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HEIC to BMP converter

Convert HEIC to BMP in your browser. No upload and no account: the file never leaves your device, so the only size limit is your device’s memory.

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How to make the SVG

Tracing suits logos, icons and flat artwork and scales cleanly. Photos are better kept as pixels inside the SVG.

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Dither Scatters black dots to suggest gray, instead of a hard cut-off.
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Keep the animation For animated GIF, WebP and APNG sources. Turn off to save just the first frame.
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For an exact width and height, use the Resize Image tool instead.

Bytes of your files sent anywhere: 0 B

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Should you convert HEIC to BMP?

Worth it when an app or an editor needs BMP, or before you edit the picture several times. BMP won’t restore the detail HEIC already threw away, and the file will be larger, but nothing more is lost from here on.

BMP is also the more widely supported of the two: it opens almost everywhere, while HEIC is mainly an Apple format.

HEIC is the iPhone’s photo format, built on the HEVC video codec; BMP is an uncompressed grid of pixels. Use BMP only when a specific piece of software, a printer or an embedded device asks for it.

HEIC and BMP compared
Property HEIC BMP
Compression Lossy Uncompressed
Transparency No No
Animation No No
Support Mainly an Apple format Opens almost everywhere
Best for Storing photos on Apple devices without using much space Old software and hardware that only understands raw bitmaps
Introduced 2017 1990

How to convert HEIC to BMP

  1. 01

    Add your HEIC

    Drop your HEIC image onto the box, or click to choose it. It is read from your disk and stays there.

  2. 02

    Check the settings

    The output is already set to BMP. Change the quality if you want to; the defaults suit most files.

  3. 03

    Save the BMP

    Press convert and save the BMP. Several files come back together as a ZIP.

What changes when HEIC becomes BMP

BMP can’t add back what HEIC removed

The HEIC was compressed when it was saved, and that detail is gone. BMP records exactly what the HEIC contains now, compression marks included, and keeps it that way however often you edit and re-save.

iPhone photos convert with their orientation

Portrait photos stay upright, and Live Photos become a still BMP. Location and camera details aren’t copied into the new file.

Expect a much larger file

BMP is far bigger for the same content. Choose it because something needs BMP, not to send or store the file. HEIC: An iPhone photo is usually 1–3 MB. BMP: A 12-megapixel image is about 36 MB.

This page is put together from our notes on each format, choosing only what is true of HEIC and BMP, so every pairing states the same facts the same way. How these pages are made.

Why it doesn’t upload

Changing a picture’s format is work your browser already knows how to do. Sending your photos to a server first only adds waiting and risk, so nothing is sent.

How to check for yourself

Worth knowing

  • About the HEIC. AirDrop and iCloud often convert photos to JPG for you, but cables, email and “Files” copies keep HEIC, so the same photo works on one computer and not another.
  • About the BMP. BMP looks like a safe “raw” choice, but a single photo can run to tens of megabytes and most sites refuse it.
  • DDS, PSD, EXR, XWD and JPEG 2000 are read by the FFmpeg engine, a one-time 31 MB download.

Questions

Will converting HEIC to BMP lose quality?

No further quality is lost: BMP keeps exactly what is in the HEIC. It can’t undo compression the HEIC already has.

Will the BMP be smaller than the HEIC?

Expect a much larger file. BMP is far bigger for the same content. Choose it because something needs BMP, not to send or store the file. HEIC: An iPhone photo is usually 1–3 MB. BMP: A 12-megapixel image is about 36 MB.

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