Turn an iPhone photo into something everyone can open.
HEIC is what your iPhone shoots, WebP is what the web hands you, and plenty of apps and sites still refuse both. Right-click either one in Finder and a JPG appears beside it, encoded at quality 0.92.
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Ricly▸Converting to JPGIMG_4472.heic · on this MacConvertedIMG_4472.jpg · quality 0.92You have done this a hundred times.
- Open a browser
- Find a converter
- Upload the photo
- Wait
- Download it
- Move it back
- Close the tab
Ricly puts that one in the menu that is already under your cursor. Right-click the photo, pick Convert to JPG, the JPG lands beside it. Select fifty and it is still one right-click.
See what else comes with itOne conversion, at a setting you would have chosen.
JPEG is a lossy format, so there is a conversion. Quality 0.92 is the setting people pick by hand when they care, and it is the same one whichever plan you are on. The date, the camera and the orientation all survive the trip.
Quality 0.92
High enough that most people will not see the difference on a photograph, low enough that the file is a fraction of a lossless export. Fine detail and flat gradients are where a lossy encode shows first.
The date and the camera survive
EXIF and orientation are carried over, so the JPG keeps the day it was taken and the right way up. If you would rather they did not travel, Strip Metadata is one more right-click away.
The JPG lands beside the original
Same folder, same name, new extension. Your HEIC is never modified, moved or deleted — nothing is converted in place.
Nothing is ever overwritten
If a JPG with that name already exists you get a numbered one instead. Ricly does not replace a file that already carries the name.
Same job. No round trip.
macOS can already do this on its own, and that is the first alternative worth counting. The websites are the ones that ask for your photo first.
With Riclyon your Mac
WHAT IT REPLACES
Now do it 50 timesFour at a time inside,
the Mac stays responsive
This is where the native Quick Action stops being equal. It converts a selection too, but through a panel each time you change a setting. Ricly keeps it to the same two moves, converts four at once, and keeps the EXIF without a checkbox. Fifty photos on a website is fifty uploads.
macOS converts images itself, from the same menu, and it is nearly as short. Select, Convert Image, pick JPEG. It is free and local. Two differences are worth knowing. Its panel resizes as well as converts, and the metadata checkbox starts unticked, so the date and the camera are dropped unless you notice. And whether you see the item at all depends on what is enabled under System Settings, Extensions, Finder — which is why plenty of people who own a Mac have never used it. If converting the occasional photo is all you need, the Finder is enough and we would rather say so.
Shot on iPhone. Opens anywhere.
The format your phone chose should not decide who gets to see the picture. One right-click and it opens on any machine, in any year.
You came for one tool. 16 more come with it.
HEIC to JPG is not an app you install. It is one item in a menu that also carries 16 others — same download, same account, nothing extra to set up.
13 are free, 4 are Pro. They install themselves as they ship, so the menu grows without you doing anything. Strip Metadata will take the location out before you post it, and Compress Image will bring the size down for mail.
Free, with no ceiling.
No monthly count on this tool. A whole camera roll costs nothing.
- This tool has no monthly count. Convert a whole camera roll if you want to.
- Select fifty photos, right-click once, fifty JPGs.
- The same quality setting as any paid plan.
- A free account is required, an email address is enough.
€47.88 billed yearly, or €4.99 month to month.
- Pro adds nothing to this tool. It is already unlimited.
- The four Pro tools unlock: Extract Text, Upscale Image, Photo Grid, Batch Rename.
- Upload & Share goes to 20 GB and links last 30 days.
- 30-day trial for new subscribers · payment method required · cancel any time.
Questions people actually ask.
Which files can I convert?
HEIC and HEIF from your iPhone, and WebP images saved from the web. Each one comes out as a JPG beside the original. A WebP with transparency lands on a white background, since JPG has no transparency to keep.
Does the quality drop?
JPG is a lossy format, so there is a conversion — but at quality 0.92 the difference is not something you will see. Your original stays where it is if you ever want to go back to it.
Does it keep the date and location?
Yes. EXIF and orientation are carried across, so the photo keeps the day it was taken and the right way up. If you would rather strip that before sharing, Strip Metadata does exactly that.
Can I convert a whole album at once?
Select them all and right-click once. Each photo gets its own JPG, and nothing is queued behind a website.
What about Live Photos?
The still image is what gets converted. A JPG cannot hold the motion part, whichever tool you use.
Is the photo uploaded anywhere?
No. The conversion runs on your Mac. Ricly checks your account, so it needs the network, but the photo itself never leaves.
Where does the JPG go?
Into the same folder as the original, with the same name. Nothing is moved and nothing is replaced.
Right Click. Done.
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