Turn XAR archives into TAR. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop XAR files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
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Drop XAR (PKG) 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 XAR to TAR 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.
XAR opens mainly on a Mac, and Windows and Linux need extra tools. TAR preserves Unix file permissions and is expected by many developer tools. XAR is at home in mac installer packages; 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. XAR files are read, not installed or mounted: every file inside is unpacked and repacked into the TAR, so nothing of the system image or installer is run.
XAR is an archive format with an XML table of contents followed by compressed file data, which lets a tool read the listing without scanning the whole file. macOS uses it for flat installer packages (.pkg) and it was used for Safari extensions.
Opens in macOS Installer and the xar tool; 7-Zip can unpack one
XAR 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| XARXAR archive | TARTAR archive | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | eXtensible ARchive | Tape Archive |
| Type | Compressed archive | Archive (no compression) |
| Compression | Lossless (zlib) | None |
| Introduced | 2005, by Rob Braun and the OpenDarwin project | 1979, by the Unix project at Bell Labs |
| Opens in | macOS Installer and the xar tool; 7-Zip can unpack one | macOS, Linux and recent Windows; 7-Zip elsewhere |
| Best for | Mac installer packages | Bundling files on Unix systems |
| File extension | .xar, .pkg | .tar |
No. The XAR 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 XAR 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.