Turn RAR archives into TAR.BZ2. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop RAR files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
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Drop RAR 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.BZ2, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The RAR to TAR.BZ2 converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your archives 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.
RAR needs extra software to open on most computers. TAR.BZ2 is smaller than TAR.GZ for the same files. RAR is at home in opening downloads that arrive as RAR; TAR.BZ2 is the usual choice for source code tarballs and scientific data.
A password-protected archive is refused, since its contents cannot be read without the password. RAR can be read but never written, because the format's licence does not allow it; that is why there is no conversion to RAR.
RAR is WinRAR's proprietary archive format. Free tools can extract it, but only licensed software may create one, so the practical move is to repackage its contents as ZIP.
Opens in WinRAR, 7-Zip, The Unarchiver; creating one requires WinRAR
RAR converterA .tar.bz2 (or .tbz2) is a TAR archive compressed with bzip2. It was the usual choice for source code releases before XZ and is still common in older software and datasets.
Opens in Linux, macOS Terminal, 7-Zip and most archive utilities
TAR.BZ2 converter| RARRAR archive | TAR.BZ2Bzip2-compressed TAR archive | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Roshal Archive | bzip2-compressed TAR |
| Type | Compressed archive | Compressed archive |
| Compression | Lossless (proprietary) | Lossless (Burrows-Wheeler) |
| Introduced | 1993, by Eugene Roshal | 1996, by Julian Seward (bzip2) |
| Opens in | WinRAR, 7-Zip, The Unarchiver; creating one requires WinRAR | Linux, macOS Terminal, 7-Zip and most archive utilities |
| Best for | Opening downloads that arrive as RAR | Source code tarballs and scientific data |
| File extension | .rar | .tar.bz2, .tbz2, .tbz, .tb2 |
No. The RAR to TAR.BZ2 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 RAR file, press Convert and save the TAR.BZ2. 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.