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GZIP compressed archive
File type: Archive and compressed file
Files with gz extension are archives saved in the GZIP (GNU ZIP) compression archive format.
Found 2 different file type records with the same gz filename suffix.
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Date updated: July 19, 2025
File extension gz is used for GNU GZIP compressed archives, a standard archive format used on Unix/Linux based computers.
There are several versions of this format, but the original was based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding. It was first introduced in 1993.
MIME types:
application/x-compressed
application/x-gzip
Nowadays most modern compression utilities are able to open and extract *.gz files.
The easiest way how to convert *.gz files is to extract them and compress them again to another format such as RAR.
Software applications that can open gz files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Google Android
Software apps that create gz files:
Linux/Unix
Software apps that convert gz files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that import gz files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Software apps that extract gz files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Apple iOS
Google Android
File type category:
Graphics file
Date updated: July 7, 2017
The gz file extension is used by GIMP (GNU Image Manipilation Program) for created graphic images and projects. It is a freeware software that use this gz file extension to store created graphics files.
Software applications that can open gz files:
Software applications that can edit gz files:
Software capable of saving gz files:
Software apps that print gz files:
Software applications that handle other tasks involving gz files:
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