About Legacy File Converter

The problem with old files

A WordPerfect brief from 1998. A Lotus 1-2-3 budget. A Quattro Pro notebook full of a small business's books. A Microsoft Works letter. A folder of iPhone HEIC photos Windows won't preview. Each one was created in software that is now discontinued or incompatible — and each one needs a different, often-impossible-to-find application just to open.

That is a losing battle, and a real risk for anyone who needs to keep records readable for years: lawyers, accountants, archivists, researchers, and families alike. Every Windows upgrade is a quiet gamble on whether those files will still open at all.

What Legacy File Converter does

Legacy File Converter is a single Windows desktop app that opens an enormous range of legacy and modern file types and converts them to formats you can actually use today. Old word processors become DOCX or PDF, old spreadsheets become XLSX or CSV, presentations become PPTX, and images become JPG, PNG, or PDF. Anything can also be exported to a universal PDF, Markdown, or HTML.

It recognizes each file by its family — and even by its actual contents when the extension is wrong or missing — so you don't have to know what a file is to convert it. It plugs into Windows Explorer for right-click conversion, handles whole folders at once, and can watch a folder to convert new files automatically.

Private by design

Every conversion happens entirely on your computer. There are no uploads, no accounts, and no servers involved — Legacy File Converter works on a machine with no internet connection at all. For confidential and regulated work, that means your files are never exposed to a third party.

Built on a proven foundation

Legacy File Converter grew out of a family of focused single-format converters for WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and Quattro Pro. It brings all of those capabilities — plus image conversion — together into one tool, so you only need a single app for every old file you come across.