Turn HEIC photos into PPM. 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 PPM, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The HEIC to PPM 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. PPM is the simplest image format there is, readable by any programming language. HEIC is at home in saving storage on Apple devices; PPM is the usual choice for passing images between command-line tools. PPM cannot bring back detail that HEIC compression already removed; it simply stores the result without further loss, in a larger file.
PPM has no transparency, so see-through areas of a HEIC are filled with a solid colour, white by default; you can change it under Options. 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. PPM stores three bytes per pixel with no compression, so files are large.
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 converterPPM is the colour member of the Netpbm family: a short text header followed by the raw red, green and blue values of every pixel. It does no compression at all, which makes it trivial to write and read in any language and a favourite in teaching and in scripts. PNM is the collective name for PBM, PGM and PPM.
Opens in GIMP, ImageMagick, IrfanView and Unix graphics tools; not browsers
PPM converter| HEICHEIC photo | PPMPPM image | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | High Efficiency Image Container | Portable Pixmap |
| Type | Raster image | Raster image |
| Compression | Lossy (HEVC) | None |
| Transparency | Yes | No |
| Animation | Image sequences | No |
| Introduced | 2015, by the Moving Picture Experts Group (adopted by Apple in iOS 11) | 1988, by Jef Poskanzer |
| Opens in | iPhone, iPad and Mac natively; Windows needs extra codecs; most browsers cannot display it | GIMP, ImageMagick, IrfanView and Unix graphics tools; not browsers |
| Best for | Saving storage on Apple devices | Passing images between command-line tools |
| File extension | .heic, .heif, .hif | .ppm, .pnm |
No. The HEIC to PPM 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: PPM 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 PPM. 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.