Open a TAR File
View and Download a TAR Archive's Contents
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Common for source code releases and Linux backup bundles.
Drop an archive file, or click to browse
Processed locally in your browser — never uploaded
Uses a real 7-Zip build compiled to WebAssembly to read the TAR archive, entirely in your browser. Extracted files bundle into a ZIP for easy download.
Features
- Runs entirely in your browser
- Privacy-first — your data is never uploaded
- Real-time, instant results
- 100% free, no sign-up required
- Works on desktop, tablet, and mobile
- No installation needed
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About Open a TAR File
TAR archives are common on Linux and macOS for bundling files together (often before GZIP compression, as .tar.gz), but Windows and many casual tools have no built-in way to open one. This tool extracts a TAR archive's contents entirely in your browser using a real 7-Zip build compiled to WebAssembly, the same engine behind the desktop 7-Zip application.
Every file inside the archive is listed with its size once extraction completes, and all extracted files bundle together into a single ZIP for download — a more universally recognized format than leaving files loose, and convenient for grabbing everything in one file.
This handles standard uncompressed TAR archives — for a compressed .tar.gz file, decompress it first with the GZIP Extractor tool (or the Archive Format Converter), then extract the resulting .tar here.
Everything runs locally: the archive is read and extracted entirely inside your browser's WebAssembly sandbox, with nothing uploaded to a server.
How it works
- Upload your TAR file. Its contents are extracted automatically.
- Review the file list. See every extracted file's name and size.
- Download all as ZIP. Every extracted file bundled into one download.
Examples
Opening a Linux TAR archive on Windows
Input
backup.tar
Output
every contained file, downloadable as a ZIP