Photo Bridge

Convert iOS photos and videos (HEIC, MOV, HEVC) into formats your Pixel can handle — without re-encoding or losing data.

Requires ffmpeg and exiftool (brew install ffmpeg exiftool).

Install

brew install nikitadrokin/tap/photo-bridge
xattr -cr '/Applications/Photo Bridge.app'

Since I don't have a paid Apple Developer account, macOS will flag the app as unsafe. The xattr line clears that macOS "quarantine" flag so it'll be safe to open.

Contributing

Requires Bun and Rust.

git clone https://github.com/nikitadrokin/photo-bridge.git
cd photo-bridge
bun install
bun run tauri dev   # dev mode with hot-reload
bun run tauri build # outputs .dmg/.app to src-tauri/target/release/bundle/