libheif is an ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 HEIF and AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) file format decoder and encoder. HEIF and AVIF are new image file formats employing HEVC (h.265) or AV1 image coding, respectively, for the best compression ratios currently possible. HEIF is the default image file format on Apple devices. This library comes with some example programs including heif-convert that converts HEIF/AVIF images to JPEG or PNG. libheif makes use of libde265 for HEIF image decoding and x265 for encoding. For AVIF, libaom is used as codec. google-go-lang is needed only at build time.