The other converters,
read carefully.
Four pages answering the only question that matters before you upload a photo to a stranger: what did that company write down about what it may do with your file? Not what we think of them — what their own published terms say, quoted, linked and dated.
Before you read any of this
We make a competing tool, and you should weigh these pages knowing that.
A converter reviewing its rivals has an obvious motive to make them look bad, so these pages are built to take that option away from us. Every factual claim is a verbatim quote from the company's own published terms, privacy policy or security page. Each quote links to the document it came from and carries the date we read it, so you can check the source yourself and see whether it has changed since. No paraphrase, no ellipsis doing quiet work.
Where a competitor does something well, we say so — CloudConvert's security page is a good one, FreeConvert's retention promise is a normal and reasonable arrangement, and for jobs we don't do at all, such as video or OCR'd searchable text, a cloud converter is simply the right answer and we say that too. None of these companies are villains, and server-side conversion is a legitimate way to build software. The argument we're making is narrower: that uploading should be a choice you make knowingly.
Terms change. If a quote no longer matches the source, the source is right and this page is stale — the read date on every citation is there so you can tell.
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Is heictojpg.com safe?
A genuine product from Beamr Imaging Ltd. that uploads your photos, promises deletion within 48 hours, and asks you to grant unusually broad rights over what you send — all three quoted from its own Terms of Use.
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Is FreeConvert safe?
By its own published account, yes: uploads over HTTPS, automatic deletion after a few hours, a metered free tier. A normal, reasonable arrangement, with the usual cloud caveat attached.
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Is CloudConvert safe?
Immediate deletion, no permanent storage, isolated containers, encrypted transfer — on its own account a well-run cloud service, and the remaining question isn't about the server at all.
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heictojpg alternatives, seven of them
There is no single best alternative, only a best one per job: cloud converters, Windows extensions, Apple Photos, desktop viewers and the browser, with the tradeoff each one asks of you.
The guides, if you'd rather read about the format
These pages are about the companies. The guides are about HEIC itself — how to verify in ten seconds that any converter, including this one, isn't uploading your photos; why Windows shows you a blank icon; how to move a whole camera roll at once; why PNG is usually the wrong answer; and turning photos into a PDF, one file or one each.
There's a sibling tool, too: the image compressor shrinks JPG, PNG and WebP files that are simply too big to send — in your browser, nothing uploaded, the same way everything here works.
The converter these pages are biased toward
Runs in your browser, so there is no upload and no terms of service about your photos to read — we never receive them. Free, no account, no daily cap. Check it with airplane mode before you trust it.