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HEIC to PDF, free, in your browser

iPhone photos into a PDF, decoded on your device: the HEIC decoder runs in your browser tab, so the photos are never uploaded. One page per photo, in your order, the right way up.

HEIC · HEIF · JPG · PNG · any number · any size

✓ no upload✓ decoded on your device✓ any number✓ works offline after the first use

How HEIC to PDF works here

  1. Drop the photos. HEIC or HEIF from an iPhone, any number, mixed with other pictures if you like. Put them in order with Up and Down.
  2. The decoder loads once. HEIC is a format browsers other than Safari cannot read, so this site brings its own decoder: 2 MB, fetched from this site the first time you need it and kept by the browser. It runs in your tab, like everything here.
  3. Download. Each photo is decoded on your device and written into the PDF as a JPEG at quality 90. The result is checked by re-opening it.

What it does

  • Reads HEIC and HEIF photos from iPhone, iPad and recent cameras.
  • Applies the rotation and mirroring stored in the photo.
  • Writes each photo as a JPEG at quality 90, which looks the same and is about a fifth of a lossless copy.
  • Takes JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, TIFF, GIF and BMP in the same drop.

What it does not do

  • It does not keep the HEIC bytes: PDF has no HEIC, so the photo is decoded and re-encoded once.
  • Live Photos, bursts and HDR gain maps come out as the still photo only.
  • A HEIC that uses a codec the decoder does not have (AV1 in a .heif, say) is refused with a sentence; sharing it from the iPhone as JPEG always works.

Questions

Why can my browser not open HEIC itself?

Only Safari ships the HEVC codec HEIC uses. This site includes an open-source decoder (libheif) as a separate file, fetched the first time a HEIC arrives and kept by your browser afterwards.

Does the photo lose quality?

The HEIC is already a lossy photo. It is decoded once and written as a JPEG at quality 90, which is visually the same picture. Nothing is scaled down.

Is the photo the right way up?

Yes. The decoder applies the rotation the iPhone stored, so a portrait photo is a portrait page.

Can I turn the iPhone's HEIC off instead?

Yes: Settings, Camera, Formats, Most Compatible. New photos are then JPEG. This page is for the ones you already have.

Do my photos leave my phone or computer?

No. Everything runs in your browser tab. The only network requests are the site's own files, including the decoder.

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