Convert ICO to PNG
Convert ICO to PNG free, right here in your browser. Takes the artwork out of a Windows icon and hands it back as an ordinary picture, see-through background and all, ready for editors and upload forms that turn an .ico away. No signup, nothing to install.
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Why convert ICO to PNG here
Converting ICO to PNG here is free, needs no account, and has no size limit set by us.
Your files stay with you
Converting your ICO here doesn't send it to a server. It happens on your own computer.
No account, no watermark
No email, no sign-up wall, and nothing stamped across the image you get back.
Whole batches at once
Drop a folder's worth of ICO files. They queue up together and come back as one zip.
We don't set a size limit
Convert a file of any size, as many times as you like. There is no plan tier and no daily cap.
Free, and it stays free
Every conversion here is free to use, with no trial, no credits and nothing held back behind a payment.
It just works
Drop your ICO in and take the PNG away. Nothing to install, nothing to set up first.
How to convert ICO to PNG
To convert ICO to PNG, drop your icon files into the converter above, choose PNG, and download the results. Nothing needs setting.
Drop your .ico files into the box below.
Choose PNG. There is nothing else to set on this one.
Download the PNGs, or take the batch as one .zip.
An icon file holds more than one picture
You get the biggest one in there, as a single PNG. That is the sharpest version the icon has to offer.
This is the part that surprises people. An .ico is less a picture than a small box of them: the same artwork drawn several times over at different sizes, so Windows can reach for whichever one suits a taskbar, a title bar or a desktop shortcut. Open it in a normal image editor and it either refuses outright or silently shows you one of them.
The conversion takes the largest picture in the box and gives you that. One icon in, one PNG out — the most detailed version, with its see-through background intact, which is almost always the one you were after. If you need a different size, scale the PNG down afterwards in any editor; going down stays crisp, and going up will not.
What people do with the PNG
Two jobs account for nearly all of it: rebuilding a site's icon, and getting a logo out of an old program so it can be used somewhere else.
Start from what is live
Pull the existing icon off the site, convert it here, and you have the current artwork open in front of you as a normal editable picture rather than something your editor refuses to load. Redraw it from there.
Put it in a document
Icons out of older Windows software are often the only surviving copy of a logo. As a PNG it will drop into a slide, a document or a web page, and the cut-out edge means it sits on any background colour without a white box around it.
Either way what you end up with is an ordinary PNG file — the format editors, documents and web pages all expect — rather than something only Windows really knows what to do with.
Questions people ask
The biggest one in there. An .ico usually stores the same picture drawn at several sizes so Windows can pick a suitable one, and the conversion takes the largest of them — the sharpest version available. You get a single PNG rather than one file per size.
Yes. Icons are nearly always cut out so they can sit on a taskbar or a browser tab, and PNG holds that see-through area exactly as it was. Nothing gets filled in behind it, so the PNG drops onto any colour of page or slide cleanly.
Because it is a Windows icon file rather than an ordinary picture, so image editors, document tools and upload forms often turn it away even though the artwork inside is perfectly good. PNG is the format all of them expect, which is usually the whole reason for converting.
That is the common reason people land here. Convert the existing .ico to PNG, edit the artwork as you like, and you have a clean starting point. Note that the PNG will not be an icon file itself — it is the picture from inside one.
Only as sharp as the biggest picture the icon contained, which is usually modest. Icons are drawn small by design, so treat the PNG as artwork to work from rather than something to blow up — scaling it up will show the same softness any small image does.
Yes. Drop in as many as you like; they queue together and come back as a single .zip, one PNG per icon file. Nothing is uploaded while it happens — the conversion runs on your own device.