If one is willing to install a Flatpak, Snap app, or PPA: Unofficial Packages and older Ubuntu versions Open the photo via one of these image viewer/editor, then select Export to JPG (or another image format like PNG) or Save as (choose a different image format then HEIC).įor batch conversion on the command-line, use heif-convert or ImageMagick's convert. eog (Eye of GNOME, GIMP, Krita, GPicView. Most of the above mentioned apps support to convert a HEIC-photo, e.g. Programs/Apps to CONVERT HEIF/HEIC-pictures: libheif-examples – provides command-line utilities: heif-convert and heif-enc.heif-thumbnailer - a thumbnailer for HEIF images that can be used by Nautilus and Nemo.xviewer (based on Eye of GNOME) with heif-gdk-pixbuf.Kodi (free and open-source media player software application) with Add-on:HEIF image decoder.Krita ( Review of version 4.2, Feb 2019).GPicView (at least version 0.2.5-3), can be installed from the Software Center or directly from the project page.Darktable, free open source photography application and raw developer ( 3.8+).gThumb Image Viewer & Organizer ≥ 3.11.4, in ≥ Ubuntu 22.04 (for older verstions see below).

(Thanks seanlano!) - if it does not work for you, see PPA tip below. GNOME PPAImage Viewer (Eye of GNOME - eog) is updated in Ubuntu 19.10 and later.Programs/Apps that support HEIF via libheif1 include:

This will install libheif1 and libde265-0 along.Īpparently KDE distros with KDE Frameworks 5.80 have added support for HEIF and HEIC Image Formats to all KDE Apps ( news, KDE announcement, MR), but the support flag is not enabled yet in the default (K)ubuntu packages ( ubuntu bug). In a terminal run: sudo apt install heif-gdk-pixbuf Starting with Ubuntu 20.04: At least for eog (Eye of GNOME, GNOME Image Viewer), you have to install the package heif-gdk-pixbuf (no PPA needed).

The available versions of Geeqie, ImageMagick, gThumb and many more (see below) have built-in support.

install heif-thumbnailer for file manager (nautilus, nemo) thumbnails.

install heif-gdk-pixbuf for support in at least eog (Eye of GNOME, GNOME Image Viewer).

Linux image viewer