Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SBF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SBF to another file type
To convert your SBF file to another format, you need Sleek Bill or other Backup software.
Convert a file to SBF
To convert other file formats to the "Proprietary Archive" file type, you need software like Sleek Bill or a similar tool.
About SBF files
The .SBF extension is a classic example of a "filename collision," where multiple software vendors use the same three letters for entirely different purposes.
Backup Archives (Sprite & Sleek Bill): Historically, the most common use is by Sprite Backup (for mobile data) or Sleek Bill (for invoicing). These files serve as proprietary containers for critical user data - contacts, messages, or financial records. The Challenge: These files are often encrypted or compressed using non-standard algorithms. Users frequently find themselves locked out of their own data when moving to new hardware or different software, as standard tools like WinRAR or Excel cannot natively parse the internal structure.
Septentrio GNSS Data: In the geospatial industry, .SBF stands for Septentrio Binary Format. These files contain high-precision GPS/GNSS positioning data generated by Septentrio receivers. The Challenge: Being binary, they are unreadable by human eyes or standard text editors. Engineers often need to convert these to RINEX (Receiver Independent Exchange Format), CSV, or KML to visualize the path in Google Earth or analyze signal quality in third-party software.
Audio Presets (Spire): Music producers encounter .SBF files as sound banks for the Reveal Sound Spire synthesizer plugin. The Challenge: These are strictly proprietary; you cannot convert them to MP3 or WAV directly - they must be loaded into the plugin to generate sound.
Recommendation: For backup files, the goal is often extraction; converting to ZIP or PDF (for documents) allows universal access. For GNSS data, converting to RINEX or ASCII formats is essential for interoperability.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SBF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SBF file to DB, SQLITE, SQLITE3, MDB, ACCDB, DBF, ODB, FDB, GDB, MYD, FRM or SQL, you can use Sleek Bill or similar software from the "Application Data Backup" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert NDF, SQLITE3, BAK, RDB, SQL, DB4, MDF, MDB, LDF, DB, DB3 or SQLITE files to SBF, try Sleek Bill or another comparable tool in the "Application Data Backup" category.
The SBF 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 SBF converter.