Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your QVF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert QVF to another file type
To convert QVF apps to another format, you need Qlik Sense or other Data software.
Convert a file to QVF
To convert other file formats to the "Business Intelligence App File" file type, you need software like Qlik Sense or a similar tool.
About QVF files
A .QVF file is a proprietary data and visualization application created by Qlik Sense, a popular business intelligence platform. It bundles an in-memory data model, database connection scripts, and interactive dashboard UI elements into a single file. The file is designed exclusively for the Qlik Sense ecosystem. The primary disadvantage of the .QVF format is its closed, proprietary nature. It requires expensive software licenses to open. Business users often need to share the underlying data with people who do not have access to Qlik, making the file effectively useless to outsiders. Standard tools cannot read its specialized QIX engine architecture, and files can exceed gigabytes in size because they store raw dataset caches. Users typically want to convert the dashboard data into CSV or XLSX formats for spreadsheet analysis, or export visual reports as PDF files. Exporting raw data usually strips away the interactive drill-down capabilities of the original dashboard. Because this is a highly proprietary database format, standard online converters fail to process it.
Convert.Guru analyzes your QVF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert QVF file to QVW, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use Qlik Sense or similar software from the "Business Intelligence Dashboard" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to QVF, try Qlik Sense or another comparable tool in the "Business Intelligence Dashboard" category.
The QVF 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 QVF converter.