Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PLIST file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PLIST to another file type
To convert PLIST Property lists to another format, you need Apple Xcode or other Settings software.
Convert a file to PLIST
To convert other file formats to the "Property List File" file type, you need software like Apple Xcode or a similar tool.
About PLIST files
A .PLIST file is a Property List file used primarily by macOS, iOS, and other Apple systems to store user preferences, application settings, and system configurations. Developers and power users typically open these files using Apple Xcode or the built-in macOS Property List Editor. You can read more about the architecture on the Wikipedia Property list page. Working with .PLIST files outside of the Apple ecosystem is highly frustrating. Modern .PLIST files are usually compiled into a proprietary binary format to save disk space and improve load times. Because of this, they are completely unreadable in standard text editors like Windows Notepad. If you are on Windows or Linux, you cannot natively open binary .PLIST files without installing third-party developer tools or running command-line scripts. Even when formatted as plain XML, the strict tag structure makes them difficult to read quickly. To overcome these limitations, you should convert the file. For cross-platform editing, web development, or data extraction, convert .PLIST to .JSON or .XML. For simple archiving and reading, convert to .TXT. Drop your file here to view and convert it securely right in your browser.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PLIST file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PLIST file to XML, JSON, MOBILECONFIG, CSV, JPG, YAML, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, YML or TOML, you can use Apple Xcode or similar software from the "Configuration Settings Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS, CFG or PROPERTIES files to PLIST, try Apple Xcode or another comparable tool in the "Configuration Settings Storage" category.
The PLIST 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 PLIST converter.