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Convert your TAR files online. You can convert your TAR documents from any platform (Windows, Linux, macOS). No registration needed. Just drag and drop your TAR file on upload form, choose the desired output format and click convert button. Once conversion completed you can download your GZ file.
You even can perform more advanced conversions. For example you can convert password protected documents. Just expand LoadOptions and enter the password of your file. Or you can add a watermark to the converted GZ file. Expand the ConvertOptions and fill the fields for watermarking.
You can convert your TAR documents from anywhere, from any machine or even from a mobile device. The TAR converter is always available online and is completely free.
Files with .tar extension are archives created with Unix-based utility for collecting one or more files. Multiple files are stored in an uncompressed format with the support of adding files as well as folders to the archive. TAR utility on Unix is Command based, but files hence created are supported by most file archiving systems on almost all operating systems. It was created in 1979 by AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Read moreFiles with .gz extension are compressed files created with the gzip compression application. An archive file can contain multiple compressed files and is commonly used on UNIX and Linux systems. GZIP was introduced as a free utility for replacing the Compress program used in Unix systems. Such files can be opened and extracted with several applications such as WinZip which is available on both Windows and macOS.
Read moreYou can also convert TAR into many other file formats. Please see the complete list below.