Extract .tar.xz Files Online

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

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

xz tarballs, without the command line

A .tar.xz bundles files with tar and squeezes them with xz (LZMA2), which usually beats gzip on size. It is common for source-code releases, kernel archives and large Linux packages. On Windows or macOS, opening one normally means the terminal (tar -xJf) or a third-party archive manager. This tool does it in the browser instead: powered by libarchive compiled to WebAssembly, it handles the xz layer and the tar together in a single step.

One step, not two

Some desktop tools make you decompress the .xz into a .tar, then open the .tar separately. Here that's automatic — and it works the same for .tar.gz and .tar.bz2, since the compression is 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.