Files Types Accepted
Image Files
.bmp
- Full Name: Bitmap Image
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Uncompressed raster graphics format.
.gif
- Full Name: Graphics Interchange Format
- Date Creation: 1987
- Creator Name: CompuServe
- Usage: Supports animation and short video clips.
.heic
- Full Name: High-Efficiency Image Container
- Date Creation: 2013
- Creator Name: Moving Picture Experts Group
- Usage: Used for storing images and image sequences.
.ico
- Full name: ICO Icon
- Creation Date: 1985
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Small image files used for icons.
.jpg .jpeg .jpe
- Full Name: JPEG Image
- Creator Name: Joint Photographic Experts Group
- Usage: Common format for digital photos
.png
- Full Name: Portable Network Graphics
- Date Creation: 1996
- Creator Name: PNG Development Group
- Usage: Lossless image format.
.tiff .tif
- Full Name: Tagged Image File Format
- Date Creation: 1986
- Creator Name: Aldus Corporation
- Usage: Common in publishing and photography.
.webp
- Full Name: WebP Image
- Date Creation: 2010
- Creator Name: Google
- Usage: Developed for web use, providing both lossy and lossless compression.
Video Files
.asf .asx
- Full Name: Advanced Systems Format
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Multimedia container format.
.avi
- Full Name: Audio Video Interleave
- Date Creation: 1992
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Multimedia container format.
.divx
- Full Name: DivX-Encoded Movie
- Date Creation: 1998
- Creator Name: DivX, Inc.
- Usage: Video compression format.
.flv
- Full Name: Flash Video
- Date Creation: 2002
- Creator Name: Adobe
- Usage: Commonly used for online streaming.
.m4v
- Full Name: iTunes Video File
- Creator Name: Apple
- Usage: Used for video files downloaded from the iTunes Store.
.mp4
- Full Name: MPEG-4 Video File
- Creator Name: Moving Picture Experts Group
- Usage: Standard video format.
.mov .qt
- Full Name: QuickTime Movie
- Date Creation: 1991
- Creator Name: Apple
- Usage: Multimedia container format.
.mpeg .mpg .mpe
- Full Name: MPEG Video
- Date Creation: 1993
- Creator Name: Moving Picture Experts Group
- Usage: Standard for video compression.
.ogv .webm .mkv
- Full Name: Open Media Framework
- Date Creation: 2007
- Creator Name: Xiph.Org Foundation
- Usage: Open-source container formats for multimedia.
.wmv .wmx .wm
- Full Name: Windows Media Video
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Video compression format.
.3gp .3gpp .3g2 .3gp2
- Full Name: 3GPP Multimedia Files
- Creator Name: 3rd Generation Partnership Project
- Usage: Commonly used for 3G mobile phones.
Text Files
.asc
- Full Name: ASCII Text File
- Creator Name: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- Usage: Plain text with ASCII character encoding.
.c .cc .h
- Full Name: C/C++ Source Code
- Creator Name: Dennis Ritchie (C language)
- Usage: Programming source code.
.css
- Full Name: Cascading Style Sheet
- Creator Name: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Usage: Stylesheet language for describing the look and formatting of a document.
.csv .tsv
- Full Name: Comma/Tab-Separated Values
- Usage: Spreadsheet or database data storage.
.htm, .html
- Full Name: Hypertext Markup Language
- Date Creation: 1991
- Creator Name: Tim Berners-Lee
- Usage: Standard markup language for creating web pages.
.ics .rtx
- Full Name: iCalendar/RTX Text File
- Creator Name: Internet Engineering Task Force (iCalendar)
- Usage: Calendar data interchange format.
.srt
- Full Name: SubRip Subtitle File
- Creator Name: SubRip
- Usage: Subtitle file format.
.txt
- Full Name: Plain Text File
- Usage: Simple text file format.
.vtt .dfxp
- Full Name: WebVTT/DFXP Subtitle File
- Creator Name: Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WebVTT)
- Usage: Subtitle file formats for HTML5 videos.
Audio Files
.aac
- Full Name: Advanced Audio Codec
- Date Creation: 1997
- Creator Name: MPEG, Dolby, Nokia, and others
- Usage: Commonly used for music streaming and high-quality audio.
.flac
- Full Name: Free Lossless Audio Codec
- Date Creation: 2001
- Creator Name: Xiph.Org Foundation
- Usage: Lossless compression for high-quality audio.
.m4a
- Full Name: MPEG-4 Audio
- Creator Name: Apple
- Usage: Used by Apple for audio files, often in iTunes.
.m4b
- Full Name: MPEG-4 Audio Book
- Creator Name: Apple
- Usage: Audio file format specifically designed for audiobooks.
.mid .midi
- Full Name: MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
- Date Creation: 1982
- Creator Name: Dave Smith and Ikutaro Kakehashi
- Usage: Standard for communicating musical information between devices.
.mka
- Full Name: Matroska Audio
- Date Creation: 2002
- Creator Name: Matroska
- Usage: Container format for audio files, supporting various audio codecs.
.mp3
- Full Name: MPEG Audio Layer III
- Date Creation: 1993
- Creator Name: Fraunhofer Society
- Usage: Common audio format for music and podcasts.
.ogg .oga
- Full Name: Ogg Vorbis Audio File
- Date Creation: 2000
- Creator Name: Xiph.Org Foundation
- Usage: Open-source, royalty-free audio compression format.
.ra .ram
- Full Name: RealAudio
- Date Creation: 1995
- Creator Name: RealNetworks
- Usage: Streaming audio format used for online radio and music.
.wav
- Full Name: Waveform Audio File Format
- Date Creation: 1991
- Creator Name: Microsoft and IBM
- Usage: Uncompressed audio format, suitable for high-quality recordings.
.wma .wax
- Full Name: Windows Media Audio
- Date Creation: 1999
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Compressed audio format often used in Windows Media Player.
Archive Files
.7z
- Full Name: 7-Zip Archive
- Date Creation: 1999
- Creator Name: Igor Pavlov
- Usage: Open-source format with high compression, suitable for various file types.
.gz .gzip
- Full Name: Gzip Compressed File
- Date Creation: 1992
- Creator Name: Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Adler
- Usage: Lossless compression, often used in Unix and Linux systems.
.rar
- Full Name: RAR Archive
- Date Creation: 1993
- Creator Name: Eugene Roshal
- Usage: Proprietary format with high compression, commonly used for large files compression and password protection/encryption.
.tar
- Full Name: Tape Archive
- Date Creation: 1979
- Creator Name: AT&T Bell Labs
- Usage: Concatenates files into a single archive, often used for compression and password protection/encryption..
.zip
- Full Name: ZIP Archive
- Date Creation: 1989
- Creator Name: Phil Katz
- Usage: Widely used for compression, archiving and password protection/encryption.
Graphic Design & 3D Files
.ogx .glb .gltf
- Full Name: 3D Model Files
- Creator Name: Khronos Group (glTF)
- Usage: Formats for 3D models and scenes.
.psd
- Full Name: Adobe Photoshop Document
- Date Creation: 1988
- Creator Name: Adobe
- Usage: Native file format for Adobe Photoshop.
.svg .svgz
- Full Name: Scalable Vector Graphics
- Date Creation: 1999
- Creator Name: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Usage: XML-based vector image format.
.xcf
- Full Name: GIMP Image File
- Creator Name: GIMP
- Usage: Native file format for GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program).
Document Files
.class
- Full Name: Java Class File
- Creator Name: Sun Microsystems
- Usage: Compiled Java bytecode.
.doc
- Full Name: Microsoft Word Document
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Standard document format for Microsoft Word before 2007.
.docx .docm
- Full Name: Microsoft Word Document
- Date Creation: 2007
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Standard document format for Microsoft Word after 2007 & Modern Word document format, supporting macros (docm).
.dotx .dotm
- Full Name: Microsoft Word Document
- Date Creation: 2007
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Template file for Word documents.
.mdb
- Full Name: Microsoft Access Database
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Database file format for Microsoft Access.
.mpp
- Full Name: Microsoft Project Document
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Project management document format for Microsoft Project.
- Full Name: Portable Document Format
- Date Creation: 1993
- Creator Name: Adobe
- Usage: Format used for Document Presentation standardized as ISO 32000-1 in 2008 and ISO 32000-2 in 2020.
.pot
- Full Name: Microsoft PowerPoint Template
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Template file for creating PowerPoint presentations.
.pps
- Full Name: Microsoft PowerPoint Slide Show
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Slide show presentation format for PowerPoint.
.ppt
- Full Name: Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Standard presentation format for Microsoft PowerPoint between version 1997 and 2007.
.pptx .pptm .ppsx .ppsm .potx .potm .ppam
- Full Name: Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation
- Date Creation: 2007
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Modern PowerPoint presentation format, supporting macros (pptm), add-ins (ppam) and more.
.rtf
- Full Name: Rich Text Format
- Date Creation: 1987
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Cross-platform document interchange.
.sldx .sldm
- Full Name: Microsoft XML PowerPoint Slide
- Date Creation: 2007
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Modern PowerPoint slide format, supporting macros (sldm).
.wri
- Full Name: Windows Write Document
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Document format used by Windows Write.
.xla
- Full Name: Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Standard spreadsheet format for Microsoft Excel.
.xls
- Full Name: Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
- Date Creation: 1987
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Template file for Excel documents before 2007.
.xlsx .xlsm .xlsb .xltx .xltm .xlam
- Full Name: Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
- Date Creation: 2007
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Template file for Excel documents after 2007.
.xlt
- Full Name: Microsoft Excel Template
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Template file for creating Excel spreadsheets.
.xlw
- Full Name: Microsoft Excel Workbook
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: Workbook file format used by Microsoft Excel.
Miscellaneous Files
.xml
- Full Name: Extensible Markup Language
- Date Creation: 1996
- Creator Name: Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Eve Maler, François Yergeau and John W. Cowan
- Usage: Markup language
.json
- Full Name: JavaScript Object Notation
- Date Creation: April 2001
- Creator Name: Douglas Crockford
- Usage: Lightweight data interchange format.
.key .numbers .pages
- Full Name: Apple iWork Files
- Creator Name: Apple
- Usage: Document formats for Apple’s iWork suite.
.odt .odp .ods .odg .odc .odb .odf
- Full Name: Open Document Format Files
- Date Creation: 2005
- Creator Name: OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)
- Usage: Standardized file formats for office applications.
.onetoc .onetoc2 .onetmp .onepkg
- Full Name: Microsoft OneNote Files
- Creator Name: Microsoft
- Usage: OneNote document and package files.
.oxps .xps
- Full Name: Open XML Paper Specification Files
- Date Creation: 2006
- Creator Name: Microsoft & Ecma International
- Usage: Document format that preserves document formatting and layout.
.wp .wpd
- Full Name: WordPerfect Document
- Creator Name: Corel
- Usage: Document format associated with WordPerfect.