HEIC converter

HEIC is why photos straight off an iPhone refuse to open on so many other devices. Every HEIC conversion on this site is decoded entirely inside your browser with WebAssembly: your camera roll never touches a server, which matters more for personal photos than for almost any other kind of file.

What is HEIC?

HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) is the HEIF container holding HEVC-compressed images, and it has been the default camera format on iPhone since iOS 11 in 2017. It stores photos at roughly half the size of an equivalent JPG and can carry bursts, depth maps and Live Photo stills. Outside the Apple ecosystem support is poor: Windows often demands a paid codec extension and no browser will display a .heic file.

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