Turn iPhone photos into GIFs. 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
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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 GIF, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The HEIC to GIF 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.
GIF is occasionally the only image type an old forum, signature editor or messaging system accepts. It reduces a photo to 256 colours, so expect visible banding; choose JPG or PNG whenever the destination allows it.
The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can resize the result.
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.
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 converterGIF is a 1987 format that survives because it loops silently everywhere. Each frame can use at most 256 colours, so photos and video look grainy and files are far larger than an equivalent MP4.
Opens in Every browser, phone and messaging app
GIF converter| HEICHEIC photo | GIFGIF image | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | High Efficiency Image Container | Graphics Interchange Format |
| Type | Raster image | Raster image, often animated |
| Compression | Lossy (HEVC) | Lossless, but limited to 256 colours per frame |
| Transparency | Yes | On or off only (no soft edges) |
| Animation | Image sequences | Yes |
| Introduced | 2015, by the Moving Picture Experts Group (adopted by Apple in iOS 11) | 1987, by CompuServe |
| Opens in | iPhone, iPad and Mac natively; Windows needs extra codecs; most browsers cannot display it | Every browser, phone and messaging app |
| Best for | Saving storage on Apple devices | Short looping clips and reactions |
| File extension | .heic, .heif, .hif | .gif |
No. The HEIC to GIF conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Yes, for photos: GIF holds at most 256 colours, so the picture is reduced to a 256-colour palette and smooth gradients can show bands. Graphics that already use few colours come through unchanged.
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 GIF. 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.