You can simply repack TAR archives to ZIP format when you decompress the original and compress it to the new format.
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Conversion of tar file format to zip file format beta
Search for tar to zip converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert Unix standard Archive format, Tape Archive to Compressed ZIP archive.
We have found 8 software records in our database eligible for .tar to .zip file format conversion.
Microsoft Windows software 
- convert tar to zip on Windows
WinZip
Popular file archiver for Windows
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from tar file | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
to zip file | No | Yes | Yes | zip editor | Yes | No | No | Yes |
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned tar to zip. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
WinRAR
One of the oldest and most popular shareware file archiver and data compression utility
7-zip
Popular open source file archiver with a high compression ratio
PeaZip
A free open source archive utility
FilZip
A freeware file compression tool
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert tar to zip on OS X
Zipeg for Mac
A mac version of a free file archiver
StuffIt for Mac
Mac version of the popular utility
Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile software 
- convert tar to zip on Windows Phone
Archiver for Windows Phone
A compression tool for Windows Phone
Additional links: Open tar file, Open zip file
TAR
Files with tar extension may be most often found as compressed archives in Unix standard archive format.
ZIP
Files with zip is associated with the WinZip compression tool. ZIP file is compressed archive container that contains archived files, compressed in ZIP compression format. Common archive format that can be extracted with any archiving tool.
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