Convert HEIC to PDF

Yes — unlimited free use with a watermark and 0 AI Deep Detect, then $8.99/mo Start for 8 AI Deep Detect/mo. No credit card required for the free plan.

Yes — we host in Frankfurt (EU), AES-256 at rest. GDPR-compliant, never used to train third-party AI.

Five concrete differences: (1) Pricing — CloudConvert gives 25 free conversions/day then $8/mo Lite ($0.025 per conversion pay-as-you-go); Smallpdf gates batch HEIC behind Pro at $9/mo (or $108/yr) after a 2-task/day cap; Adobe Acrobat is "free" online but requires a mandatory Adobe ID sign-in even for the converter; Canva is free but watermarks PDFs over 3 pages on the free tier and requires $14.99/mo Canva Pro to unlock the Brand Kit and batch processing; FreeConvert caps free uploads at 1 GB total/day; TinyWow is free with a hard 3-credits-per-day cap; macOS Preview is free but Mac-only with no Windows or Linux equivalent. iFillPDF gives you unlimited free use with a watermark and 0 AI Deep Detect with no card, then $8.99/mo Start for 8 AI Deep Detect/mo — batch up to 100 HEIC files included on every plan. (2) Color management — CloudConvert free strips ICC color profiles (your Display P3 iPhone photos render as flat sRGB); TinyWow does naive RGB conversion without color-managed transform; Smallpdf flattens to sRGB; only macOS Preview, Adobe Acrobat ($19.99/mo Pro) and iFillPDF preserve the full embedded ICC profile (sRGB IEC 61966-2.1, Display P3, Adobe RGB 1998). (3) Privacy — Smallpdf hosts in Switzerland (outside EEA, no automatic GDPR adequacy), CloudConvert in Germany (good), Adobe and Canva in the US under Cloud Act 50 USC §3024 and FISA 702 reach, TinyWow on shared US infrastructure. iFillPDF runs on Hetzner Falkenstein eu-central-1 with SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, ICO UK registered, files purged within 24h, GDPR Art. 5(1)(c) compliant. (4) EXIF and Live Photo — iPhone HEIC photos embed GPS latitude/longitude and Live Photo motion data by default; CloudConvert and Adobe carry the full EXIF including GPS through to the PDF (privacy concern), Canva strips EXIF entirely (loses date/orientation). iFillPDF strips GPS by default for GDPR Art. 5(1)(c) data minimization, retains date/orientation/camera model, and offers an opt-in toggle for full EXIF retention. (5) Output standards — only iFillPDF, Adobe Acrobat Pro and macOS Preview produce true ISO 32000-1:2008 PDFs with optional ISO 19005-2 PDF/A-2 archive mode (required for IRS records retention under 26 USC § 6001 and Companies Act 2006 §388 statutory retention).

Yes for HDR and wide-gamut, with one caveat for Live Photos. (a) Display P3 wide-gamut color (default on iPhone 7 and newer) — we preserve the embedded ICC color profile through the libheif decode step and the PDF embed step, so a portrait shot in P3 renders identically on macOS Preview, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Foxit and Microsoft Edge with PDF/X-4 (ISO 15930-7) output color management. CloudConvert free strips this entirely; only Adobe Acrobat Pro ($19.99/mo) and macOS Preview match our color fidelity. (b) HDR HLG and HDR10 (iPhone 12 Pro and newer captured in 10-bit Dolby Vision) — we tone-map to Rec. 709-compatible 8-bit per channel since PDF 1.7 (ISO 32000-1:2008) does not natively support HDR; the resulting flattened image is visually faithful to the SDR preview Apple shows in the Photos app on a non-HDR display. (c) Live Photos — these are HEIC stills with a paired .MOV motion track; PDF cannot embed video, so we drop the motion track and convert only the still keyframe (the same behavior as macOS Preview, Adobe Acrobat and CloudConvert). If you need the motion video, export it separately from the iPhone Photos app first. For receipt substantiation, IRS Form 1099-NEC supporting docs, real-estate inspection PDFs and insurance claims, the still keyframe is what you need anyway.