I know this is an audio forum but I figured there’s probably some graphical questions waiting to be asked since you can find adobe bundles in the “museum”…

What’s the best way to convert a ton of AVIF images to .png all at once? Looking for a way to do this in bulk before moving onto individual image processing cause I have a boatload from somewhere and want to use them in image editors of any kind and not just photoshop or something more sophisticated, in case the editor is for an older Mac from a decade ago for example

I searched google but I don’t know if any online converters will be the best way to go, I’m looking for an easy offline solution that spits the folder input out with pngs instead, without any adware or such

Anyone who is able to find such a solution will be involved with the resurrection of my monster projects from when I was in shop class and now unburdened by time or ripoff artists

 

h**ps://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-tools.php

These come in handy.

Magick Script for your situation.

 

Is this available for both windows and macOS? I will give this a shot tomorrow since it’s getting late and maybe some more suggestions will appear overnight

 

Yep. it's multiplatform

The other best option would be ffmpeg.

 

XnView has a good batch converter/scripter that will get the job done. I'd be really surprised if IrfanView couldn't do this as well.

ImageMagick is great if you're comfortable with the command line, something like this will work (though you might want to optimize the parameters a bit):

For Bash (should work for macOS):

Code:

for imgfile in *.avif; do magick convert ${imgfile} $(basename -s.avif ${imgfile}.png); done

For Powershell (Windows):

Code:

foreach($imgfile in gci ".\*.avif") { iex "magick convert $($imgfile.fullname) $($imgfile.basename).png" };

*edit:* added powershell script

 

Last edited: Aug 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM

More options:

I'm guessing you're on Mac. Extract avifdec into a folder in your path, change avifdec's permissions to readable and executable.

Then cd to the directory where your avifs are stored and run:

Code:

find . -type f -name '*.avif' -exec avifdec {} {}.png \;

 

1. AVIF to PNG Converter ---> https://cloudconvert.com/avif-to-png

CloudConvert converts your image files online. Amongst many others, we support PNG, JPG, GIF, WEBP and HEIC.
You can use the options to control image resolution, quality and file size.

2. How To Convert AVIF to JPG Using GIMP - The Ultimate Guide
Windows 11 asks you to download an AV1 Video Extension before you are able to view AVIF files.
AV1 Video Extension ---> https://av1-video-extension.en.uptodown.com/windows

GIMP is Free ---> www.gimp.org/downloads

 

Last edited: Aug 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM