HEIC to WebP Converter

Turn iPhone photos into small, modern WebP images ready for the web. Free in your browser — no sign-up, no watermarks.

Drop your HEIC files here

or click to browse — Select multiple files for batch conversion

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⚡ Instant — conversion starts the moment you add files. No sign-up, no watermarks. Why FileHugger

🔍 How your file is processed

Runs: In your browser on this page
Engine: Your browser's own image decoder and canvas encoders (AVIF included); HEIC decodes via a bundled JavaScript decoder (Emscripten-compiled libheif); GIF, BMP and ICO are written by our own encoders
Max input: 512 MB per file
Your file: Processed in this browser tab — the file is not uploaded. Converted results are kept in this browser's local storage for up to two hours so their matching download page can show them; expired results are removed on the next site visit. Nothing is stored on our servers.
Good to know: Converting to JPG or lossy WebP applies the quality level you choose. JPG and BMP have no transparency, and our GIF encoder does not carry transparency either — transparent areas are flattened to the background for all three. Animated GIF input is read as its first frame.

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How to convert HEIC to WebP

Click Choose files (or drag & drop) and select one or more HEIC files. You can also paste an image from your clipboard.
Adjust the quality slider if you want smaller files or maximum fidelity (92% is a good default).
Press Convert to WebP. Each file is converted with a live progress indicator.
Open the download page to save your files individually or grab everything as a single ZIP.

Why convert HEIC to WebP?

If the destination is a website, WebP gives you the best of both worlds: files nearly as small as the original HEIC, but in a format every browser can display. Ideal for bloggers and shop owners publishing iPhone product photos without slowing their pages down.

What this tool preserves — and what it changes

✓ Preserved

The photo at the quality you set — the slider (50–100%, default 92%) is the only lossy step added after the HEIC is decoded
Decoding happens in the tab with the bundled libheif decoder — the photo is never uploaded

↺ Changed

The image is re-encoded by the browser's own WebP encoder, so one lossy generation is added on top of HEIC's
EXIF metadata (location, camera) does not survive the canvas re-encode

Known limits & edge cases

Browsers that cannot encode WebP are refused with a message naming the problem — never a silently mislabeled file
A multi-image HEIC (burst or sequence) comes out as one WebP still — the first image in the container

Engine: Your browser's own image decoder and canvas encoders (AVIF included); HEIC decodes via a bundled JavaScript decoder (Emscripten-compiled libheif); GIF, BMP and ICO are written by our own encoders. These statements describe the engine as shipped on 2026-10-02 — behaviour changes are recorded in the changelog. Measured data: Which image format for which content — measured on four content types.

About the formats

What is a HEIC file?

HEIC is the default photo format on iPhone and iPad. It stores photos at about half the size of JPG at the same quality, but Windows, Android, many websites and most upload forms cannot open it. That is why "HEIC to JPG" is one of the most searched conversions in the world: it makes iPhone photos usable everywhere.

What is a WebP file?

WebP is a modern image format developed by Google that compresses roughly 25–35% smaller than JPG at the same visual quality, and also supports transparency and animation. It is the default download format on many websites today. All current browsers display WebP, but some older apps, photo editors and printing services still reject it — which is the most common reason to convert it.

HEIC vs WebP at a glance

	HEIC	WebP
Type	Raster image	Raster image
Compression	Lossy (HEVC-based)	Lossy or lossless
Transparency	Yes	Yes
Animation	Yes (sequences)	Yes
Typical use	iPhone and iPad photos	Web images, downloads from websites

From camera roll to web page, without the bloat

Publishing iPhone photos on a website is the one case where JPG is not the obvious answer. WebP compresses photographic images 25–35% smaller than a JPG of comparable visual quality, and every current browser — Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge — renders it natively. For a photo-heavy page, that difference is the gap between a sluggish and a snappy load, and page speed feeds directly into Core Web Vitals.

This converter decodes each HEIC in your batch and re-encodes it as WebP with an adjustable quality slider — the default is a strong balance, drop it a few points for thumbnails and galleries where small files matter more than pixel-level fidelity. One caution: if the images must also be opened in older desktop software (or emailed to unknown recipients), keep a JPG copy too; WebP’s home turf is the browser.

Frequently asked questions

Is this HEIC to WebP converter free?

Yes — completely free, with no sign-up, no watermarks and no daily quota. Processing happens in this browser, so the practical limit is the memory available on your device.

Can I convert multiple HEIC files at once?

Yes. Select or drop as many files as you like — each one is converted in sequence with its own progress status, and you can download the results individually or all together as a ZIP archive.

Will I lose quality converting HEIC to WebP?

WebP uses lossy compression, so there is a quality/size trade-off you control with the quality slider. At the default 92% the difference is practically invisible while files stay small. For archival-grade copies choose PNG instead.

Why can’t Windows open HEIC files?

HEIC uses HEVC compression, which requires licensed codecs that Windows does not ship by default. Rather than buying codec packs for every PC, converting the photos to JPG or PNG once makes them readable everywhere, forever.