CUR to PNG Converter

What happens when you convert CUR to PNG

• The image is decoded and written as a lossless 32-bit PNG.

How to convert CUR to PNG online

1. Press "Choose CUR files" and select one or more files, or drag them onto the box. You can add files of any size your device can hold in memory.
2. Adjust the settings if you need to. The output is lossless, so there is no quality setting to worry about.
3. Press "Convert to PNG". Images convert in a second or two each.
4. Save each PNG with its download button. Close the tab and every trace of the files is gone from memory.

Why convert CUR to PNG?

CUR files usually come from custom mouse pointers for Windows and for websites. People convert them to PNG because PNG keeps sharp edges, text and transparency without any loss.

In short, CUR is good at what it was made for, and PNG is the more practical choice when the file has to open, upload or print somewhere else. CUR used by Windows as a mouse pointer; browsers accept it in the CSS cursor property, while PNG opens in every browser and image viewer.

How to convert CUR to PNG on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android

On Windows

Open this page in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, drag your CUR files in from File Explorer, and press Convert. Each PNG is saved to your Downloads folder. Paint can also re-save an image as PNG with Save as, provided Windows can open the CUR in the first place.

On a Mac

Safari, Chrome and Firefox all work. Drag the CUR files from Finder onto the drop zone and the PNG files land in Downloads. Preview can do single images too: open the file, choose File, then Export, and pick PNG.

On iPhone and iPad

Open the page in Safari and tap Choose CUR files. You can pick from Photos or from the Files app. The converted PNG appears in Files, in the Downloads folder; to put it in your photo library, open it there, tap Share and choose Save Image.

On Android

Open the page in Chrome, tap Choose CUR files and pick them from Files or your gallery. The PNG is saved to the Download folder, where any file manager can find it.

Best settings for CUR to PNG

PNG is written losslessly, so there is no quality setting to get wrong. The Maximum width setting is there if you need a smaller image: it scales down before saving and never scales up.

CUR vs PNG: the differences

About CUR and PNG files

What is a CUR file?

A CUR file is built like an ICO icon, with one addition: a hotspot, the exact pixel that does the clicking. Windows reads cursors from CUR files, and web pages can use them through the CSS cursor property.

What is a PNG file?

PNG compresses without losing a single pixel, so screenshots and text stay razor sharp, but a photograph saved as PNG is often three to five times the size of the same photo as JPG.

CUR to PNG not working? Common problems

• Colours look slightly different. Browsers convert images to the standard sRGB colour space when they decode them, so wide-gamut and CMYK images can shift a little.
• A phone photo comes out upright even though it looked sideways elsewhere. That is correct: the rotation stored in the photo is applied during conversion, so the PNG is always the right way up.
• The file is bigger than expected. It depends on the settings. At the defaults, the PNG usually comes out close in size to the CUR; lower the quality for a smaller file.

Convert CUR to PNG from the command line

If you work in a terminal, ImageMagick converts CUR to PNG in one line:

magick input.cur output.png

To convert every CUR in a folder at once, use magick mogrify -format png *.cur. The converter on this page does the same job without installing anything.