Extract .tar Files Online

How to extract a tar file online (free)

1. Drop your .tar file onto the box above, or click to choose it.
2. The files inside are listed instantly — folder structure preserved in the file names.
3. Download files individually, grab them all, or repack everything into a .zip.

What's a tar file, anyway?

tar ("tape archive") is the Unix way of bundling many files into one while keeping paths and permissions intact. On its own it doesn't compress anything — which is why you mostly meet it as a compressed tarball like .tar.gz. This tool, powered by libarchive compiled to WebAssembly, opens both: plain tars directly, compressed ones by detecting gzip, bzip2 or xz automatically.

Handy for more than downloads

Plenty of developer artifacts are secretly tar files: docker save and docker export output, Kubernetes backups, CI build artifacts, even .deb package data streams. Drop one in to peek inside without touching a terminal.

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 archive is unpacked in memory, so the real limit is your device's available RAM.