Turn ICNS icons into PDF. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop ICNS files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
Ready · other file types work too0 bytes uploaded, ever
Drop ICNS files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. Open Options first if you want to change the defaults. The work happens in this tab.
Save the PDF, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The ICNS to PDF converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your icons are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
ICNS opens only on a Mac and in icon tools. PDF looks the same on every device and keeps several pages in one file. ICNS is at home in macOS application and folder icons; PDF is the usual choice for documents that must look the same everywhere, and printing.
Add several files and you can also combine them into a single PDF. The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can choose the page size.
If the icon file holds several sizes, the largest one is converted. Each picture becomes one page. The page can match the picture's own size or be A4 or US Letter; on paper the sheet turns to suit the picture, which is shrunk to fit inside the margins and never enlarged.
ICNS is the icon container of macOS. One file holds the same icon at many sizes, from 16 to 1024 pixels including Retina versions, each with transparency. Every Mac app carries one in its bundle.
Opens in macOS Preview and Finder, Xcode and icon editors; not browsers
ICNS converterPDF fixes a document's layout so it looks identical on every screen and printer. That makes it the default for forms, invoices and anything sent to print, and also what makes it awkward to edit.
Opens in Every browser, phone and computer
PDF converter| ICNSmacOS icon | PDFPDF document | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Apple Icon Image | Portable Document Format |
| Type | Raster image (icon) | Fixed-layout document |
| Compression | Lossless | Mixed: text is stored as text, images keep their own compression |
| Introduced | Around 2001, by Apple | 1993, by Adobe (an ISO standard since 2008) |
| Opens in | macOS Preview and Finder, Xcode and icon editors; not browsers | Every browser, phone and computer |
| Best for | macOS application and folder icons | Documents that must look the same everywhere, and printing |
| File extension | .icns | .pdf, .ai |
No. The ICNS to PDF conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
No visible change: the image is placed on a PDF page at its full resolution.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP. You can also merge them into a single PDF.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the ICNS file, press Convert and save the PDF. There is nothing to install.
Because nothing is uploaded, the practical limit is your device's memory. Very large files can fail on phones with little free memory; a computer copes better.