal: JPG is the older, less efficient format, and opening everywhere is what you are paying for. If the JPG is too big for a form, Smaller usually solves it, and Compress JPEG can bring it under a set size.
To judge fine detail, press 100% in the zoom buttons under the stage and drag the Split view divider across a face or a line of text. Zoom only changes your view, never the JPG.
Batches and privacy
To batch convert AVIF to JPG, select up to 100 pictures at once, or add more from the work screen. Each is converted with the same settings, the button counts them (Convert 15 pictures), and Save all as ZIP saves the results together. Each JPG keeps the name of its AVIF.
- Other pictures open on this page too, such as WebP or PNG, and come out as JPG. A file that is already a JPG is saved again with _converted in its name.
- Every JPG is drawn fresh, so camera, date and location details are not copied into it.
- Nothing is uploaded: the picture is converted in your browser, and our server does no picture work.
- It is free, with no account and no watermark. Image tools are not counted in the free daily limit, which applies to document conversions only.
- It works in current Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Very large pictures may be too big for your browser.
For another format, such as WebP or TIFF, pick it under Convert to on this page. WebP pictures saved from the web have their own pages too: convert WebP to JPG for photos, or convert WebP to PNG to keep their transparency.
Need the words in a picture rather than the picture? Image to Text does not read AVIF, so make a JPG here first, then get the text from picture from that.
Open your AVIF files anywhere
To change AVIF to JPG, select your pictures, keep Convert to on JPG, pick a Quality and press Convert. The JPGs keep their names and open in almost any program.
It is free and private, with nothing to install. Select your AVIF pictures above to start.
