Extract text from Dictionary bundles (DICTIONARY)
To convert DICTIONARY Dictionaries to another format, you need Qubic or other Game software.
To convert other file formats to the "Game Data Files" file type, you need software like Qubic or a similar tool.
The .dictionary extension serves two distinct, technical purposes that often confuse users. Historically, it functions as a Qubic Game Move Database developed by Oren Patashnik, storing pre-calculated winning moves (3D Tic-Tac-Toe) in a specialized format. However, modern users most frequently encounter it as an Apple Dictionary Bundle - a directory masquerading as a file on macOS.
The primary friction with Apple Dictionary files is that they are not single files but Packages containing compiled binary data (typically Body.data inside the Contents folder). Standard text editors like Sublime Text or Notepad++ cannot open these bundles directly, and the internal binary format is proprietary to Apple. Users typically need to convert these bundles to XML or SQL to access the raw word lists and definitions for use in other applications, databases, or cross-platform projects like GoldenDict. For Qubic files, the challenge is legacy encoding; users convert them to TXT to view the move logic in a human-readable format.
Convert.Guru analyzes your DICTIONARY file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted MARKER, PG2, BITMAP, LIST and JSON files.
If you want to convert DICTIONARY file to LIST, JSON, DB, SQLITE, SQLITE3, MDB, ACCDB, DBF, ODB, FDB, GDB or MYD, you can use Qubic or similar software from the "Qubic Game Move Database" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert NDF, SQLITE3, BAK, RDB, SQL, DB4, MDF, MDB, LDF, DB, DB3 or SQLITE files to DICTIONARY, try Qubic or another comparable tool in the "Qubic Game Move Database" category.
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 DICTIONARY converter.