Turn BZ2 compressed files into TAR. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop BZ2 files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
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Drop BZ2 (bzip2) files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.
Save the TAR, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The BZ2 to TAR converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your compressed files are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
BZ2 holds one file only and is slow to compress. TAR preserves Unix file permissions and is expected by many developer tools. BZ2 is at home in compressing one file or a TAR archive on Unix systems; TAR is the usual choice for bundling files on Unix systems.
A password-protected archive is refused, since its contents cannot be read without the password. A plain TAR does not compress anything, so expect it to be about as large as the files inside; TAR.GZ and 7z make smaller files. A .bz2 file holds one file and no folders; that file is unpacked as it is and then repacked into the TAR.
bzip2 compresses a single file with the Burrows-Wheeler transform, giving smaller files than gzip but slower. It was the default for source tarballs before XZ took over, and .bz2 files are still common in scientific data.
Opens in Linux, macOS Terminal, 7-Zip and most archive utilities
BZ2 converterTAR glues files into one stream while preserving Unix permissions, without compressing them. It is nearly always paired with gzip, giving .tar.gz.
Opens in macOS, Linux and recent Windows; 7-Zip elsewhere
TAR converter| BZ2Bzip2 file | TARTAR archive | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | bzip2 | Tape Archive |
| Type | Compressed file | Archive (no compression) |
| Compression | Lossless (Burrows-Wheeler) | None |
| Introduced | 1996, by Julian Seward | 1979, by the Unix project at Bell Labs |
| Opens in | Linux, macOS Terminal, 7-Zip and most archive utilities | macOS, Linux and recent Windows; 7-Zip elsewhere |
| Best for | Compressing one file or a TAR archive on Unix systems | Bundling files on Unix systems |
| File extension | .bz2, .bzip2 | .tar |
No. The BZ2 to TAR conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
No. The files inside are repackaged unchanged.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the BZ2 file, press Convert and save the TAR. There is nothing to install.
Yes. An archive can be up to 500 MB, unpack to at most 1 GB and hold up to 50,000 files; beyond those limits the page says so. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.