ICONSET Converter

Extract text from Mac icon sets (ICONSET)


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

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

Convert ICONSET to another file type

To convert ICONSET icon sets to another format, you need Xcode or other Developer software.

Convert a file to ICONSET

To convert other file formats to the "macOS Icon Folder" file type, you need software like Xcode or a similar tool.


About ICONSET files

An .iconset file is a macOS folder structure that developers use to store high-resolution PNG images. These images represent an application icon at different pixel dimensions, ranging from 16x16 to 512x512 pixels. Apple's Xcode and the built-in iconutil Terminal command are used to compile these folders into the Apple Icon Image format. The primary disadvantage of the .iconset format is that it is not actually a single file. It is a proprietary folder bundle specific to macOS. This makes it useless on Windows or Linux machines, which treat it merely as a standard folder of loose images. It requires manual command-line execution or specific Apple developer tools to compile into a usable icon. You usually need to convert an .iconset into a compiled ICNS file for macOS applications or an ICO file for Windows. Because this format is a folder structure rather than a flat file, standard online converters fail to process it. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert ICONSET file to JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB, GO, RS or SWIFT, you can use Xcode or similar software from the "macOS App Icon Generation" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to ICONSET, try Xcode or another comparable tool in the "macOS App Icon Generation" category.



The ICONSET 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 ICONSET converter.