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Unix standard Archive format, Tape Archive
File type: Archive and compressed file
Files with tar extension may be most often found as compressed archives in Unix standard archive format.
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Date updated: July 19, 2025
File extension tar is commonly used for Unix standard archive file format.
A tar file contains multiple files stored as one archive created with the Unix tar program. These files are not automatically compressed, so they are often compressed with Gnu Zip (which creates a gz file).
A filename that ends in "tar.gz" is a TAR archive that has been compressed with Gnu Zip compression; sometimes the shortened tgz extension is used as well.
MIME types:
appliation/x-tar
application/x-tar
application/tar
applicaton/x-gtar
multipart/x-tar
application/x-compress
application/x-compressed
Standard file format supported by many archive programs.
Repack the files to another compression format.
Software applications that can open tar files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Google Android
Software applications that can edit tar files:
Linux/Unix
Software capable of saving tar files:
Linux/Unix
Software apps that create tar files:
Software apps that convert tar files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that extract tar files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Apple iOS
Google Android
Software apps that recover tar files:
Microsoft Windows
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