I Built a Free HEIC Converter and Live Photo Toolkit That Runs Entirely in Your Browser

Apple makes great hardware and software. But they also make file formats that do not play well with anything outside the Apple ecosystem. I built livephotokit.com to solve one specific version of this problem: Live Photos and HEIC files.

The two tools in one

LivePhotoKit does two things that usually require separate apps:

HEIC Converter: Convert HEIC images to JPG or PNG. HEIC is Apple's default photo format since iOS 11. It saves space with better compression than JPEG, but most non-Apple software cannot open it. The converter handles single files or batch conversion, all in your browser.

Live Photo Tools: Extract still frames from Apple Live Photos, play them as video, or convert the MOV component to MP4. Live Photos are actually a paired HEIC image and MOV video file. The tool lets you view and extract both parts.

Privacy first

Everything runs client-side in your browser. Your photos never leave your device. No upload to a server, no cloud processing, no account needed. This matters because photos are personal. You should not have to trust a random website with your camera roll just to convert a file format.

What else it does

• HEIC Viewer: open and preview HEIC files directly in the browser
• Open LIVP: handle the LIVP format used by iPhone Live Photos
• Image Compressor: resize and compress images for web or email
• Free, no ads, no watermarks on output files

Try it at livephotokit.com. Drop any HEIC or Live Photo file and see the result instantly.