HEIC +Converter
Half the size of a JPEG, and completely invisible to Windows — that is what HEIC does to a phone full of photos. HEIC +Converter turns them into files every app can open: eight output formats, a whole folder in one drop, and a built-in viewer that reads HEIC without converting it first.
Why you need HEIC +Converter
You take a hundred photos on your phone, plug it into a Windows PC — and half the thumbnails are blank. No preview, no dimensions, no photo app will open them. The photos are fine; Windows simply has no decoder for HEIC.
Your iPhone has written HEIC by default since iOS 11 for a good reason: the same visual quality at roughly half the size of a JPEG. That is exactly why nothing else opens it. HEIC +Converter is the missing link — add the photos, pick a format, press one button, and out comes a file every app can open. Your originals are never touched.
One photo, eight ways out
One setting applies to the whole batch: .jpeg or .jpg for sharing, .png and .tiff for lossless archival, and .bmp, .gif, .svg, .xpm for the legacy tool that insists.
Convert
HEIC in, eight formats out. No codec pack to install first.
Queue
Every photo becomes a row with size, capture time and status.
View
A viewer that decodes HEIC directly — zoom, pan, rotate, copy.
Inspect
Read every EXIF / GPS tag, then keep or drop it in the copy.
Compared with other converters
One photo, once? Anything will do. The difference shows the second time you have a whole folder to get through.
| Many free HEIC converters | HEIC +Converter | |
|---|---|---|
| Output formats | One, sometimes two | Eight, switchable for the whole batch |
| A folder of photos | One file per trip through the dialog | The whole folder in a single drop |
| Your photos | Uploaded to a website | Never leave your PC |
| Looking at a photo | Convert first, look afterwards | Built-in viewer that reads HEIC directly |
The window at a glance
Everything happens in a single window, split into three horizontal bands: the red drop zone on top, the file list in the middle, and the settings strip with the Convert button at the bottom.
The three bands never move: drop on top, review in the middle, set the output at the bottom.
The drop zone
The red band holds one dashed rectangle. Drop .heic or .heif files inside that rectangle and they are added to the list. Dropping a folder does not work here — use Add Folder instead. Files anywhere else in the window are ignored.
The file list
- File name — with a checkbox. Ticked rows are the ones that get converted.
- Size and Create time — straight from the source file, so you can tell two similar shots apart.
- Status — Wait, Converting, Conversion succeed! or Conversion failured!
- Operation — view opens the photo, remove drops the row from the list.
The settings strip
Three lines: where the output goes, which format it takes, and how much metadata and quality to keep. The Convert button on the right runs the ticked rows. Each control is described in Settings.
Next · part 2 of 7 Install & add photos Install from the Microsoft Store, then drop a whole folder on the red zone — duplicates are skipped for you.