LanguageGZIP
GNU ZIP gzip compressed archive
File type: Archive and compressed file
Files with gzip extension an be usually found as compressed file archives using GNU ZIP tool. Most modern tools can extract these files.
What is gzip file?
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Date updated: July 19, 2025
File extension gzip is related to Gzip or GNU ZIP, one of the many compression tools available for users. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) and Huffman coding
A .gzip file is a compressed archive created in GZip.
MIME: application/x-compressed, application/x-gzip
How to open gzip file?
Most modern archiving tools (eg. WinRAR or 7-zip) should be able to decompress .gzip and extract the file contents.
How to convert gzip file?
You can repack these archives to some other format using your favourit archive compressor.
Associated software actions with the gzip file
Software applications that can open gzip files:
Decompressor (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Software apps that create gzip files:
Gzip (Linux/Unix)
Software apps that extract gzip files:
WinArchiver (Microsoft Windows)
7-zip (Microsoft Windows)
ZipZag (Microsoft Windows)
WinRAR (Microsoft Windows)
WinZip (Microsoft Windows)
PeaZip (Microsoft Windows)
The Unarchiver (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
sArchiver (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Decompressor (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Gzip (Linux/Unix)
iZip (Apple iOS)