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View iPhone Photos & Videos
on Windows – for free

CopyTrans Viewer opens HEIC images, HEVC videos and Live Photos directly on your PC. No converting. No plugins. No cost.

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Windows 10 & 11
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CopyTrans Viewer on Windows

Everything CopyTrans Viewer does

The only Windows viewer built specifically for Apple photo and video formats.

Open HEIC files

View any HEIC image directly on your PC. No conversion, no plugin purchase required.

Play Live Photos

See your iPhone Live Photos animate with motion and sound on your PC’s large screen.

Play HEVC videos

Watch iPhone HEVC-encoded videos of any length, directly on Windows.

Set as default viewer

Make CopyTrans Viewer your default photo viewer and iPhone files open seamlessly every time.

Fast and lightweight

Opens your files in the blink of an eye. No bloat, no subscription.

Always up to date

Automatically updated to support future Apple formats as they’re released.

Convert HEIC to JPEG in one click

Right-click any HEIC file in Windows Explorer and convert to JPEG on the spot – no extra app needed.

Convert HEIC file to JPEG in Windows Explorer

Users who love CopyTrans Viewer

It has a very clean look since it is embedded inside File Explorer. That makes for a seamless way to view and move photos and videos.

Alan

I installed it today and like the easy interface to copy photos to other drives on my computer.

George

This is perfect, this is exactly how Apple should have done it. So intuitive, I don’t understand why they didn’t do it like that from the beginning.

James

FAQ: CopyTrans Viewer for Windows

iPhones shoot in HEIC, HEIF and HEVC — formats Windows doesn’t support natively. CopyTrans Viewer installs the necessary codecs automatically so you can open all iPhone files without paying for plugins. See our guide: How to open iPhone photos on Windows.

Yes, CopyTrans Viewer is 100% free.

CopyTrans Viewer is a photo and video viewer. Conversion is handled by CopyTrans Studio, which is bundled with it. Right-click any .HEIC file on your PC and select “Convert to JPG with CopyTrans Studio”. Learn more: How to change HEIC to JPG.

Yes. Connect your iPhone, open CopyTrans Studio, find your Live Photos and drag them to your PC. To save just the video part, drag the .mov file to your Desktop. More: How to save Live Photo as a video.

Photos: HEIC, HEIF, PNG, JPEG, JPG, GIF, WebP, BPM, TIF, TIFF, SVG, ICO, DNG, CR2, Live Photo
Video: MP4, MOV

CopyTrans Viewer is a free photo and video viewer for iPhone media files. CopyTrans Studio is a full iPhone photo manager with features like automatic backup, Smart Albums and HEIC conversion. You install Studio to get Viewer, but can use each independently.

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Open HEIC, HEVC and Live Photos on Windows. Free.

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rated 4.5 – 250,000+ users
This is exactly how Apple should have done it.
James C.
Open HEIC pictures on any Windows PC without converting
Play Live Photos with motion and sound
Watch HEVC iPhone videos on your PC
CopyTrans Viewer is part of CopyTrans Studio
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