Convert TIFF to QOI
Convert TIFF to QOI – extract pages as fast, lossless QOI images for games and real‑time applications.
ToFormat — free online converter
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Max file size: 30MB · Up to 20 files at once
Why ToFormat?
Fast & Lossless
QOI (Quite OK Image) is designed for speed. It compresses losslessly with simple algorithms, making encoding and decoding extremely fast — ideal for real‑time apps.
Extract All Pages
Multi‑page TIFFs become multiple QOI files – one per page. Perfect for sprite sheets, game textures, or frame‑by‑frame processing.
Transparency Support
QOI supports RGBA with full alpha channel. TIFF’s alpha channels are perfectly preserved in QOI.
About the Formats
📄 What is TIFF?
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is a flexible, lossless format created in the 1980s. It supports multiple layers, pages, various color depths, and compression options. It is the standard for printing, scanning, and digital archiving. Multi‑page TIFFs can hold entire sequences.
All TIFF conversion tools →⚡ What is QOI?
QOI (Quite OK Image) is a lossless image format created in 2021 by Dominic Szablewski. It features simple, fast encoding/decoding, good compression (often better than PNG), and supports RGB and RGBA. Designed for scenarios where speed matters.
All QOI conversion tools →How to Convert
Upload your TIFF
Drag and drop your TIFF files. You can upload up to 20 at once. Multi‑page TIFFs are supported – each page becomes a separate QOI.
Choose QOI options
QOI is always lossless. Just select whether to include alpha (if your TIFF has transparency).
Download QOIs
Your QOI files are ready. Download individually or as ZIP. Files auto‑delete in 10 minutes.
When to Convert TIFF to QOI
🎮 Game Development
QOI's fast decoding is perfect for loading textures and sprite sheets in games. Convert your multi‑page TIFF sprite sheets to QOI frames for quicker load times.
💡 Modern format: try QOI to WebP →📱 Mobile Apps
On mobile, CPU time matters. QOI decodes faster than PNG, reducing app startup time. Perfect for UI animations derived from TIFF sequences.
💡 For web: try TIFF to WebP →⚡ Real‑Time Applications
Any app needing instant image loading (UI frameworks, image viewers) benefits from QOI's simplicity.
💡 Alternative fast format: TIFF to BMP →📂 Archiving Frames
Preserve each page of your multi‑page TIFFs in a lossless, fast‑to‑decode format. QOI is great for long‑term storage of sprite assets.
💡 Lossless alternative: TIFF to PNG →Format Comparison
| Format | TIFF | QOI |
|---|---|---|
| Compression | Lossy | Lossless |
| Transparency | No | Yes |
| File Size | Smaller | Larger |
QOI is faster but less supported than PNG. For web delivery, keep TIFF or convert to WebP. For games and real‑time apps, TIFF to QOI is ideal. To go back, use QOI to TIFF.
💡 Pro Tips
- QOI is always lossless. You don't need to worry about quality settings – perfect for preserving pixel art and scanned documents.
- Decoding QOI is extremely fast – often 2‑3x faster than PNG. Great for games and real‑time apps.
- For multi‑page TIFFs, we output one QOI per page. Name them sequentially for easy import (e.g., page001.qoi, page002.qoi).
- QOI supports RGBA transparency – we preserve full alpha from your TIFF.
- Convert in batch mode – upload multiple TIFFs and download all QOI sets as a ZIP archive.
- We strip metadata by default for privacy, but you can keep EXIF by toggling the option (common in TIFF scans).
How TIFF to QOI Conversion Works
TIFF is a container format that can store uncompressed or losslessly compressed image data, often with high bit depth and multiple pages. QOI is a simple lossless format that encodes pixel data using run‑length encoding, differential encoding, and a small lookup table. When you convert TIFF to QOI, our servers decode each page of the TIFF to raw RGB(A) pixels, then compress them using the QOI algorithm. For multi‑page TIFFs, each page becomes a separate QOI file.
The process is lossless – every pixel from the original TIFF is preserved. If the TIFF uses compression (LZW, ZIP), it is decompressed before QOI encoding. Files are processed in memory and permanently deleted after 10 minutes.
TIFF vs QOI: Key Differences
Use cases: TIFF is for professional archiving, printing, and scanning – it supports compression, layers, and pages. QOI is for applications where decoding speed is critical (games, real‑time) – it’s simple, fast, and lossless.
Color depth: Both support millions of colors and alpha. TIFF can store higher bit depths (16‑bit); QOI is 8‑bit per channel.
Animation: TIFF can be multi‑page; QOI is single‑image – multi‑page TIFFs become multiple QOI files.
QOI in Game Development
Game engines often need to load many textures quickly. QOI's fast decoding reduces level load times and texture streaming overhead. It's a drop‑in replacement for PNG in many pipelines, with no patent issues. Converting your multi‑page TIFF sprite sheets to QOI frames gives you fast, lossless sprite assets ready for runtime.