Simple Image Converter compared with iMazing, CopyTrans, XnConvert and web converters
If you’re weighing Simple Image Converter against the converters that come up in the same search, here is where each one stops, from its own pages, and what ours is built to do instead.
Where the alternatives stop
Facts as stated on each vendor’s page on 16 Sep 2026; we don’t quote prices because they change.
| Tool | Platforms | Opens | Where it stops |
|---|---|---|---|
| iMazing Converter | Windows, macOS | HEIC (and HEVC video) | HEIC only: no WebP, AVIF, PDF or ICO. No Linux. A lead-in to a paid iPhone-manager suite. |
| CopyTrans HEIC | Windows | HEIC | Windows only; installs a system-wide shell plug-in; HEIC only; business use needs a licence. |
| XnConvert | Windows, macOS, Linux | 500+ formats | A dense, action-chain interface built for power users; commercial use needs a licence. |
| Windows Photos with Microsoft’s extensions | Windows | HEIC once the extensions are installed | One photo at a time; the extensions aren’t preinstalled and “won’t open even with them installed” threads are common. |
| Web converters | Any browser | Most formats | Your photos are uploaded; free tiers cap you (CloudConvert “10 / day”, FreeConvert about “20 files per day”, from their pricing pages). |
| Browser-based converters | Any browser | Mostly HEIC | Browser memory limits on big batches; mostly HEIC only; new sites that come and go. |
What Simple Image Converter does instead
- Whole folders of mixed formats in one pass. HEIC, AVIF, WebP, PNG, JPG, BMP, TIFF, GIF (first frame), SVG, ICO and PDF all go in together, up to 500 files or entire folders with subfolders, converted in parallel. Files it can’t read are skipped with a reason and nothing is overwritten.
- Presets for the common jobs. iPhone photos → JPG, Web images → PNG, Make icon, Scan pages → PDF, Email size. One click, then Convert All.
- Nothing to install and nothing uploaded. Its own HEIC, AVIF and WebP decoders are built in; no Microsoft extensions, no shell plug-ins, no accounts.
- Location data stripped by default, orientation always applied. We tested the stripping; see convert without uploading.
- PDF both ways and multi-size ICO in the same window.
- Windows and SteamOS/Linux, the same app. As of 16 Sep 2026 it was the only image converter on Steam.
- One-time purchase, no subscription, no daily cap.
Our timed batch and metadata tests are on the bulk conversion page.
What it doesn’t do
It can’t save HEIC or AVIF, doesn’t open RAW camera files, and doesn’t edit. If you need to produce HEIC or AVIF, or process RAW, it isn’t the tool. For getting phone photos and web images into formats every program opens, in bulk, it is.
Related guides
- Bulk convert HEIC to JPG: whole folders of iPhone photos at once, on Windows or Linux
How to convert hundreds or thousands of iPhone HEIC photos to JPG in one pass with Simple Image Converter: why the usual routes stop at a few files a day, a timed conversion test, what happens to orientation and location data, and a folder walkthrough.
- HEIC to JPG on Linux and SteamOS: a native app that opens iPhone photos without touching your distribution's packages
Convert iPhone HEIC photos to JPG on Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Mint or SteamOS with Simple Image Converter: a native Linux build with its own HEIC decoder, so no package roulette and no breakage on photos from recent iPhones. Whole folders in one pass, tested on this site's Linux machine.