Turn HEIC photos into CUR. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop HEIC files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
Ready · other file types work too0 bytes uploaded, ever
Drop HEIC (HEIF) files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. Open Options first if you want to change the defaults. The work happens in this tab.
Save the CUR, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The HEIC to CUR converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your photos are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
HEIC does not open in most browsers, on many Windows PCs or in a lot of upload forms. CUR is what Windows needs for a custom mouse pointer. HEIC is at home in saving storage on Apple devices; CUR is the usual choice for mouse pointers on Windows. CUR cannot bring back detail that HEIC compression already removed; it simply stores the result without further loss, in a larger file.
The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can pick which icon sizes go into the file.
Most browsers other than Safari cannot read HEIC themselves, so a HEIC decoder of under 1 MB is downloaded the first time and kept in the browser cache. The picture is fitted into squares of the sizes you pick, 32, 48 and 64 pixels by default; the hotspot, the pixel that points, is the top-left corner, where an arrow's tip sits.
HEIC is what iPhones have saved photos as since iOS 11 in 2017. It uses the HEVC video codec to store a photo in roughly half the space of a JPG. Outside Apple's own apps, support is patchy: Windows needs an extension and most websites refuse it.
Opens in iPhone, iPad and Mac natively; Windows needs extra codecs; most browsers cannot display it
HEIC converterCUR is structured like an ICO icon file with one addition: each image carries a hotspot, the pixel that actually does the pointing. Windows uses it for custom mouse pointers. Cursors are small, typically 32 by 32 pixels.
Opens in Windows, icon and cursor editors, GIMP and IrfanView; not browsers' image viewers
CUR converter| HEICHEIC photo | CURWindows cursor | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | High Efficiency Image Container | Windows Cursor |
| Type | Raster image | Raster image (cursor) |
| Compression | Lossy (HEVC) | Usually none |
| Transparency | Yes | Yes |
| Animation | Image sequences | No |
| Introduced | 2015, by the Moving Picture Experts Group (adopted by Apple in iOS 11) | The early 1990s, by Microsoft |
| Opens in | iPhone, iPad and Mac natively; Windows needs extra codecs; most browsers cannot display it | Windows, icon and cursor editors, GIMP and IrfanView; not browsers' image viewers |
| Best for | Saving storage on Apple devices | Mouse pointers on Windows |
| File extension | .heic, .heif, .hif | .cur |
No. The HEIC to CUR conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
No further quality is lost: CUR stores the decoded pixels exactly. It cannot restore what HEIC compression already discarded, and the file will be larger.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the HEIC file, press Convert and save the CUR. There is nothing to install.
Pictures of up to 120 megapixels are accepted (for example 12,000 by 10,000 pixels); a larger one is refused with a message. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.