HEIC to PDF converter

How to convert HEIC to PDF

1. Add your photos. Drag HEIC files onto the box above, or tap Choose files. Add them in the order you want the pages.
2. Pick the page. Same as the image makes each page the size of its photo; A4 or US Letter fits it on a sheet with a margin.
3. Download. Each row offers a PDF of that photo; Download all in one PDF puts every photo in a single file.

Files in another format are listed with a short reason and a link to the right converter, and the rest of the batch carries on.

What is a HEIC file?

HEIC is the format iPhones have used for photos since iOS 11 in 2017. The name stands for High Efficiency Image Container: it is a HEIF image whose picture is compressed with HEVC, the codec iPhones also use for video. A HEIC photo looks the same as a JPEG but takes noticeably less space; Apple lists about 3 MB for a 24 MP photo in HEIF and 4.8 MB in JPEG.

Apple devices open HEIC everywhere, but plenty of websites, older Windows PCs, printing services and online forms still expect JPG, PNG or PDF.

What this converter does with your HEIC

A PDF cannot hold HEVC-compressed pictures, so each HEIC photo is decoded in your browser by libheif, an open-source decoder compiled to WebAssembly, and written into the PDF as a JPEG at 92% quality, the setting most people cannot tell apart from the original. The decoder downloads only when you add the first photo, and the decoding happens in a background thread so the page stays responsive.

Why convert HEIC to PDF?

Because a form wants a document. Receipts for an expense claim, a photographed contract, ID documents for an application, homework or a damage report are HEIC on an iPhone, and the portal accepts PDF only, or one file only. A PDF opens on any computer, including Windows PCs without the HEIF extensions, prints on standard paper and keeps several photos together in order.

What the PDF keeps, and what it leaves out

• Kept: the full picture at its original resolution, the right way up.
• Left out: the date taken, location and camera details. Live Photos contribute the still only. HDR photos look as they do on a non-HDR screen.
• Quality: the JPEG inside the PDF is written at 92%; expect it to be about a third to a half larger than the HEIC.

Other ways to convert HEIC to PDF

Your photos stay on your device

When you add a photo, your browser downloads the HEIC decoder and does all the work itself: the photos are read from your disk, decoded in memory and written into a PDF saved to your downloads folder. No server ever receives your files, and nothing is kept once you close the page. It is the same promise we make in our iPhone app, PrunePic: it reviews your photos on the iPhone itself and never uploads them.

Need JPG or PNG instead?

The HEIC to JPG converter and the HEIC to PNG converter use the same decoder. And if the reason you are exporting is a full iPhone, the guide to freeing up iPhone storage comes first.