Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your IG file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert IG to another file type
To convert IG images or data to another format, you need Adobe Photoshop or other Raster Image software.
Convert a file to IG
To convert other file formats to the "Downloaded Social Media Image" file type, you need software like Adobe Photoshop or a similar tool.
About IG files
The .ig file extension is heavily overloaded and used for multiple entirely different formats. Most commonly, it represents an Instagram Image, which is actually just a standard PNG or JPG file downloaded from the platform and saved with a custom extension by certain browser extensions or downloader scripts. Another significant use case is the CERN iSpy Event Display format, where the .ig file is a renamed ZIP archive containing high-energy physics event data used by the ROOT framework. It is also occasionally used as a FreeArc compressed archive or a generic script configuration file. The main disadvantage of .ig files is that standard operating systems do not know how to open them. A Windows or Mac machine will fail to open an .ig image without manual intervention because the file extension does not match the internal MIME type. Users need to convert or rename these files to standard targets like JPG, PNG, or ZIP to restore normal compatibility. Standard online converters often fail to process .ig files because they rely solely on the extension rather than inspecting the file header. Drag and drop your file to see what it is and convert it if supported. convert.guru will analyze the file signature to determine if it is an image, a ZIP archive, or raw text, helping you extract data from files that are otherwise unreadable.
Convert.Guru analyzes your IG file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert IG file to MP4, MP3, JPG, PDF, GIF, DWG, DXF, DGN, RVT, RFA, SKP or 3DM, you can use Adobe Photoshop or similar software from the "Instagram Image or Archived Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SLDASM, DGN, PRT, IAM, X_B, CATPRODUCT, SLDPRT, RVT, ASM, DWG, CATPART or DXF files to IG, try Adobe Photoshop or another comparable tool in the "Instagram Image or Archived Data" category.
The IG 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 IG converter.