HEIC to JPG

How to use it

1. Press "Choose pictures" or drop them here. Pick several at once if you like.
2. Adjust the background colour or quality if you want to (the defaults are fine).
3. Press "Convert and save". The JPG file goes to your downloads; several pictures come as one zip.

Your pictures never leave your device

This tool opens the pictures from your device, works on them in your browser's memory and saves new files straight back to your device. Nothing is uploaded to freesabai's servers or anyone else's, and no picture or file name is kept: close the page and it is all gone. The site only counts how many times this page is opened and how many times a result is saved, never a file name, size or content, and you can switch the counting off at the bottom of the page (see the privacy policy). The HEIC reader is libheif (licence LGPL-3.0), kept as a file of its own, unmodified. Details and where the code comes from are in the library's notice file, /assets/tools/image/heic/README.txt.

Good to know

• HEIC is the format an iPhone saves photos in. It is smaller than JPG, but Windows, Android and many programs cannot open it. JPG opens everywhere. (To make the iPhone take JPG from the start, go to Settings > Camera > Formats > Most Compatible.)
• The JPG you get has no EXIF, so the place it was taken, the camera and the date do not go with it: converting first is a good way to share safely. The way up is right: a portrait photo stays upright.
• If your browser can open HEIC itself (Safari on iPhone and Mac) it uses that. If not (Chrome, Edge, Firefox on Windows and Android), this page uses a HEIC reader that comes with the page, about 2 MB (about 0.7 MB on the wire), loaded once when you open the page, not from anywhere else, and it works with the internet off.
• HDR or wide-colour (Display P3) photos from newer iPhones become ordinary sRGB JPG: colours may shift slightly and the HDR part is not kept. A Live Photo gives only its still picture. A file with several pictures gives the main one.
• Very large pictures (such as 48 million pixels from a 48MP camera) need a lot of memory. On a phone this page refuses ones over about 24 million pixels and suggests a computer. A picture bigger than the device can hold is brought down while it is converted.
• An animated GIF or WebP becomes a still picture, its first frame only.
• A picture with a wide colour profile (such as Display P3) is converted to sRGB and the profile is not kept, so colours may shift slightly.
• A very large picture on a phone (over about 16 million pixels) is brought down to what the device can hold as it is opened. For the full original size, use a computer.

Report a problem or suggest an idea

Found a problem, or want this tool to do more? Tell us on the feedback page. No sign-up needed.