Gz Converter
Convert to Gz format online, for free.
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How to Convert to Gz?
- Click the “Choose Files” button to select your files.
- Convert to Gz by clicking the "Convert" button
- Once the conversion finishes, click the "Download Gz" button to save the file.
Convert Any File
FreeConvert supports 500+ file formats. Simply upload your files and convert them to Gz format. Alternatively, you can upload Gz files and convert them to a different format. All from the convenience of one tool!
Best Quality
We use both open source and custom software to make sure our conversions are of the highest quality. In most cases, you can fine-tune conversion parameters using “Advanced Settings” (optional).
Free & Secure
Our Gz converter is free and works on any web browser. We guarantee file security and privacy. Files are protected with 256-bit SSL encryption and automatically deleted after 8 hours.
Gzip (GZ) is a compression format built on the DEFLATE algorithm and created as a free replacement for the patent-encumbered compress utility. A key point often missed is that gzip compresses a single file — it is not an archive format and cannot hold a folder on its own. That is why it is normally combined with TAR to produce .tar.gz. Gzip is also what web servers use to compress pages before sending them to your browser.
How to open a GZ file?
On Linux and macOS, run gunzip file.gz in a terminal, or double-click the file in your desktop environment to decompress it in place.
On Windows, use 7-Zip, WinRAR, or PeaZip — all of them recognise GZ. If the file is really a .tar.gz, you may have to extract it twice: once to unwrap the gzip layer and once more to unpack the TAR inside. You can also convert the file with our GZ to ZIP tool.
Developed by: Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler, GNU Project
Initial Release: 1992
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