Convert HEIC to WebP
How to convert HEIC to WebP: add your HEIC photo to the dropzone on this page and click Convert to WebP. Conversion runs as WebAssembly inside the browser tab, so the photo never leaves your computer.
Drop your HEIC here
It becomes a WebP right in your browser, up to 100 MB
Your file never leaves your device
Why convert HEIC to WebP?
This pair bridges the iPhone camera and the web: browsers cannot display HEIC at all, while WebP is rendered by all of them and stays close to HEIC's compact size. Bloggers, shop owners and developers pulling product or hero shots from a phone get web-ready images in one local step, without the size penalty of converting through JPG or PNG first. Compared to publishing JPGs, the WebP versions trim page weight; compared to PNG, they are dramatically lighter. The result slots straight into a CMS or static site.
What is HEIC?
HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) is the HEIF container holding HEVC-compressed images, and it has been the default camera format on iPhone since iOS 11 in 2017. It stores photos at roughly half the size of an equivalent JPG and can carry bursts, depth maps and Live Photo stills. Outside the Apple ecosystem support is poor: Windows often demands a paid codec extension and no browser will display a .heic file.
What is WebP?
WebP is an image format Google released in 2010, built on VP8 video coding. It offers both lossy and lossless modes, supports transparency in both, can hold animation, and typically lands 25-35% smaller than a comparable JPG. Every modern browser has rendered it since Safari 14 arrived in 2020, but plenty of desktop software, older CMS upload forms and printing services still refuse it.
Quality and what to expect
Both codecs are lossy, so this transcode adds a small second generation of loss on top of what the iPhone camera already applied; at the default quality used here it is rarely visible in web-sized photos. Output size usually lands in the same neighborhood as the source HEIC, sometimes a little larger, since HEVC compresses slightly harder than VP8-era WebP. Orientation metadata is applied so the photo displays correctly. EXIF, including location, is stripped rather than forwarded, which suits images headed for a public site.
HEIC to WebP FAQ
Why not just upload the HEIC to my website directly?
No browser will render it. Visitors would download a broken image. The web-native formats are JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF, and of those WebP offers the best blend of size and compatibility for photos today.
Will the WebP be smaller than my HEIC?
Often roughly the same or slightly larger, because HEVC is the marginally stronger codec. The point of this conversion is browser compatibility, with size staying in the efficient modern range rather than ballooning.
Is this suitable for client or commercial photos?
Particularly so. Pre-release product shots and client work convert without being uploaded to any third-party service, so no confidentiality is leaked to a converter site. The processing stays on the machine you are using.
Does the converted image keep the photo location?
No. The GPS EXIF your iPhone wrote is consumed during decoding and never written to the WebP, so publishing the output does not expose where it was shot.