# MiniMax Converter

> The best file converter ever — 200+ formats, 100% offline, single binary install. Linux .deb, Windows .zip, macOS .dmg. Free for non-commercial use on Linux; €20 one-time lifetime license on Windows and macOS.

**Current version**: 1.34.0 (2026-05-24)
**Website**: https://minimax-converter.com
**Contact**: vlad@i-vlad.com

## What it does

MiniMax Converter is a cross-platform desktop file converter. It converts images, documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, presentations, audio, video, archives, ebooks, fonts, 3D meshes, GPS data, calendar/contact files, DICOM medical imaging, Apple iWork files, and Outlook mailboxes between 200+ file formats. It also includes AI-powered tools: Whisper-based speech-to-text transcription, U2Net background removal, Real-ESRGAN image upscaling, and a noise-reduction-plus-EQ audio restoration screen.

Everything runs **100% offline** on the user's computer — no files are uploaded to any server, no data is collected, no internet connection is required for conversions. AI model weights are downloaded once on first use and cached locally.

## Download

| Platform | File | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Linux (Ubuntu / Debian / Mint) | [minimax-converter_amd64.deb](https://minimax-converter.com/Download/minimax-converter_amd64.deb) | ~298 MB |
| Windows 10/11 (64-bit) | [MiniMax_Converter_x86_64.zip](https://minimax-converter.com/Download/MiniMax_Converter_x86_64.zip) | ~136 MB |
| macOS Apple Silicon | [MiniMax_Converter_arm64.dmg](https://minimax-converter.com/Download/MiniMax_Converter_arm64.dmg) | ~136 MB |
| macOS Intel | [MiniMax_Converter_x86_64.dmg](https://minimax-converter.com/Download/MiniMax_Converter_x86_64.dmg) | ~131 MB |

## Pricing

- **Linux**: free for non-commercial use. Commercial use requires the €20 license.
- **Windows**: €20 one-time lifetime license.
- **macOS**: €20 one-time lifetime license.
- **Payment**: Stripe. EUR or USD (adaptive currency).
- **License delivery**: emailed automatically after checkout.

No subscription, no recurring fees, no upgrade charges.

## What it converts

- **Images** (68 formats): PNG, JPG, WEBP, BMP, TIFF, GIF, SVG, HEIC, AVIF, ICO, PSD, EPS, AI, JP2, EXR, DJVU, DICOM, XCF, DPX, PCX, QOI, TGA, DDS, SGI, WPG, MNG, WBMP, FITS, plus 26 camera RAW formats (CR2, CR3, DNG, NEF, ARW, ORF, …).
- **Documents** (25+ formats): PDF, DOCX, DOC, ODT, RTF, TXT, HTML, EPUB, TEX, MD, IPYNB (Jupyter), RST, ADOC, TYP (Typst), FB2, OPML, ORG, WPD, HWP, VSD/VSDX, WPS, Apple iWork (.pages, .key, .numbers).
- **Email and mailboxes**: drop `.eml` or `.msg` files and pick `.pdf` / `.docx` / `.odt` — the body is rendered with proper Croatian / Polish / Cyrillic font support, attachments are embedded inside the document AND saved to a sibling `<filename>_attachments/` folder. Or pick **Extract** for body + attachments to a sibling folder. `.pst`, `.ost`, `.olm` mailbox archives also extract.
- **Ebooks**: EPUB ↔ MOBI ↔ AZW3 ↔ AZW ↔ FB2 ↔ PDF / DOCX / RTF / TXT / HTML via Calibre.
- **Subtitles**: SRT ↔ VTT ↔ ASS ↔ SSA ↔ SUB ↔ plain TXT.
- **3D meshes**: STL ↔ OBJ ↔ PLY ↔ GLB ↔ GLTF ↔ 3MF, plus PNG preview rendering.
- **Fonts**: TTF ↔ OTF ↔ WOFF ↔ WOFF2, plus subset + specimen-sheet PDF.
- **GPS data**: GPX ↔ KML ↔ KMZ ↔ GeoJSON ↔ CSV; Garmin TCX/FIT inputs.
- **Vector graphics**: SVG, EPS, AI, PSD plus Microsoft EMF/WMF via Inkscape.
- **Calendar / contacts**: ICS → CSV/JSON, VCF → CSV/JSON.
- **DICOM medical imaging**: .dcm/.acr/.ima → JPG/PNG/TIFF/PDF.
- **Apple Live Photos**: drop paired .heic + .mov, the motion side routes to video conversion.
- **Spreadsheets**: XLSX, XLS, CSV, ODS, JSON, XML.
- **Presentations**: PPTX, PPT, ODP, plus PDF → PPTX.
- **Audio** (25 inputs, 17 outputs): MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG, M4A, OPUS, WEBM, AAC, WMA, AIFF, AU, CAF, W64, AC3, WV, TTA, …. Drag a `.cue` sheet to split an album into per-track tagged outputs.
- **Video** (24 formats): MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, M4V, 3GP, TS, MPEG, VOB (DVD), M2TS (Blu-ray/AVCHD), OGV, F4V, RMVB, DV, MXF, SWF, ASF, animated GIF. Optional hardware H.264 encoding (NVENC / AMF / QSV / VAAPI / VideoToolbox).
- **Archives** (30+ formats): ZIP, 7Z, TAR, TAR.GZ / .BZ2 / .XZ, RAR (read), ISO, GZ, BZ2, XZ, DEB, RPM, CAB, ….

## Key features

- **Drag-and-drop**: drop one or more files, pick a format, done.
- **Mixed-file combine**: drop documents + images + PDFs together and merge them into a single PDF or PowerPoint.
- **Page arrangement**: reorder / rotate / delete pages before saving. Drop more files mid-arrange.
- **PDF tools**: merge, split, rotate, encrypt/decrypt, sign, watermark (add and remove), redact, crop, compress, metadata edit, grayscale, page numbering, extract images, OCR.
- **One-click Strip metadata** on every drop screen — wipes EXIF / IPTC / XMP / ID3 / GPS / author / company / created / modified with a single confirmation. Office Open XML and OpenDocument files get a zip-rewrite pass so internal docProps and meta.xml fields are cleared too.
- **Email drop screen**: drop `.eml` / `.msg` files and convert to PDF / DOCX / ODT with attachments embedded. Croatian / Polish / Cyrillic etc. render correctly (DejaVu Sans bundled). Or pick Extract for body + attachments to a folder.
- **URL download** (yt-dlp, 1800+ supported sites) with an explicit "Treat as playlist" checkbox (default off) — single-video is guaranteed even when a share link carries a stray `&list=…` parameter.
- **Audio Restore screen**: drop audio, pick a preset (cassette / vinyl / field recording / voice / custom), get a cleaned copy. noisereduce + pedalboard chain; voice mode optionally uses DeepFilterNet.
- **Subtitles & Lyrics** (Whisper, offline): drop a video → `.srt` sidecar; drop an audio file → lyrics `.txt` with verse breaks where pauses are long. Hardware-aware: Core ML on Apple Silicon, CUDA on NVIDIA, Vulkan on AMD/Intel, CPU elsewhere. 99 languages, auto-detect.
- **Parallel audio batch**: conversions run in parallel across CPU cores (leaving 2 free). Cancellable.
- **Folder drop with smart-dispatch**: walks the tree, classifies files by type, shows one button per non-empty category.
- **Background removal** (U2Net) — drop image, get transparent PNG.
- **AI image upscaling** (Real-ESRGAN) — 2× / 3× / 4×, photo or anime preset, GPU when available.
- **CUE sheet support**: drop a `.cue` to split an album into per-track tagged audio files, or convert as one.

## Tools menu — 90+ built-in tools across 9 submenus

Alphabetised; sorts by the *translated* label so the order tracks the current UI language.

1. **Analyze & Inspect** — Regex tester, Text statistics, File magic, Strings extract, Diff, Compare directories, Folder size, Duplicate finder, Aspect ratio, Age calculator, Tip calculator.
2. **Audio** (1.32.0 — top-level shortcuts to the Audio More screens) — Normalize, Trim, Mix (resizable table view with per-row key + waveform analysis, ID3-tag display, scrolling playback cursor, click-to-seek, queue + auto-crossfade, folder drop, Add-from-URL via yt-dlp), Fade, Pitch / Tempo (with key + BPM detection), FX chain (1.33.0 — dynamic rack of 15 effects with drag-to-reorder), Loudness analyzer, Channel manipulator, Reverse, Resample, Silence split, Waveform render, Vinyl declick, Cassette EQ, Info (spectrogram + transcode-detection), A/B compare (two synced waveforms + mute toggles), J-card template, Album metadata batch.
3. **Certificates** — Inspect (view info / check expiry / extract pubkey / compare fingerprints / fetch remote), Convert (PEM ↔ DER, PFX/P12 ↔ PEM bundle), Generate (CSR, self-signed), Verify chain, Local CA (mkcert-style).
4. **Convert & Format** — 3D meshes ›, Fonts › (convert / subset / specimen), Audio Restore, Base64, URL encoder, URL download (yt-dlp), Case converter, JSON formatter, SQL formatter, Measurements, Timestamp, Epoch batch.
5. **Create & Generate** — QR codes › (generator + WiFi / vCard / Email / Geo templates), Barcode, UUID, Color picker (eyedropper + palette extract), Lorem Ipsum, Random data, Slug.
6. **Files & Folders** — Bulk rename (12 modes, regex, preview, single-shot undo), Lock finder, Secure delete (1/3/7/35-pass), Watch folder.
7. **Network** — LAN discovery, DNS, TLS inspector, Public IP / ISP, HTTP headers, Wake-on-LAN, WHOIS, Local interfaces, Email headers, Port tester, HTTP file share, Common ports reference.
8. **Security & Cryptography** — Hash (MD5 / SHA-1 / SHA-256 / SHA-512), HMAC (9 algos), Password generator (live strength meter), Password hasher (bcrypt / argon2 / scrypt / PBKDF2 + 21 legacy), Keypair (RSA / EC / Ed25519 PEM), JWT (HS / RS / ES / PS / EdDSA), File encrypt / decrypt (AES-GCM, .mmcenc), Integrity monitor (folder SHA-256 snapshot), OTP / 2FA (password-protected secret store).
9. **System** — Crontab, Linux file permissions, Stopwatch / timer.

## Per-format More tools (~70 specialised tools across drop screens)

- **Audio More** — Normalize, Trim, Mix (multi-track listbox with queue, fade-in/out, auto-crossfade, drag-to-reorder), Fade, Pitch, Tempo, FX chain (reverb / echo / compressor / EQ), Loudness analyzer, Channel manipulator, Reverse, Resample, Silence split, Waveform render, Vinyl declick, Cassette EQ, Info (spectrogram + transcode-detection verdict), A/B compare, J-card template, Album metadata batch, Audiobook chapterize.
- **Video More** — Trim, Concat, GIF export, WebP export, Extract frame, Screenshots grid, Crop, Rotate, Watermark, Reverse, Speed change, Boomerang, Side-by-side, Burn subtitles, Color grade, Stabilization, Timelapse from photo folder, Slideshow.
- **Image More** — Strip-all metadata, Strip-GPS, EXIF rename, Geotag, Palette extract, ASCII art, Collage, Drop shadow, Vectorize, HDR merge, PNG → multi-resolution ICO, Lyric card, Album art template, Perspective correction, Annotate, Steganography hide/extract, Focus stack, Copy metadata, SVG optimise, PDF page → editable SVG.
- **Document More** (filters by file type) — OCR PDF, PDF tables → CSV, DOCX tables → CSV, PPTX text extract, Mail merge, Flatten DOCX changes, iCal viewer, vCard ↔ CSV, MSG → EML / attachments, MSG → PDF, Excel formula audit, DICOM viewer + PNG export, DOCX semantic diff.

## Why MiniMax

- **100% offline**: unlike CloudConvert / Zamzar, files never leave your machine. No account.
- **No subscription**: one-time payment for Windows/macOS; free forever on Linux. No recurring fees.
- **Single-binary install**: Windows is a `.zip` (extract and run). Linux is a `.deb` via apt. macOS is a `.app` in a DMG.
- **Cross-platform parity**: same feature set on all three platforms.
- **Privacy-first**: no telemetry, no analytics on file operations, no third-party cookies by default.
- **Languages**: 16 — English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Dutch, Hindi, Japanese, Turkish, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian.

## Related markdown

- [Help / User guide](https://minimax-converter.com/help/index.md)
- [Changelog](https://minimax-converter.com/changelog/index.md)
- [System requirements](https://minimax-converter.com/requirements/index.md)
- [LLM-optimised facts](https://minimax-converter.com/llms.txt) — short
- [LLM-optimised full reference](https://minimax-converter.com/llms-full.txt) — comprehensive