Extract .tar.gz Files Online

How to extract a tar.gz file online (free)

1. Drop your .tar.gz or .tgz file onto the box above, or click to choose it.
2. The tarball is decompressed and unpacked in one step — no waiting for an upload.
3. Download files individually, grab them all, or repack everything into a .zip.

Tarballs, without the command line

A .tar.gz is the standard bundle format of the Linux world — source code releases, server backups, npm packages. On Windows or macOS, opening one usually means the terminal (tar -xzf) or installing an archive manager. This tool does it in the browser instead: powered by libarchive compiled to WebAssembly, it decompresses the gzip layer and unpacks the tar in a single step.

One step, not two

Some desktop tools make you extract the .gz into a .tar, then open the .tar separately. Here that's automatic — and it works the same for .tar.bz2 and .tar.xz, since bzip2 and xz compression are detected from the file contents, not the file name.

Is it really private?

Yes. There is no upload step and no account. Open your browser's network tab and watch: no request carries your file data. The tool works offline once the page has loaded.

Is there a size limit?

There's no artificial cap. The tarball is unpacked in memory, so the real limit is your device's available RAM.