The Converter
Currency at the day's rate between about 160 currencies, plus measurements and data storage, converted as you type.
Header → Quick tools → Converter (Ctrl+Alt+U)
The Converter has three tabs: Currency, Measurements and Data storage. Open it from Quick tools in the header, or press Ctrl+Alt+U. Type an amount, pick the two units, and the answer appears as you type. The arrows between them swap the two.
The tabs
| Tab | What it converts |
|---|---|
| Currency | Between any two of the currencies in the day's exchange table, about 160. The US dollar, euro, British pound, Japanese yen and Canadian dollar come first. |
| Measurements | Length, mass, temperature, time, speed, volume and area, metric and imperial. |
| Data storage | Bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes, with three examples to start from: Photo export, Course backup and 1080p video (est.). |
Rules and limits
- Currency uses the day's exchange rate, the same table the marketplace uses to show prices in your currency. It is fetched once a day.
- If the day's rates cannot be fetched, Currency offers those 5, at a fixed rate, and says approximate rate under the answer. It does the same on pages outside the main app, and says today's rate otherwise.
- The Converter is for working things out. What you pay is the amount shown at checkout.
- Measurements has 4 units of most kinds. Length, for example, is metres, kilometres, feet and miles, with no centimetres or inches. Gallons and fluid ounces are US measures.
- Temperature converts between Celsius, Fahrenheit and kelvin.
- Data storage counts in 1,024s: 1 kilobyte is 1,024 bytes.
- An answer of 1 or more shows up to 4 decimal places, and a smaller one shows 6 significant figures.
Checked against the app on 17 October 2026. If something here no longer matches what you see, say so below.
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