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Abstract An environmentally-friendly lead-free methylammonium tin iodide (MASnI3) perovskite is successfully synthesized using a facile approach of an antisolvent-assisted collision technique (ACT) under room ambient conditions, which results stability within 24 h under ambient room conditions. The phase transition of MASnI3 from tetragonal to cubic is first observed at ~ 30 °C. Polycrystalline MASnI3 films reveal a high dielectric constant of ~ 65 at 100 kHz, a low-leakage current density of 7 × 10−7 A cm−2 at 50 kV cm−1, well-developed P-E hysteresis loops, and a high piezoelectric coefficient (d33) of 20.8 pm V−1. The MASnI3 piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG) shows an output voltage of ~ 3.8 V and an output current density of 0.35 μA cm−2. To enhance the piezoelectric output performance, the MASnI3 films are composited with an environmentally friendly PVDF polymer that had a porous structure. The PVDF-MASnI3 composite based-PENG reveals a maximum output voltage of ~ 12.0 V and current density of ~ 4.0 μA cm−2. A green light-emitting diode (LED) using the PVDF-MASnI3 PENGs is instantly lighted without need of a storage device, and long-term stability of the composite PENGs is validated for 90 days. This simple and cost-effective solution process is feasible for the fabrication of large-scale, high-performance, and environmental-friendly PENGs based on lead-free organic-inorganic perovskites to extensively implicate in medical and biomechanical applications.