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Convert HEIF to JPG

Make a JPG copy of a .heif photo that opens on Windows, in editors and on any website, without uploading it.

Convert .heif and .heic photos to JPG in your browser, one file or a whole folder, with the quality you choose. It is free, needs no account and adds no watermark, and your files are not uploaded: everything runs in your browser on your device. The size limit is your device’s memory, and phones hold less; give the page a short while after one visit to save itself for offline use, and then it works offline.

Drop HEIF files hereor click to choose files. Batches welcome.

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    Your files are processed on this device and never sent to a server. Reload the page to clear everything from memory.

    HEIF is the container format, and HEIC is the version Apple’s phones write, so a file ending in .heif and one ending in .heic hold the same kind of photo. You meet the .heif name in a folder exported from a Mac, on Android phones that shoot in HEIF and on camera cards. Windows shows a blank thumbnail for them until Microsoft’s HEIF image extension is installed, and most websites refuse to take them.

    Drop the files here and each one is decoded by libheif, compiled to WebAssembly and running in this tab, then saved as a JPG at the same pixel size. The quality slider starts at 90. The date, camera and location are left out unless you tick Keep EXIF metadata, so a JPG you are about to post does not carry where it was taken.

    Expect a JPG about twice the size of the HEIF, because HEIF stores the same picture in roughly half the space. A 2 MB photo of 4032 × 3024 pixels typically comes out near 4 MB. If the JPG has to be small for a form or an email, lower the quality here, or run it through Compress image afterwards and give it a file size.

    How it works

    1. Drop your HEIF files onto the page, or tap to pick them. Batches are fine.
    2. Adjust the quality slider if you want a smaller file, or leave it at 90.
    3. Download each JPG, or all of them as one zip.

    In your browser, not on a server

    Stayput first reads the opening bytes of each file, where every image format writes its signature, so it knows what the file really is whatever it is called. Your browser decodes JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, AVIF and SVG itself; TIFF goes through UTIF.js, HEIC through the libheif WebAssembly decoder, and JPEG XL (or AVIF, in a browser without native support) through the Squoosh decoders, all served from this site and cached. The browser re-encodes JPG, PNG and WebP; PDF, ICO, GIF, BMP and TIFF files are written by small encoders in the page. Nothing here needs a server.

    Compared with upload-based tools: Online converters upload your image, convert it on their machine, keep it for hours and cap you at a few files a day. This does the same conversion on your device, for as many files as your device’s memory can hold, with no upload to wait for.

    Verify it yourself. Give the page a short while after one visit to save itself for offline use, then turn off Wi-Fi or switch to airplane mode and run the tool again. Or open your browser's developer tools (F12, or Cmd-Option-I on a Mac), pick the Network tab, and watch it while you convert. The panel above does the same count for you.

    Questions

    Why does my HEIF file show no thumbnail on Windows?

    Windows needs Microsoft’s HEIF image extension to read the format, so Explorer and Photos show a blank tile or an error. A JPG made here opens in Photos, Paint and every browser without installing anything.

    Is a JPG from a HEIF as sharp as the original?

    Both are lossy, and at quality 90 the difference is hard to see on a screen. Each lossy save adds a little loss of its own, so convert once from the original HEIF and keep the HEIF if you may edit the photo again.

    How many photos can I convert at once?

    Drop a whole folder. They are converted one after another and download as one zip, limited by your device’s memory. A very large batch on a phone is better split into a few groups.

    Does the JPG keep where the photo was taken?

    Not unless you choose JPG and tick Keep EXIF metadata. Left unticked, the location, date and camera details stay behind in the HEIF, which is what you want before sharing a picture online.

    Can I convert a .hif file from a camera?

    Some cameras write the same format with a .hif extension. This page’s file picker lists .heif and .heic. If yours is greyed out, copy the file and rename the copy to .heif before dropping it.

    Does my camera roll leave my computer?

    No. The photos are read from your disk, decoded and written back to your disk by code running in this tab. There is no server in the process, so an album of family photos is never copied anywhere.

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