Convert HEIC to WEBP — Free, Private, In Your Browser
Publishing iPhone photos to a website or blog? WEBP keeps them light and displays in every current browser, something HEIC itself cannot claim.
- 100% Private
- No Upload
- Free Forever
Drop your HEIC here or click to upload
Only HEIC files accepted on this page.
Converting to WEBP…
This is happening on your device — no upload.
How this HEIC to WEBP conversion works
The page loads a libheif-based decoder once, decodes the iPhone photo in your browser and saves it as WEBP at quality 0.92. EXIF metadata, including the GPS position, is not written to the new file. Your photo never leaves the device you are using.
Example: HEIC to WEBP in practice
You are writing a travel blog post from photos taken on your iPhone. Convert them to WEBP, ideally after resizing them to the width your blog displays, and upload those. The GPS locations stay out of the published files, which matters if any photos were taken at or near your home. Keep the originals in your photo library.
Before you use the new WEBP from your HEIC
- Check the WEBP size before uploading; resizing to your site's display width saves even more.
- Preview the photo on your site in both Chrome and Safari.
- Give the file a descriptive name before uploading; iPhone names such as IMG_4821 tell visitors and search engines nothing.
- Keep the original HEIC if you want the location history for yourself.
Why convert HEIC to WEBP?
HEIC is efficient, but Chrome, Edge and Firefox will not display it, so an iPhone photo cannot go straight onto a web page. Converting to JPG works and is what most people do, but it gives away much of HEIC's size advantage. WEBP is the better fit for web use: it shows in all current major browsers and, on our test photo, came out about 30% lighter than the JPG at the same quality setting. There is a privacy bonus, too. iPhone photos usually carry the GPS location where they were taken, and this conversion does not copy that data into the WEBP.
When HEIC to WEBP is the right call
- Publishing iPhone photos on a website, blog or online store
- Keeping page weight down when a post includes many photos
- Removing location data from photos before they go public
- Feeding a CMS that accepts WEBP but not HEIC
HEIC vs WEBP: what changes
| Feature | HEIC | WEBP | In practice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Browsers | Safari only | All current | WEBP shows in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari (caniuse.com/webp); HEIC shows only in Safari on Apple devices. |
| Compression | Lossy (HEVC) | Lossy | One decode and one re-encode at 0.92, a light second round of compression. |
| Colour & HDR | Wide-gamut, 10-bit | 8-bit only | WEBP has no HDR or wide-gamut mode, so bright, vivid iPhone shots are shown in standard colour. |
| GPS & camera data | Kept | Not copied | The location, date and camera details stored by the iPhone are not written into the WEBP. |
| CMS | Rarely accepted | Widely accepted | WordPress has accepted WEBP since version 5.8; HEIC uploads are usually refused or converted. |
| Email & forms | Almost never | Patchy | For attachments and application forms use HEIC to JPG instead. |
Browser support: caniuse.com/webp
HEIC to WEBP file size: our test
We could not encode a HEIC test file, so no HEIC size is shown. The useful comparison for web publishing is WEBP against the other outputs, measured on our test images at this tool's settings.
| Test image and output | HEIC in | Size out | Versus JPG |
|---|---|---|---|
| 640×720 photo, WEBP at 0.92 (this page) | Not measured | 33.5 KB | 31% lighter |
| 640×720 photo, JPG at 0.92 | Not measured | 48.2 KB | Baseline |
| 560×720 text graphic, WEBP at 0.92 | Not measured | 30.7 KB | 36% lighter than its 47.9 KB JPG |
For pictures that live on a web page, WEBP came out roughly a third lighter than JPG on both test images. The WEBP will still usually be larger than the original HEIC, but unlike HEIC it can actually be displayed by your visitors' browsers.
When not to convert HEIC to WEBP
- Sending photos to people, attaching them to email, or uploading to forms. Use HEIC to JPG for those.
- Printing. Labs and kiosks expect JPG.
- When your website already converts uploads to WEBP automatically. Many CMS plugins and CDNs do; uploading a JPG and letting them convert avoids compressing twice.
- When you want to keep the location data, for example in a travel archive. Keep the original HEIC files for that.
HEIC to WEBP FAQ
Why not just use JPG?
JPG is the right choice for sharing, forms and printing. For images on a web page, WEBP is lighter: in our test the same photo was 33.5 KB as WEBP and 48.2 KB as JPG at the same quality setting.
Will WEBP work everywhere?
In all current major browsers, yes. Outside a browser support is patchier, so convert to JPG instead if the photo is going into an email, a form or a print job.
Does converting remove the location from my iPhone photo?
Yes. The conversion redraws the photo in your browser and does not copy EXIF metadata, so GPS coordinates, capture date and camera details are not in the WEBP. Your original HEIC still contains them.