Image Converter

HEIC to WebP converter

Turn iPhone photos into web-ready WebP files that stay small. Everything happens on your device.

Your images never leave your device.

How to convert HEIC to WebP

  1. Drop your .HEIC photos onto the box above.
  2. The output is already set to WebP.
  3. Pick a quality level — 90% is a safe default for photographs.
  4. Download the results, or take the whole batch as a ZIP.

The best route for photos headed to a website

If an iPhone photo is going onto a website, WebP is almost always the right target. It is the one conversion out of a HEIC that does not cost you file size: in our testing a 2.8 MB HEIC became a 2.6 MB WebP, while the same photo as JPG came out at 3.1 MB.

So you get a file every browser can display, at a size comparable to the original, without the compatibility headaches of HEIC itself.

This is the conversion to reach for when you are publishing photos — to a blog, a webshop listing, a portfolio or a property page.

HEIC and WebP, side by side

Both are modern formats built on video-codec technology, and both compress much better than JPEG. The difference is reach: HEIC is an Apple-ecosystem format that many browsers and applications refuse outright, while WebP is supported by every current browser on every platform.

HEIC is the better format for storage on the device that made it. WebP is the better format for anything you intend to share or publish.

Common questions

Is WebP smaller than the original HEIC?
Usually about the same, sometimes slightly smaller. In our testing a 2.8 MB HEIC became a 2.6 MB WebP at 90% quality. Compare that with JPG, which grew the same photo to 3.1 MB.
Are my photos sent to a server?
No. Decoding and encoding both happen in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, so the GPS coordinates and faces in your photos stay on your device.
Can I put WebP straight onto my website?
Yes. Every current browser displays WebP, and WordPress, Shopify and every modern framework accept it without configuration.
How long does a photo take?
A 12-megapixel iPhone photo takes a few seconds on a desktop machine, longer on a phone. HEIC decoding is genuinely heavy work, and it runs in the background so the page stays usable while it happens.

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