TAR.GZ converter

A .tar.gz lands in your downloads folder whenever you grab a source release or a server export. The converter below unpacks the gzip layer and the TAR layer inside your browser and repacks everything as a universally readable ZIP, with no upload step anywhere in the process.

What is TAR.GZ?

TAR.GZ (also seen as .tgz) is a TAR archive squeezed through gzip compression: the standard distribution format for source code, Linux packages and server-side exports. The two-step design means the whole archive is one compressed stream, which compresses well but cannot extract a single file without reading everything before it. Windows opens it only with third-party tools, which is the usual reason people need to convert one.