What is the difference between .icns and .bmp?
- Extension
- .icns
- .bmp
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Apple
- Microsoft
- Description
- It is an icon image file used to show application icons in the macOS Finder and macOS dock. It contains one or several .PNG images and it supports 1bit and 8-bit alpha channels.
- A BMP file is an uncompressed raster image comprised of a rectangular grid of pixels. It contains a file header (bitmap identifier, file size, width, height, color options, and bitmap data starting point) and bitmap pixels, each with a different color.
- MIME Type
- image/x-icns
- image/bmp
- Sample
- sample.bmp
- Wikipedia
- .icns on Wikipedia
- .bmp on Wikipedia