HEIC vs AVIF vs JPEG XL (2026-06-11)
heic vs avif vs jpeg xl
3 new image formats.
- Apple HEIC. proprietary.
- avif. free. supported by browsers.
- jpeg xl. free. supported by chome n firefox but need to turn on in hidden setting.
- all support wide color p3 natively, not via ICC profile.
- all has much better compression than standard jpeg.
webp image format
- google's webp.
- WebP
- began in 2010.
- JPEG 2000. never gained usage.