Convert HEIC to AVIF.
iPhone HEIC to web-ready AVIF — converted on your device.
Drop HEIC files here
or browse your files
Paste with ⌘V · or drop files anywhere on the page
Files never leave your device. Everything runs in your browser, nothing touches a server — tools you've used even work offline.
Convert iPhone HEIC photos to AVIF entirely in your browser — decoded and re-encoded on your device, never uploaded. HEIC and AVIF are equally modern, but only one of them works on the web: AVIF displays in every current browser, while HEIC stays locked to Apple software. Batch a whole album and download the ZIP.
How it works
- Drop files anywhere on the page, click to browse, or paste with ⌘V.
- Pick a quality or preset — or set an exact target size and let the tool find it.
- Compress, compare before/after, and download — individually or as a ZIP.
Two modern formats, one web-ready
Both formats compress photos far tighter than JPG — that part is a tie. The difference is reach: browsers never adopted HEIC, so an iPhone photo cannot be embedded on a website as-is, while AVIF can, at essentially the same size. For older apps and upload forms, HEIC to JPG remains the safe exit; for anything headed to the web, AVIF is the better one, and Compress HEIC covers the keep-it-HEIC case.
Metadata is stripped
The AVIF is written clean: EXIF, GPS location and camera details do not carry over. For photos headed to the public web that is the safer default — location data in particular has no business on a website. Rotation is applied during decode, so photos come out upright.
Frequently asked questions
Why AVIF instead of JPG?
Size at quality: AVIF stores the same photo in roughly half the bytes of an equivalent JPG. Choose JPG only when the file must open in older software — every current browser displays AVIF fine.
Does GPS location stay in the photo?
No — AVIF output is written without EXIF or GPS metadata. What your camera recorded stays on your device, in the original HEIC.
What can open the AVIF afterwards?
Browsers universally — Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari from 16.1. Older desktop viewers and some upload forms may refuse it; convert those photos to JPG instead.
Is it private?
Yes. The conversion happens entirely on your device — the image is read, re-encoded and saved without ever touching a network. There is no server-side queue, no temporary copy in some bucket, nothing to expire or leak. Want proof? Run one file through, switch your connection off, and run another — it still works.