HEIC Converter

Safari displays HEIC natively; Chrome and Firefox do not. That gap is why the same photo opens fine on an iPhone or a Mac and refuses to open in Chrome on Windows — and, ultimately, why upload forms still ask for JPEG.

This tool decodes HEIC into pixels inside the browser and writes the result out as JPEG or PNG. The decoder is loaded only when you actually need it, so it costs nothing when you are using the other tools.

You can output JPEG or PNG. For photographs, JPEG is normally the right answer. Quality presets are high (92), balanced (75), and small (55), and a direct value can be entered; the default is 92, chosen so that converting out of HEIC does not visibly cost you quality.

PNG is lossless, so nothing degrades, but for photographs the file will be considerably larger than JPEG. Choose it when the image is an intermediate you will edit further, or when transparency is involved.

HEIC compresses efficiently, so expressing the same quality as JPEG normally produces a bigger file. "It got larger after converting" is not a failure, it is the nature of the formats. If size matters, drop the quality preset or chain compression or resizing afterwards.

HEIC decoding is computationally heavy, and high-resolution photos can take a moment. You may wait longer than you would on a server-side converter — in exchange, the photo never leaves your device, which matters most for exactly the photos you would hesitate to upload.

Files with .heic and .heif extensions are accepted. If your iPhone is set to "Most Compatible", photos are already saved as JPEG and you do not need this tool at all.

To submit documents or receipts photographed on an iPhone as a PDF: the image-to-PDF tool accepts only PNG and JPEG, so HEIC cannot go in directly. Convert to JPEG here first — and slot in the EXIF remover on the way if the location should not travel with them.