Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PROPERTIES file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PROPERTIES to another file type
To convert PROPERTIES settings to another format, you need Java or other Settings software.
Convert a file to PROPERTIES
To convert other file formats to the "Java Configuration File" file type, you need software like Java or a similar tool.
About PROPERTIES files
The .properties file is a standard text-based configuration format used to store application parameters as key-value pairs. It is heavily utilized within the Java ecosystem, in Android library dependencies like Firebase, and for multiplayer gaming environments, most notably the Minecraft server configuration file. Because it is plain text, you can open it in any basic text editor or standard IDEs like Android Studio and NetBeans. However, the .properties format has severe practical limitations. It is an entirely flat format, meaning it cannot handle hierarchical data or nested arrays. Furthermore, legacy Java environments restrict these files to ISO-8859-1 encoding, which breaks non-Latin characters unless they are manually escaped using Unicode values. This makes managing large localization files highly error-prone. To overcome these limitations, you should convert your file. For modern web applications and API integrations, convert to JSON. For DevOps automation and container configuration, convert to YAML. For legacy system compatibility, convert to XML. If you need to manage hundreds of translation keys, converting to CSV allows bulk editing in a spreadsheet. Drag and drop your file to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PROPERTIES file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PROPERTIES file to YAML, JSON, MAP, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, XML, YML, TOML, ENV or RC, you can use Java 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, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to PROPERTIES, try Java or another comparable tool in the "Configuration Settings Storage" category.
The PROPERTIES 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 PROPERTIES converter.