Convert HEIC to JPG right in your browser
This converter works differently from most. When you add your first file, the page loads an open-source HEIF decoder — roughly a megabyte of code, fetched once — and from then on every photo is decoded and re-encoded right in the page. There is no upload to wait for, and closing the tab clears the workspace.
How to use it
- Add your files. Drop
.heicor.heifphotos into the zone above, click it to browse, or paste with ⌘V. A whole batch at once is fine. - Choose an output. JPG is the default and right for photos; the quality slider starts at 90. Switch to PNG when you need a lossless copy.
- Download. Save files one by one, or press Download all once the counter reads “5 of 5 converted”.
What is a HEIC file, and why does your iPhone create them?
HEIC is the extension Apple uses for images stored in HEIF, the High Efficiency Image File format. iPhones have shot it by default since iOS 11 because it fits the same photo into roughly half the space of a JPG, supports 10-bit color, and can hold several frames — bursts, Live Photo stills — in a single container.
Inside the Apple ecosystem the format is invisible. The trouble starts when a file leaves it: Windows asks you to install an HEVC codec before Photos will open one, older Android versions and plenty of web upload forms reject the extension outright, and tools built before 2017 have simply never heard of it. Converting HEIC to JPG is still the universal fix, because JPG opens on anything that can display an image.
JPG or PNG — choosing the output
For photographs, pick JPG. At the default quality of 90 the converted file is visually indistinguishable from the original in everyday use. Drop toward 80 when file size matters more than pixel-level fidelity — email attachments, portals with upload limits. Push to 100 only if the file will be edited again later: it roughly doubles the size for a difference you will struggle to spot.
PNG is lossless, but it is the wrong container for photos — a 2 MB HEIC can easily become a 15 MB PNG. Choose it only when a workflow demands pixel-exact input.
Metadata is not carried over — usually a plus
This converter decodes each photo and redraws its pixels, so EXIF metadata — camera model, capture time and, notably, GPS location — is not copied into the output. If you are converting photos to post publicly, that is a quiet privacy win: the JPG carries no record of where it was taken. If you need timestamps or location for documentation, keep the original HEIC files; conversion never modifies them.
Prefer JPG straight from the camera
If you convert constantly, change the source instead: Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible makes the iPhone shoot JPG directly. To keep HEIC’s storage savings on the phone but still hand JPGs to computers, leave Formats on High Efficiency and set Settings → Photos → Transfer to Mac or PC → Automatic.
Once converted, the files behave like any other image: mark one up in the annotate screenshot tool, pull the words out of one with image to text, or browse all the free tools. And if screenshots are a daily part of your Mac work, that is exactly what our app is for — see what Snapix does.
