Open Every File
Drop any file. Find out what it really is, look inside it, and learn what opens it.
What you get for every file
- A name. The page reads the first bytes of the file, so it knows a PNG is a PNG even when the file is called something else, or has no ending at all.
- A look inside. Pictures, PDFs, Photoshop files, sound, video, fonts and text are shown. ZIP, TAR and GZ archives are listed and each file inside can be opened in turn. Word, Excel and PowerPoint files show their words and values. E-books can be read. Saved emails show the message and its attachments. Calendar files show their events. Torrent files show what they would download.
- A straight answer on what opens it. Real programs, with free ones marked.
- A warning when the name lies. A program that calls itself a document gets flagged.
What this page cannot do yet
- It does not unpack RAR or 7z archives. It names them and says what does.
- Office files show words and values only, not layout or pictures.
- Some kinds are named but not shown, such as camera raw photos, old Word .doc files and 3D models. For those you still get the name, what opens it, and any readable text inside.
- A file it has never seen gets no name. You still get the readable text and the raw bytes.
- It cannot say whether a file is safe. It tells you what a file is, which is not the same thing.