HEIC to JPG
iPhones save photos as HEIC, and most of the rest of the world cannot open them. Convert a whole camera roll to JPG here — without handing your photos to a website.
How to heic to jpg
- Drop in your
.heicfiles. You can select an entire folder from your phone's export. - Choose JPG for photographs — it is what everything supports — or PNG if you need lossless output.
- Set the quality. 90% is visually identical to the original for almost any photo.
- Press Convert, then take the zip.
Why this one is different
Almost every free file tool works the same way: you upload your file to a company's server, their machine does the work, and you download the result. That means a copy of your document sat on someone else's hard drive, governed by a privacy policy you did not read.
Filebench does the work in the browser tab you are already looking at. There is no upload step because there is no server to upload to. The practical consequences: no file size limit, no queue, no account, no watermark, and it keeps working if your connection drops after the page loads.
| Filebench | Typical online converter | |
|---|---|---|
| Your file leaves your device | Never | Every time |
| File size limit | None | Often 10–100 MB free |
| Sign-up required | No | Usually, past a few files |
| Watermark on output | No | Sometimes |
| Works offline after loading | Yes | No |
Questions
Why are my iPhone photos HEIC in the first place?
Apple switched to HEIC in iOS 11 because it stores roughly the same quality in about half the space of JPG. The trade-off is compatibility — Windows, many websites and a lot of older software still cannot read it.
Can I stop my iPhone saving HEIC?
Yes. Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible makes the camera shoot JPG instead. You lose the space saving but avoid the problem entirely for future photos.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. The HEIC decoder runs as JavaScript in your browser. This matters more here than for most formats — a camera roll is about as personal as files get, and every other HEIC converter asks you to upload them.
Will I lose quality?
Converting to JPG re-compresses the image, so technically yes, though at 90% quality it is not visible. Converting to PNG is lossless but produces much larger files. Keep your HEIC originals either way.
Why is it slower than the other converters?
HEIC uses HEVC compression, which browsers do not decode natively for still images, so the work is done by a JavaScript decoder rather than by your graphics hardware. Expect a few seconds per photo — a 0.7 MB image takes around four seconds on an ordinary laptop, and a 12-megapixel iPhone photo longer. A large camera roll is worth starting and leaving alone.
Other tools
Convert images
Swap between PNG, JPG and WEBP in bulk. Choose a background colour when converting transparent images to JPG.
Compress images
Cut image weight with a quality slider and an optional size cap. Each result shows the percentage saved.
Resize images
Resize by width, height, exact dimensions or percentage — in bulk, with the aspect ratio kept.