ALM Converter

Extract text from Alicesoft video files (ALM)


Drop or upload your .ALM file
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How to extract text from your ALM file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ALM file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert ALM to another file type

To convert ALM videos to another format, you need AliceSoft Game Engine or other Video software.

Convert a file to ALM

To convert other file formats to the "Game Multimedia Archive" file type, you need software like AliceSoft Game Engine or a similar tool.


About ALM files

The .alm file extension is highly fragmented, meaning it serves entirely different purposes depending on the software that created it. Primarily, it functions as an Alicesoft Movie File, storing proprietary game music and animation for visual novels developed by AliceSoft, or as an MKV-based WebM video file for games by the developer Favorite. In professional contexts, it serves as an XML-based license key for Siemens Automation License Manager, a GPS satellite almanac data file in YUMA format, or a UTF-8 text file storing configurations for Free Alarm Clock. The major disadvantage of the .alm format is this extreme ambiguity. Without inspecting the file headers, users have no idea if they are dealing with a proprietary binary game archive, a playable video, or plain text. Furthermore, proprietary .alm files are unsupported by standard operating systems, web browsers, and media players, often requiring the original software to open them. Standard online converters fail to process .alm files because they rely on predictable file headers and immediately reject unrecognized, proprietary game assets. If your file is a renamed video container, the best conversion targets are MP4 or MKV for universal playback. For GPS data, converting to GPX using tools like GPSBabel is the pragmatic choice. Our system bypasses the extension, inspects the actual file signature, and allows you to view internal text data or extract embedded multimedia content whenever a recognized format is detected.

Convert.Guru analyzes your ALM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert ALM file to , you can use AliceSoft Game Engine or similar software from the "Game Video & Animation Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to ALM, try AliceSoft Game Engine or another comparable tool in the "Game Video & Animation Archive" category.



The ALM Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ALM converter.