BriskFile

Convert ICO to JPG

Drop your ICO files below. They are converted on your own device and never sent anywhere.

Convert to JPEG when you need a favicon or Windows icon as a plain image and the destination does not accept .ico files. It is converted by your own browser here, so the file is never uploaded.

Nothing is uploaded. Your files are read by this page and processed by your own processor. Open the Network tab and watch — you will not see them leave.

ICO and JPEG, and why you would move between them

An .ico file is a container built for Windows icons and browser favicons, and it holds several images at once — typically 16, 32 and 48 pixels square, sometimes up to 256. Converting one to JPEG is usually about extracting a site's favicon as an ordinary image for a document, a slide deck or a report.

The thing to understand before converting is that "the icon" is not a single image, and JPEG can hold only one. BriskFile takes the largest image in the file, which is the most useful choice and the one that keeps the most detail — but it means the result is only as large as the biggest image the icon actually contains.

Things that catch people out

  • The largest image in the file is the one converted. If the icon only contains 16 and 32 pixel versions, the JPEG will be 32 pixels square — no conversion can add detail that was never in the file.
  • JPEG has no transparency, and icons are almost always transparent. The transparent area is composited against a background colour, which usually looks wrong against anything other than that same colour. PNG is the better target for this reason alone.
  • JPEG compression is bad at the hard edges and flat colour that icons are made of, and at 32 pixels square the artefacts are a large fraction of the image.
  • Icons are tiny by design. Enlarging one afterwards produces a blurry or blocky result, because the detail was never captured.

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Questions

Why is my converted icon so small?

Because icons are stored small. A typical favicon.ico holds images of 16, 32 and 48 pixels; the largest of those is what you get. There is nothing bigger inside the file to extract.

Should I convert an icon to JPEG or PNG?

PNG, almost always. It keeps transparency, which icons rely on, and it is lossless, which matters at these sizes where JPEG artefacts are proportionally huge.

What BriskFile will not do to you

  • Your files never leave your device

    Every conversion runs in your browser. Open DevTools, watch the Network tab, and you will see no upload — because there is not one.

  • No account, no email, no watermark

    Nothing to sign up for and nothing stamped on your images. There is no step between choosing a file and getting it back.

  • No limits at the download button

    No daily cap, no file counter, no "upgrade to download". If the tool starts a job, it finishes it.

  • Checkable, not just claimed

    Open the Network tab and convert something — nothing goes out. Or load the page, disconnect, and watch it keep working: the tool is already on your machine, and your file never leaves it.