How to convert HEIC to GIF
- Drop your HEIC files on the box above, or click it to choose them (up to 30 at once).
- Check the settings.
- Press Convert. Each file is processed on your device and shows its old and new size.
- Download the files one by one or take them all as a ZIP.
What changes when you convert HEIC to GIF
- GIF can hold at most 256 colours. Simple graphics with few colours convert exactly; photos are reduced to a 256-colour palette chosen for that image, with optional dithering to smooth gradients.
- Transparency is kept, but GIF only knows fully transparent or fully opaque: semi-transparent edges become one or the other.
- Camera details and GPS location (EXIF) are not copied into the new file. Photo orientation is applied to the pixels first, so the result is the right way up.
About HEIC and GIF files
HEIC is the format iPhones save photos in by default. It is roughly half the size of an equivalent JPEG, but Windows, Android and most websites cannot open it without extra software.
GIF is limited to 256 colours per image and supports on/off transparency and animation. It is lossless for simple graphics, but photos have to be reduced to 256 colours. It is a good choice for simple graphics, icons and places that only accept GIF.
Limits
Up to 30 files of 25 MB each per batch and images up to 50 megapixels — beyond that browsers run out of memory, so the tool says so instead of producing a broken file. HEIC decoding uses libheif in the background and can take a few seconds per photo on a phone. Files that are not images, or are damaged, are rejected with the reason.