Convert ICO to JPG
Convert ICO images to JPG free, in your browser. No upload, no account, no watermark.
Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.Change the format. Drop an image, a PDF or a Word document.
- JPG · PNG · WebP · Text · Word
- Word
- PDF · Text
Your files are processed by your own browser and never sent to a server. Open your browser's network tab and convert one, there is no upload to see.
How to convert ICO to JPG
- Drop your ICO files onto the box above, or paste them with Ctrl+V.
- Pick a quality. Around 90% is indistinguishable from the original for most images.
- Your browser does the work on your own machine.
- Save each file from its tile, or take them all at once.
What changes, and what does not
Transparency is lost
ICO can hold see-through pixels and JPG cannot. Anything transparent is filled with the colour you pick in the panel, white unless you change it. If you need the transparency, PNG, WebP and AVIF all keep it.
Detail is thrown away for the first time
ICO keeps every pixel exactly. JPG does not, and that is the point of it: the file gets far smaller because detail your eye is worst at noticing is discarded. Keep the original if you may need to edit it again.
Colour
ICO: up to 16.7 million with transparency, usually at very small sizes. JPG: 16.7 million, with no transparency at all.
ICO and JPG side by side
| ICO | JPG | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it came from | 1985, as the Windows icon format | 1992, from the Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| Throws detail away | No, every pixel is kept | Yes |
| Transparency | Yes | No |
| Animation | No | No |
| Where it opens | Windows and every browser, for favicons | Everywhere, on everything, including hardware old enough to vote |
| Best at | Favicons and Windows application icons, holding several sizes in one file | Photographs, and anything going somewhere you cannot predict |
How much smaller will the file be?
Expect a large drop. A photograph saved as ICO carries every pixel exactly, and JPG does not need to, so falls of eighty or ninety per cent are ordinary. A screenshot or a logo will fall much less, because ICO was already efficient at flat colour and hard edges, and may even grow.
Can I convert it back afterwards?
Not to the same file, no. Going to JPG discards detail permanently, and converting the result back to ICO gives you a ICO of the damaged picture rather than the original. Keep the original if there is any chance you will need to edit it again.
About ICO
The Windows icon format, usually holding several small sizes in one file.
About JPG
The safest choice: every device, upload form and printer accepts it.
Will the quality change?
JPG is lossy, so the image is decoded and re-encoded and a little detail is dropped. At high quality this is invisible. Convert once from your original rather than repeatedly, because each pass compounds.
What happens to transparency?
JPG cannot store it. Any transparent area is filled with the colour you choose in the panel, which defaults to white. If you need the transparency kept, convert to PNG, WebP or AVIF instead.
Other conversions
ICO also converts to PNG, WebP, AVIF, PDF and Word.
JPG also comes from HEIC, PNG, WebP, AVIF and GIF.