Tar to Zip Converter
Convert Tar to Zip online, for free.
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How to Convert Tar to Zip?
- Click the “Choose Files” button to select your Tar files.
- Click the “Convert to Zip” button to start the conversion.
- When the status change to “Done” click the “Download Zip” button
Easy to Use
Simply upload your Tar files and click the convert button. You can also batch convert Tar to Zip format.
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, look for the icon).
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Our Tar to Zip 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.
Tape Archive (TAR) is a Unix format that joins many files and folders into one file while preserving their directory structure, permissions, ownership, and timestamps. Importantly, TAR does not compress anything — it only bundles. That is why TAR files are so often paired with a separate compressor, producing the familiar .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .tar.xz combinations. TAR remains the standard way to distribute source code and back up Linux systems.
How to open a TAR file?
On Linux and macOS, the built-in tar command does the job: run tar -xf archive.tar in a terminal, or simply double-click the file in the desktop file manager.
Windows 11 can extract TAR from File Explorer and from the command line. For older versions, use 7-Zip, WinRAR, or PeaZip. Since a plain TAR is uncompressed, it is the same size as its contents — compress it to .tar.gz before sending it anywhere. You can also convert the file with our TAR to ZIP tool.
Developed by: Bell Labs (Unix)
Initial Release: 1979
ZIP is the most widely used archive format in the world. It bundles any number of files and folders into a single container and compresses them, usually with the DEFLATE algorithm. Compression is lossless, so everything extracts exactly as it went in. Each file inside is compressed separately, which means a damaged archive can often still yield its undamaged members, and individual files can be read without unpacking the whole thing.
How to open a Zip file?
No extra software is needed on any modern system. On Windows, right-click the file and choose Extract All; on macOS, double-click it and Archive Utility unpacks it automatically.
For password-protected or very large archives, dedicated tools work better: 7-Zip on Windows, WinRAR and WinZip as long-standing alternatives, and The Unarchiver on macOS. On Linux, the unzip command handles it in one step.
Developed by: Phil Katz, PKWARE
Initial Release: 1989
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