Convert JPG to ICO
Convert JPG to ICO free, right here in your browser. Turns a photo into a proper icon file with every size built in, ready for a browser tab, a shortcut or a program. No signup, nothing to install.
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Why convert JPG to ICO here
Converting JPG to ICO here is free, needs no account, and has no size limit set by us.
Your files stay with you
Converting your JPG 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 JPG 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 JPG in and take the ICO away. Nothing to install, nothing to set up first.
How to convert JPG to ICO
To convert JPG to ICO, crop your photo square, drop it into the converter above, choose ICO, and download the icon. Every size is built for you.
Crop your photo square first, then drop it into the box below.
Choose ICO. Every size is built for you, so there is nothing to pick.
Download the .ico and point your site or shortcut at it.
Crop for the smallest size, not the biggest
Your icon will spend most of its life the size of a full stop. Pick the crop that still reads at that size and everything else follows.
A browser tab shows an icon extremely small, and a photograph carries far more detail than survives the journey down. A face, a sign, a horizon, a busy background — none of it is legible by the time it reaches a tab. What does survive is one strong shape and two or three clear colours.
So crop tight on a single subject rather than handing over the whole scene, and prefer a photo with a plain, contrasting background. Look at your crop shrunk down before you convert; whatever you can still recognise there is what the icon will be.
What you get from a photo
A solid square icon holding every size at once. There is no see-through background, because a JPG has none to give.
Fine for a photo icon
The whole square is filled, edge to edge, because that is what a JPG holds. For a profile picture, an app tile or a shortcut built from a photograph, that is exactly right and nothing is missing.
Start from a PNG
If you want a logo shape with nothing behind it, so it sits cleanly on a dark tab and a light one alike, that has to come from a picture that can hold a see-through background in the first place.
That second case is the more common one for a site's icon, and converting a PNG to ICO is the page for it. One more thing shared by both: an icon is square, so a photo that is wider than it is tall gets stretched to fit rather than trimmed — crop it yourself first and you keep control of what stays in frame.
Questions people ask
No — it comes out as a solid square. A JPG stores every pixel as a colour and has no see-through areas to carry across, so the whole square is filled. That suits a photo-style icon perfectly well. If you want a shape that sits on a tab with nothing behind it, start from a PNG instead.
Yes, and photos almost never are. Anything wider than it is tall gets fitted to a square, which stretches the picture rather than trimming the sides. Crop it square in any photo app first — you will also get to choose what stays in frame, which matters more here than usual.
Because a browser tab shows an icon very small, and detail disappears long before it gets there. Faces, text and busy backgrounds all turn to mush. What survives is a single strong shape and a couple of clear colours, so crop tight on one subject rather than using the whole scene.
Four, all built for you from the picture you supply: a tiny one for browser tabs, two middle sizes for taskbars and shortcuts, and a large one for anywhere icons are shown big. They sit together in the one .ico file and the system picks whichever it needs.
Yes. Every size inside the icon is made from your picture, so a small one has to be stretched up to fill the largest and arrives looking coarse. A photo straight off a camera or phone is more than enough, once you have cropped it square.
Yes. Drop in as many as you like and each comes back as its own .ico, with the batch arriving as a single .zip. The conversion runs on your own device.