Convert PNG to ICO
Convert PNG to ICO free, right here in your browser. Turns your logo into a proper icon file with every size built in, and a see-through background that stays see-through. No signup, nothing to install.
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Why convert PNG to ICO here
Converting PNG to ICO here is free, needs no account, and has no size limit set by us.
Your files stay with you
Converting your PNG 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 PNG 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 PNG in and take the ICO away. Nothing to install, nothing to set up first.
How to convert PNG to ICO
To convert PNG to ICO, drop a square PNG into the converter above, choose ICO, and download the icon. Every size is built for you.
Drop a square PNG into the box below — the bigger the better.
Choose ICO. Every size is built for you, so there is nothing to pick.
Download the .ico and drop it into your site or your project.
One file, every size the system asks for
An icon is not one picture, it is several. Your .ico comes out holding all of them, and you do not have to choose.
A browser tab shows an icon tiny. A taskbar shows it a little larger. A desktop or a settings screen may show it big. Rather than making you export each of those and keep track of them, an .ico file carries the set, and whatever is displaying it takes the one that fits. That is the whole reason the format still exists.
So there is nothing to configure here. Drop the PNG in, take the .ico out, and it will look right in a tab and on a desktop alike. If you want to see what is inside one you already have, converting an ICO back to PNG pulls out the largest picture it holds.
Two things about the picture you start from
Both are worth thirty seconds before you convert, because both decide how the finished icon looks and neither can be fixed afterwards.
Or it gets stretched
Icons are square, so a wide logo is fitted to a square rather than having its sides trimmed — which squashes it. If yours is wider than it is tall, drop it onto a square canvas with a little space around it first, and convert that instead.
Every size comes from it
All the sizes in the icon are made from the one picture you hand over. A small starting image has to be stretched up to fill the largest of them and arrives looking coarse, so give it the biggest square version you have.
Questions people ask
Yes, and it is the main reason to start from a PNG. A cut-out logo stays cut out, so the icon sits on a browser tab, a dark taskbar or a light one without a white box appearing around it. Start from a picture with a solid background and that background becomes part of the icon.
Four, and they are all built for you: a tiny one for browser tabs, two middle sizes for taskbars and shortcuts, and a large one for places that show icons big. They live in the single .ico file, and whatever is displaying it reaches for whichever suits.
It genuinely does. Anything wider than it is tall gets fitted to a square, which stretches it rather than trimming the sides off. If your logo is a wide one, put it on a square canvas with space around it in any editor first, then convert that.
Large. Every size in the icon is made from the picture you give it, so a small starting image has to be stretched up to fill the biggest one and arrives looking coarse. Give it the largest square version you have and all the sizes come out clean.
For a website, in the root of the site as favicon.ico — most browsers look there by themselves, so often nothing else is needed. For a Windows program or a desktop shortcut, point the shortcut or the project at the file wherever you keep it.
Yes. Drop in as many as you like and each one comes back as its own .ico, with the batch arriving as a single .zip. Nothing is uploaded while it happens — the conversion runs on your own device.