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Portable Network Graphic file
File type: Internet related file, Bitmap image file
Files with png extensions are commonly used for Portable Network Graphic files. PNG is a bitmap image mainly used on web pages.
Found 3 different file type records with the same png filename suffix.
File type category:
Internet related file
Bitmap image file
Date updated: July 14, 2025
File extension png is commonly used for Portable Network Graphics file format images.
PNG is a bitmap graphics format similar to GIF that uses image compression mainly for web purposes. PNG is a lossless format with 16.7 million colors, index color, grayscale, true color, and transparency, and it also is streamable, which makes it superior to GIF.
The WWW consortium approved the format as a standard to replace GIF because GIF uses a patented data compression algorithm called LZW. In contrast, PNG is entirely patent- and license-free.
Initially, only Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer supported PNG file format, but today every web browser can read the format correctly.
Some games also use this format to store images. For example, the Spore computer game saves its creature's images for Sporepedia in PNG format.
png MIME types:
image/png
image/x-png
application/png
application/x-png
Use any graphic editor/viewer to open or view *.png files.
PNG format is widely supported, and you can use almost any (if not any) image convertor to convert .png files to another file format.
Software applications that can open png files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Multiplatform
Software applications that can edit png files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Multiplatform
Software capable of saving png files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Multiplatform
Programs for viewing png files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Multiplatform
Software apps that create png files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Software apps that convert png files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
On-line services
Software apps that import png files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Multiplatform
Software apps that export png files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Multiplatform
Software apps that print png files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Multiplatform
Software applications that handle other tasks involving png files:
Microsoft Windows
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File type category:
Bitmap image file
Date updated: March 29, 2018
The png file extension is associated with the Adobe Fireworks.
Firework's PNGs are based on the Portable Network Graphic (PNG) format, but contain additional proprietary metadata which only Adobe applications can read.
This version of PNG is solely opened only in Adobe Fireworks.
Use Adobe Fireworks to open its proprietary version of *.png images.
Adobe Fireworks can probably save or export its own PNG format to something else.
Software applications that can open png files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Software applications that can edit png files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Software capable of saving png files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Software apps that import png files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: July 14, 2025
The png file extension is associated with Corel Paint Shop Pro, an advanced photo-editing software available for Microsoft Windows, developed and sold by Corel Corporation.
The *.png files contain browser catalogs.
Use compatible tools to work with *.png files.
Software applications that can open png files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create png files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving png files:
Microsoft Windows
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