Free tool · works offline · no upload
Convert HEIC photos to JPG
Phones often save photos as HEIC, which many websites and older computers can't open. Choose your HEIC photos and get JPG copies, made right here on your device.
- 1Choose
- 2Check
- 3Process
- 4Verify
- 5Download
Runs entirely in this page. Your files are never uploaded: apart from a cookie-free visit count, this page's security policy blocks it from sending anything.
How to use it
- Choose one or more HEIC or HEIF photos, or drop them on the box.
- Pick JPG for the widest support, or PNG if you need a lossless copy. For JPG, High quality suits almost everything.
- Press Convert. Your browser decodes each photo, turns it the right way up, and saves it in the new format.
- The tool opens each new file to check its size and compares it with the original picture before offering it.
- Download each photo, or all of them as one ZIP.
What HEIC is, and why it gets stuck
HEIC is the High Efficiency Image File Format holding a photo compressed the same way modern video is. iPhones have saved photos this way by default for years, and some Android phones offer it as an option. It keeps a photo’s look in about half the space of a JPG, which is a good deal for your phone’s storage.
The catch is support. Many upload forms accept only JPG or PNG, some older computers can’t open HEIC without extra software, and photo printing kiosks and office programs often refuse it. A JPG copy fixes all of that.
How the conversion works
If your browser can read HEIC itself, the tool uses that. Most can’t, so the page loads a decoder built from libheif, a widely used open-source HEIF library, compiled to run inside the browser. It’s part of the page’s own code, not a service somewhere else, and it loads only when you convert your first photo.
Each photo is decoded, turned the way it was taken (phones often store photos sideways with a note on which way is up), and saved as JPG or PNG. Then the tool opens the new file, checks that it has the right size, and compares a small version of it with the original to make sure the picture came through intact. Only then does the download button appear.
Very large photos are reduced to about 16 megapixels if needed, because that’s the most a phone browser can reliably hold. The tool tells you when this happens. Regular 12- and 24-megapixel phone photos are converted at full size on a computer.
Private by design
Photos that need converting are often the personal ones: family, documents, a screenshot of something sensitive. None of them pass through a server here. The only thing the page sends is a cookie-free visit count (which page, the site you came from, your browser type and how fast the page loaded), and its security policy blocks every other connection.
Converting is also a quiet privacy win. The JPG is a fresh file with only the picture in it, so it doesn’t carry the location, the phone model or the time it was taken. If you need those kept, share the original instead.
Questions
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. The conversion runs inside this page on your device. The page's security policy blocks it from sending your files anywhere, so it works the same with your connection off once the page has loaded.
Does converting HEIC to JPG lose quality?
A little, as any JPG save does, but at High quality the difference is very hard to see. Choose PNG if you need a copy that loses nothing more, at the cost of a much larger file.
Why is the JPG bigger than the HEIC?
HEIC packs a photo into roughly half the space JPG needs for the same look. That efficiency is why phones use it. A JPG of the same picture is usually larger.
Is the location kept in the JPG?
No. The new file is drawn fresh from the picture, so it carries no location, camera details or dates. The original HEIC on your device is unchanged.
Why did the first photo take a few seconds?
Most browsers can't read HEIC themselves, so the page loads a HEIC decoder the first time it's needed (about 0.7 MB). It's stored in your browser's cache, and later photos start right away.
What happens to a Live or burst photo?
The tool converts the main still picture. The short video that some phones attach is a separate file, and extra pictures stored in the same HEIC are left out. The tool tells you when a file held more than one.