ICO to PNG

ICO to PNG for extracting icons

An ICO file is a small package of images, typically the same icon at several sizes. Editors and websites often can't use it directly. This ICO to PNG converter looks through the package, finds the biggest image, and saves it as a standard PNG with its transparency intact.

It's useful when you've lost your original logo and only have the favicon, when you need an icon for a presentation, or when you want to edit a Windows icon.

How to convert ICO to PNG

It takes a moment, and you can do it on any device.

1. 1

   Get your ICO file

   Use a downloaded favicon, or an icon from your project. Drop the .ico onto the upload box.

2. 2

   Press Convert to PNG

   The tool reads every image in the file and selects the one with the largest dimensions.

3. 3

   Save the PNG

   Download your image. Its transparency is kept, so you can place it on any background.

What's inside an ICO file

Only icons with a 256-pixel layer will give you a reasonably large PNG. Website favicons rarely include one.

Working with the extracted PNG

• Don't enlarge it much. Scaling a 32-pixel icon up to 500 pixels gives you a blurry result. If you need a large logo, find the source artwork.
• Rebuild your favicon set. Lost your other sizes? Use the favicon generator with your best available image to get a fresh pack.
• Make a new icon. Edit the PNG in an editor, then turn it back into an icon with PNG to ICO.
• Use it on the web. Very small PNGs are already light, but PNG to WEBP can work for bigger ones.

Both old and new ICO files work

ICO files store images in two ways: as older bitmap data, or as embedded PNG data. Windows icons from the past often use the first, and modern favicons usually use the second. This converter reads both, so old Windows icons and new favicons should convert with no extra work on your part.

Free and private

There's no sign-up or watermark, and your icon isn't uploaded anywhere. You can convert as many as you like, one at a time.