HEIC to JPG Converter
Convert HEIC images to JPG right in your browser. Batch, private, no uploads, and a dropped folder adds up to 3,000 files at a time.
- Free, no account
- No watermark
- No usage limit
About the HEIC to JPG Converter
You shot a photo on your iPhone, went to email it or drop it into some website, and got stopped cold. "File type not supported." Or you sent it to a friend on Windows and they got a blank icon where the picture should be. That is HEIC, the format Apple has quietly saved your photos in since 2017, and half the internet still cannot open it. This tool turns those files into plain JPG that works on any phone, any PC, any upload form, any app. Drop one photo or a hundred, no sign-up, no watermark, no daily cap.
The free converters are where this gets sketchy. A lot of the "free HEIC to JPG" sites you find online do not convert anything on your computer. They upload your photo to their server, convert it there, and hand you back a download link. For a picture of a sunset, who cares. For a photo of your kid, your passport, or a whiteboard covered in work stuff, you just handed a private image to a company you have never heard of, and you are trusting them to actually delete it, which is a trade this one never asks you to make. Your photo does not leave your machine, full stop. It does not work offline, and I would rather say so here than have you find out mid-holiday with a phone full of photos nobody else can open. Reading HEIC at all takes a 1,458,915-byte decoder, easily the largest thing this site fetches for a picture, and the JPEG writer is another 251,524 on top. Both come down on your first press of Convert, and the built export confirms neither is among the scripts that arrive with the page. What none of that changes is the direction of travel. A piece of this page comes to you, and your photo does not go anywhere.
And it goes a step further than most converters bother to. Every iPhone photo carries a hidden block of data called EXIF, and buried in there are the GPS coordinates of exactly where you were standing when you took the shot. Post that photo to a marketplace listing or a public forum and you can be handing out your home address without knowing it. This converter scrubs that out on the way through. The JPG you get back has no location, no camera serial, none of it. The honest trade is that it also drops the date the photo was taken, so if you lean on that to keep your camera roll sorted, know it going in.
How to use
- Drag your HEIC photos onto the box, or click to browse, or paste one straight from your clipboard. A whole batch is fine, that is what it is built for.
- Leave the quality slider where it sits (around 80) for a JPG that holds onto the detail in the original. Nudge it toward 70 if you want smaller files for email.
- Hit Convert. It all happens right there in the page, which is why it is quick and why nothing gets uploaded.
- Download each JPG on its own, or click Download all (ZIP) to grab the whole set in one file. Handy when you just converted forty photos off a trip.
No account, no email address, no "your file will be ready in 30 seconds" while an ad plays.
Why your JPG comes out bigger than the HEIC
This one catches people off guard, so here it is plain. Your converted JPG will usually be larger than the HEIC you started with, sometimes close to double. That is not a bug and the tool is not doing anything wrong. HEIC squeezes a photo with the same compression tech that sits behind 4K video, and it is genuinely better at it than JPG, so it stores the same picture in fewer bytes. JPG is older and simpler, and to hold a picture that looks just as good it plain needs more room.
You are trading a bigger file for a photo that opens literally everywhere, and for almost everyone that is the right call, because a photo you cannot open is not worth the space it saved you. If the size does bug you, drop the quality slider toward 70. The file shrinks a good bit and still looks clean for email, messaging, or posting online. Push much lower than that and you start to see it on detailed shots, so I would not go crazy with it.
Where HEIC actually trips you up
The format itself is fine, it is the compatibility that is the problem. Windows could not open HEIC at all for years without a codec you had to install from the Microsoft Store, and even now plenty of individual apps on Windows 10 and 11 still choke on it. Web browsers will not display a .heic file, which is exactly why so many upload forms reject it outright: job portals, government sites, insurance claims, print-photo services. Send one to a friend on an older Android and there is a solid chance they get a file that simply will not open, and email is where it catches people out most quietly. Some clients show a HEIC attachment as a generic mystery icon with no preview, so the person on the other end assumes you sent them something broken.
None of that is HEIC being bad technology. The real snag is patents. The codec inside it is tangled up in licensing, so browsers and operating systems have been slow and reluctant to support it, while JPG is royalty free and works everywhere without anyone thinking twice. Converting is just how you step around all of that.
Frequently asked questions
Is it really free and private, no catch?
Yes, and the honest answer to "what's the catch" is worth spelling out, because that is usually where these tools get you. There is no account to create and no watermark stamped on the result. There is also no counter that lets you convert a few files free and then asks for a card. What keeps it free is the ads on the page. That is also why the privacy side holds up. A server-based converter needs your uploaded file sitting on its end, and the free ones have to make their money off that traffic somehow, but your photo never gets sent anywhere here, so there is nothing on our side to package up or sell. The ads cover the cost, and that is all there is to it.
What if one of the files won't convert?
The rest still go through. One broken file does not stop the batch, so if a single photo is damaged or turns out not to be a real HEIC, the good ones finish and download as normal while the problem file gets listed on its own with the reason it failed. You are not stuck restarting the whole batch because one was corrupt, and you are not left guessing which one broke. There is no fixed cap on how many you can queue up either, as long as you are handing over the photos themselves. It all runs on your own device, so the real ceiling is your machine's memory rather than a limit we set, and a big stack works its way through a few files at a time. Drag in a whole folder and one number does apply, because the tool walks it to the first 3,000 photos and then says plainly that it stopped there, which is your cue to send the remainder through on a second drop.
Will the JPG look worse than the original photo?
On detail, no. Both HEIC and JPG throw away a little data to save space, so re-encoding costs a sliver on paper, but at the default quality you would have to zoom right in and hunt pixel by pixel to find it.
Color is where the honest catch sits. iPhones have shot in a wide color range called Display P3 since about 2017, and the JPG that comes out of here does not carry the tag that tells a viewer which range the numbers belong to. On a wide-gamut screen that can leave strong reds and greens looking a touch more vivid than the original. For email, uploads, messaging and the web it is not something anyone notices. If you are matching a brand color or sending a photo to print, export that one through the Photos app on your Mac or iPhone instead, since Apple writes the tag and this converter cannot.
What happens to a Live Photo when I convert it?
You get the still frame as a normal JPG, which is the actual picture. The little moving clip that makes it a Live Photo is a separate video file sitting on your phone, and converting the still does not touch it. So the motion part stays put, and you end up with the regular photo, which is nearly always what you were after anyway.
How do I check the location data is actually gone?
Fair thing to want to confirm, since you are trusting a claim you cannot see. On Windows, right-click the JPG you downloaded, open Properties, and look under the Details tab. A photo straight off your phone shows a GPS section with a latitude and longitude sitting there. The converted copy will not, that whole section comes up empty. On a Mac, open the file in Preview and check Tools then Show Inspector, where the location tab has nothing in it. It is the plainest way to see for yourself that the coordinates came off, instead of taking our word for it.
Can I do this on my iPhone instead of a computer?
Yes. Open this page in Safari or Chrome on the phone and convert straight from your camera roll, no app to install. It is the same private, on-device process as on a laptop, just on a smaller screen.
How do I stop my iPhone making HEIC files at all?
On the phone go to Settings, then Camera, then Formats, and pick "Most Compatible." From then on it saves photos as JPG right from the camera and you skip the conversion step entirely. The cost is roughly double the storage per shot, which is the exact saving HEIC was giving you in the first place. If your phone has room and you are forever moving photos to Windows or posting them around, that setting is the cleanest fix. If you are tight on space, leave HEIC on and just convert the odd file that needs it, which is what this is here for.