Convert HEIC to WebP for photos that stay small on the web while keeping any transparency. WebP works in about 97% of the browsers people use today. Part of the image converter.
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JPEG · PNG · WEBP · AVIF · HEIC · up to 50 at once · max 30 MB each
A real result from this exact operation: 343 KB in, 211.4 KB out. Drop your own file and the meter reports yours. The left half is a preview render; the byte counts are the real files’.
HEIC to WebP converter
How to convert HEIC to WebP in 4 steps
Free, in your browser, with no sign-up. Each step below is the real tool on this page.
1
Drop your HEIC files
Up to 10 HEIC files at once. WebP is already picked.
2
Set a size, or not
Auto picks the best WebP setting. A size cap is never exceeded.
3
Compare the result
See each measured size, then drag the slider to check the look.
4
Download one ZIP
Take each file on its own, or all of them together in one ZIP.
Free, no sign-up
The best HEIC to WebP image converter for real photos
Up to 10 HEIC files at once, every result measured to the byte, and nothing kept after you leave.
Fast and easy
A fast, easy HEIC to WebP converter
WebP turns an iPhone photo into a small file every browser shows. This photo went from a 266.4 KB HEIC to a 106.7 KB WebP, 60% smaller.
Why this converter
A HEIC to WebP converter that shows its work
Every size on this page is a file the engine wrote, measured to the byte.
Batch
Batch convert HEIC to WebP, ten at a time
Convert up to 10 HEIC files to WebP in one run. Each file shows its own measured size, so you see what changed.
Quality
HEIC to WebP converter with no change you can see
This photo went from a 287.2 KB HEIC to a 140.1 KB WebP. Check any file at full size before you keep it.
Exact size
Convert HEIC to WebP under 100 KB
Set a maximum size and the converter finds the best quality that fits. A hard cap: at or under it, never over.
Because HEIC is a great camera format and a useless web format. It decodes in roughly a fifth of browsers (Safari, in practice), so an iPhone photo dropped into a website shows a broken image for most visitors. WebP renders in about 97% of browsers, keeps transparency, and lands smaller than the HEIC: 211.4 KB from a 343 KB original here. It is the middle rung of the web's fallback chain, between AVIF (smaller, 95% support) and JPG (everywhere).
HEIC to WebP, measured: the quality points and the alternatives
Reference file343 KBphoto.heic
Output
Relative to source
Size
vs the HEIC
WebP, AutoOur default
211.4 KB
−38%
WebP, quality 70
201.7 KB
−41%
WebP, quality 80
253 KB
−26%
WebP, quality 90
397.7 KB
−-16%
AVIF, Auto (for comparison)Other format
121.9 KB
−64%
JPG, Auto (for comparison)Other format
267.4 KB
−22%
Source: photo.heic, 343 KB, 1920×1280, our reference photo of an iguana on a branch, saved as HEIC on a Mac. Every row is the file the engine wrote from that one HEIC.
Every byte count is the size of the actual file our engine produced from the named source, the same bytes you would download, not an estimate. The reference photo is one of our own photographs, an iguana on a branch, and the camera photo is a real one too. Drop your own file into the tool above to rerun any of them. How we measure names the sources and the settings.
The quality-80 knee: where WebP stops paying
WebP's quality scale has a knee near 80. Below it the file shrinks fast and the picture holds; above it the bytes climb and the picture does not visibly improve. Measured on our reference HEIC: quality 70 is 201.7 KB, quality 80 is 253 KB, quality 90 is 397.7 KB. That last step costs 57% more bytes for a difference you would need a loupe to find. Auto stays near the knee per image, and the compare slider is there so your eyes make the call.
Using the WebP on a website: the fallback chain
Wrap the image in a <picture> element: an AVIF source first, the WebP second, a JPG in the final <img>. Each browser picks the first format it supports, so the 95% get AVIF, the next 2% get WebP and nobody gets a broken image. Convert the same batch with HEIC to AVIF for the top rung and HEIC to JPG for the last one; the filenames stay the same across all three.
The GPS in your iPhone photos, and what happens to it
Every iPhone photo carries the place it was taken, the time and the phone model in its EXIF block, and a WebP on a website would carry them too. We strip that block from every output by default; the EXIF remover shows exactly what goes. The files themselves are wiped automatically after the conversion.
When WebP is the wrong target
Uploading to a form, portal or marketplace?
Most accept only JPG or PNG. Convert to JPG, with a size cap if the form states one.
Emailing or printing?
Email clients and print pipelines lag browsers by years. JPG remains the safe interchange format there.
Chasing the smallest file for a site you control?
AVIF is smaller (121.9 KB against 211.4 KB here) and 95% of browsers render it. Serve AVIF first and this WebP as the fallback.
Questions, answered
Short answers specific to this page. The tool above settles most of them in a second.
Q:How do I convert HEIC to WebP?
Drop the .heic files into the tool at the top, keep WebP as the output and download. It works in the browser on a PC, a Mac or the iPhone itself, no software and no account, up to 10 photos a batch at 30 MB each.
Q:Is WebP smaller than HEIC?
Yes, at Auto on both our HEICs. Our reference photo, saved as HEIC on a Mac, went from 343 KB to a 211.4 KB WebP, −38%. A real iPhone 12 Pro photo went from 1956 KB to 748.5 KB. The bigger difference: WebP opens in 97% of browsers and HEIC in about a fifth.
Q:Why convert HEIC to WebP instead of JPG?
For a website: WebP keeps transparency, every current browser renders it, and it came out smaller on both our HEICs. A real iPhone 12 Pro photo measured 748.5 KB as WebP and 940.7 KB as JPG at Auto; our reference HEIC, 211.4 KB against 267.4 KB. For a form, an email or a print shop, choose JPG: it opens everywhere.
Q:Which WebP quality should I use for an iPhone photo?
80 is the knee. Measured: quality 70 gave 201.7 KB, quality 80 gave 253 KB, quality 90 gave 397.7 KB, 57% more than 80 for a difference you would need a loupe to find. Auto lands near the knee per photo; the compare slider shows your own file at 100% zoom.
Q:Does converting HEIC to WebP lose quality?
Both formats are lossy, so a re-encode always costs something in theory. At Auto quality the difference is invisible at normal viewing size. What no converter can do is restore the detail HEIC already discarded when the iPhone saved the photo.
Q:Should I convert to WebP or to AVIF?
AVIF is smaller (121.9 KB against 211.4 KB on our reference photo) and renders in about 95% of browsers; WebP in 97%. Choose AVIF for a site you control with a fallback, WebP when a CMS or a marketplace rejects AVIF uploads. The HEIC to AVIF page is the same converter.
Q:Does WebP keep transparency from a HEIC?
Yes. WebP carries an alpha channel, so a sticker or a cutout saved as HEIC with transparency converts intact. An iPhone camera photo has no transparency to keep and comes out on its solid background.
Q:Can I convert HEIC to WebP on the iPhone itself?
Yes. Open this page in Safari, pick the photos from the library and download the ZIP or single files to Files. Nothing installs. To stop new photos arriving as HEIC, set Camera → Formats to Most Compatible, which saves JPG instead.
Q:Can I keep the WebP under a size limit?
Yes. Set Max file size in Advanced settings and the encoder searches for the highest quality that fits under the cap; it never overshoots. A 100 KB cap leaves an iPhone photo looking untouched as WebP.
Q:Can I convert many HEIC files to WebP at once?
Yes. Up to 10 files a batch, 30 MB each, one ZIP with the filenames kept, no signup and a 300-image daily allowance. A camera-roll dump is what the batch is for.
Q:Does the WebP keep the photo's EXIF and GPS data?
No. The converted WebP carries no camera model, capture time or GPS location, which is what you want for a photo going onto a website. The engine reads a HEIC as pixels only, so even "Keep EXIF metadata" keeps nothing from it. Keep the original HEIC if you need the dates.
Q:Is it safe to upload my iPhone photos to this WebP converter?
Yes. We keep nothing: files are processed and wiped automatically, never archived, never shared, never used to train anything. No account is needed, and the GPS location in your photos is stripped from every output by default.
