Convert WebP to ICO

Include 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 and 256x256 and you have covered every context Windows and browsers ask for. A single ICO holds all of them, so the operating system picks the nearest match instead of resampling one size down and making it mushy. Start from a square WebP — anything else gets letterboxed or cropped.

No. The compression artefacts already baked into the WebP are ordinary pixel data now, and ICO preserves them perfectly rather than removing them. The file usually gets larger, sometimes several times larger. It is still worth doing before editing, because further edits will not stack a second generation of loss on top. ICO lets one file serve a taskbar, a file listing, a desktop shortcut and a browser tab without any of them looking resampled. WebP is still second-class outside the browser — print workflows, older Office builds and some phone galleries do not accept it.

By default yes, wherever the target has somewhere to put it — camera model, exposure settings, lens and GPS coordinates all carry across. GPS is the field worth thinking about: if the image is going to be published, use the strip-metadata option so you are not broadcasting where the photo was taken. WebP is Google’s 2010 image format, built from the VP8 keyframe encoder and intended to replace JPG, PNG and GIF at once.

Only the first frame survives, because ICO is a still format with nowhere to store the rest. If the animation matters, target a format that animates, or convert to a video container instead and keep the motion. ICO is not a general image format: it is square, small, and no photo editor treats it as a first-class working file.

Transparency survives when ICO is PNG, WebP, TIFF, GIF, or SVG. Converting to JPG flattens the alpha channel against a white background — if you need transparency, pick a transparency-aware target instead of ICO. ICO is the Windows icon format, and it is the only image format browsers will accept at /favicon.ico.

Embedded ICC colour profiles are read from the source WebP and re-attached to the ICO output where the format supports it (JPG, PNG, TIFF, WebP). Formats without profile support fall back to sRGB with a soft-proof step.

Camera EXIF (ISO, shutter, lens, GPS) is preserved by default during WebP -> ICO when both formats support metadata. Use the privacy toggle to strip metadata before download if you want to share images without geolocation or device-fingerprint exposure.

Yes — drag multiple WebP files into the upload zone and they queue in parallel. Free tier accepts 100 MB per file; Premium has no per-file cap and runs more parallel workers, so a 200-image batch typically finishes in under two minutes.

For straightforward format conversion we run the same libpng / libjpeg-turbo / libwebp / ImageMagick pipelines a desktop editor uses, at the same quality. The difference is that desktop tools open one file at a time; we accept a batch and run them in parallel on server-side workers.

Default behaviour is 1:1 — your ICO output has the same pixel dimensions as the source WebP. If you need to resize as part of the conversion, use /resize-image/ after, or chain the operations with the /image-pipeline/ utility.

For JPG / WebP, quality 75-85 typically yields an ICO 60-80% smaller than the WebP with no visible difference at normal viewing distance. For lossless ICO (PNG, TIFF), expect smaller savings — usually 5-30% via better deflate / LZW compression than the source already had.