Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your UI file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert UI to another file type
To convert UI interfaces to another format, you need Qt Designer or other Developer software.
Convert a file to UI
To convert other file formats to the "XML Layout File" file type, you need software like Qt Designer or a similar tool.
About UI files
The .UI file extension is primarily used by Qt Designer to store graphical user interface layouts. These files are saved in plain XML format. They map out widgets, forms, and layouts for cross-platform desktop applications. The main disadvantage of a .UI file is that it is not an executable application. It is strictly a blueprint. You cannot run it directly. Developers must compile or convert it into programming code like C++ or Python to make it functional. This requires setting up the full Qt framework, which is heavy and complex for non-developers. Other software like PTC Creo and game engines like Angelica 3D or Cocos2d-x also use .UI files for layout definitions. Sometimes, .UI files are actually ZIP archives used as skin packages for 360 Total Security, or even image screenshots in the game Ark: Survival Evolved. For development use, convert to PY (Python) or CPP (C++). For reading the raw structure, convert to XML. If it is a skin package, convert to ZIP to extract the images.
Convert.Guru analyzes your UI file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert UI file to PY, MG, CODE, PYTHON, JS, TS, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP or RB, you can use Qt Designer or similar software from the "Graphical Interface Layout Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to UI, try Qt Designer or another comparable tool in the "Graphical Interface Layout Storage" category.
The UI 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 UI converter.