AnyFormat

00 ICO → PNG

ICO to PNG

Pulls out the largest image the icon contains.

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  • No upload The conversion runs in this tab. Your file never travels — not to us, and not to the advertising.
  • No sign-up, no email, no daily cap There is no account system to sign up to.
  • No size limit we invented Only your device's memory — about ~2 GB on a desktop browser, ~400 MB on a phone.
  • Turn your Wi-Fi off and convert anyway The conversion needs nothing but this page. Ads will not load without a connection; your file will still convert. That is the whole claim, and it takes five seconds to check.

Converts a Windows icon to a PNG. An .ico usually holds several resolutions; the browser picks the largest, which is what you want when the reason for converting is to edit or reuse the artwork.

One image out of several

An icon is a container: a favicon commonly holds 16, 32 and 48 pixel versions, and a desktop icon may go up to 256. Only one image comes out here, and it is the largest available — there is no meaningful way to put several into a single PNG.

If you specifically need the 16-pixel version rather than a downscale of the large one, that is a different job and needs a tool that extracts entries individually. For editing artwork, the largest is what you want.

Transparency is preserved

Icons are almost always partly transparent, and PNG keeps the alpha channel exactly. Modern icons store PNG entries internally, so those transfer without any loss at all.

Which size to take out

A Windows icon is a container, and a well-made one holds the same artwork drawn several times — 16, 32, 48 and 256 pixels, each redrawn rather than scaled, because a 16-pixel icon that is a shrunken 256 is unreadable. The largest is extracted by default, since that is the one with the most information and the one people usually want. If you need the small one specifically, take it: at 16 pixels the designer's deliberate simplification is the point, and it is not something you can get back by downscaling the large version.

Other names for this

Also searched as “icon to png”, “extract favicon image”.

Questions

Which size do I get?
The largest the icon contains. That is the one worth having if you are going to edit or reuse the artwork.
Is transparency kept?
Yes. PNG has the same alpha channel model that icons use.
Can I convert a whole folder of images?
Yes. Drop as many files as you like, or a whole folder. Each keeps its original name with the new extension — IMG_4032.heic becomes IMG_4032.jpg, never converted_1.jpg — and you can download them individually or as a ZIP.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. The decoding and re-encoding happen in this tab using the browser’s own image support. Photos are personal in a way most files are not, and none of them is transmitted. Turn your Wi-Fi off and the converter keeps working.