Free HEIC to JPG converter
Turn HEIC photos into JPGs that open anywhere.
Drop in the photos your iPhone saved as HEIC and get JPGs back. No upload, no queue, no watermark, no email address. The converting happens on your device, in this browser tab.
Your photos never leave this device. There is no upload, no server, and no copy kept — closing or refreshing the page clears the list.
Why in the browser
Every other converter asks you to upload the photo first.
Search for a HEIC converter and almost every result works the same way. You upload the file, a server somewhere turns it into a JPG, you download the result, and a line in the small print promises the copy is deleted in an hour. It works. It is also a stranger’s computer holding a picture of your child, on the strength of a sentence you did not read.
Your browser can already do this. It knows how to draw a picture and how to write a JPEG, which is all a conversion actually is, so the work belongs on the device you are holding. Nothing is sent, nothing waits in a queue, and a batch of twenty is limited by your own machine rather than by somebody’s free tier. On an iPhone or a Mac it is close to instant, because Safari can read HEIC by itself; on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge the page quietly loads a decoder the first time you convert something.
One trade comes with it, and it is worth knowing. A converted JPG is a brand new file, so it no longer carries the date the HEIC was holding. If these photos are headed for an email that is a feature. If they are headed for an album it is a loss, and there is a way around it: Our Pear Tree reads HEIC files directly and keeps their original dates, so a whole camera roll lands on the days it actually happened without ever becoming JPGs. Before you convert anything irreplaceable, it is worth a moment with the photo date checker to see what date the file is carrying. And if you are converting precisely because you want the hidden data gone, the photo metadata remover will show you what a photo is carrying before you send it on.
Questions
About the HEIC to JPG converter
Is anything uploaded?
No. Nearly every other HEIC converter works by sending your photo to a server, converting it there, and asking you to trust that the copy gets deleted afterwards. This one does the work on your device, inside this browser tab. The photo is never sent anywhere, there is no queue behind other people’s files, and closing the page clears everything. For a receipt that hardly matters. For four hundred pictures of your kids, it is the whole point.
How many photos can I convert at once?
Up to 20 at a time. They convert one after another so your phone or laptop stays responsive, and each one gets its own Save button the moment it is finished, so you do not have to wait for the slowest file. When the list is done, clear it and drop in the next 20. There is no daily limit, no account, and no upgrade prompt.
Does it keep the photo quality?
Yes. The JPG comes out at full size — same width, same height, nothing resized or cropped — and is written at 90% quality, which is roughly what phones and cameras use for their own JPEGs. JPEG is a lossy format, so a converted file is not identical to the HEIC down to the last byte, but at any normal viewing or printing size you will not see the difference. Keep the HEIC originals if you want the smaller files as well.
Does the JPG keep the photo’s date and location?
No. The JPG your browser writes is a fresh file: it carries the picture and nothing else, so the capture date, the GPS coordinates, and the camera name are all left behind. That is a good thing when you are sending a photo somewhere public, and a problem when you are archiving. If the date matters, write it down before you convert. Check a photo’s date first
Why do iPhones use HEIC anyway?
Because it is genuinely a better format. HEIC stores the same picture in roughly half the space of a JPEG, which is why Apple made it the default back in 2017 and why your camera roll fits on your phone at all. The catch is everything outside Apple: older Windows machines, plenty of web uploaders, school portals, print shops, and grandparents’ email clients still cannot open one. So the photos are fine, and the rest of the world is behind — which is why this page exists.
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