Archive Converter

Upload the archive, choose its current format under From and the format you want under To, then click Convert Archive. The converted archive is offered as a download.

You can convert ZIP to TAR or TAR.GZ, TAR to ZIP or TAR.GZ, and TAR.GZ to ZIP or TAR. Each pair also has its own page, such as ZIP to TAR.GZ.

Every regular file and folder is kept with its path, contents and modification date. Links, devices and other special entries are left out, because ZIP and TAR store them differently and they can point outside the archive.

The tool checks the file content against the format you chose. If a TAR.GZ is uploaded as ZIP, for example, you get a message asking you to choose the format that matches the file.

The upload can be at most 10 MB with at most 1,000 entries, and its files can be at most 50 MB in total once unpacked. Entries larger than 1 MB that expand more than 100 times are refused as possible archive bombs.

TAR in the USTAR format stores a path of up to 255 bytes, split into a folder part of 155 and a name part of 100 bytes. Paths that cannot be split that way are refused with a message naming the path.

Converted TAR archives give files mode 644 and folders mode 755. Executable flags from the source are not carried over, so set them again for scripts after unpacking.

ZIP output uses Deflate for uncompressed files and stores already compressed files such as images and videos as they are. TAR.GZ output is the TAR compressed with GZIP at level 6. Plain TAR output is not compressed.

No. Only ZIP, TAR and TAR.GZ are supported. Password-protected ZIP files and entries packed with methods other than Stored and Deflate cannot be converted either.

No. The archive is unpacked and repacked in memory for this request, and the converted file is returned to you directly.