No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pillow-heif has 11M monthly downloads and 300 GitHub stars. Version 1.4.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2021.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of pillow. It is used by 158 tracked packages, including pdd-cli, flowtask and backgroundremover.
GitHub topics include pillow, heic and heif.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 9 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
48
Adoption
70
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
17 days ago
Monthly downloads
10,964,793
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
10,964,793
Stars
300
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
•
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
331,660
Month daily avg
365,493
Momentum
-9.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
•
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD-3-Clause
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
26 days ago
Total releases
56
Releases/year
11.6
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
9
Monthly downloads
10,964,793
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
•
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
58
Issue Burden
16.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
70.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
39.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
181.8K
Windows
11.3K
macOS
2.3K
Python Versions
3.12
46.6%
86.6K
3.11
20.4%
37.9K
3.13
19.8%
36.8K
3.10
6.6%
12.4K
3.14
6.6%
12.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
144.9K
US
2.
IN
16.3K
IN
3.
DE
3.9K
DE
4.
IE
3.7K
IE
5.
NL
3.0K
NL
6.
SG
2.7K
SG
7.
JP
2.3K
JP
8.
KR
2.2K
KR
9.
GB
2.0K
GB
10.
FR
1.9K
FR
Dependencies
1
- pillow >=11.1.0
21 optional dependencies
- coverage[dev]
- defusedxml[tests]
- defusedxml[tests-min]
- defusedxml[dev]
- numpy[tests]
- numpy[dev]
- opencv-python[dev]
- packaging[dev]
- packaging[tests]
- packaging[tests-min]
- pre-commit[dev]
- pylint[dev]
- pympler[dev]
- pympler[tests]
- pytest[dev]
- pytest[tests]
- pytest[tests-min]
- setuptools[dev]
- sphinx[docs]
- sphinx-issues[docs]
- sphinx-rtd-theme[docs]
Used By
158
- pdd-cli
- flowtask
- backgroundremover
- pixlstash
- pixeltable
- agentic-doc
- socialhome
- vision-agent
- attachments
- decimer
- depth-anything-3
- natocr
- fastdup
- photovault
- warp-beacon
- capybara-docsaid
- heic2png
- flowly-ai
- amie
- iscc-sdk
- core-framework
- inky-image-display-shared
- immich-memories
- critterchat
- inopyutils
- local-operator
- litemm
- wdoc
- 01memories
- clustimage
- numpyimage
- srxy
- netkiller-yoloutils
- cista
- mac-messages-mcp
- duplicate-images
- bao-ai
- libdev
- photomapai
- image-analyser
- img4it
- cosma-backend
- batch-img
- yaffo
- django-solvitize
- internal-rdbms
- seedream-image-mcp
- zcmds
- simplevision
- photos-drive
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
September 12, 2021
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
1.4.0
Total Releases
56
Contributors
9
Open PRs
10
Archived
No
Author
Alexander Piskun
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
pp310
pp311
pp37
pp38
pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh