BZ2 converter
Convert BZ2 files to 4 other formats, or turn 0 other formats into BZ2. Everything runs in your browser — drop a file in and pick where it should end up.
Drop your BZ2 files here
or browse your device · paste with Ctrl+V
Accepts .bz2, .bzip2, .tbz2, .tar.bz2. Choose any output format from the menu on each row.
Your files never leave this device — there is no upload and no server to delete them from.
BZ2
Bzip2Compresses tighter than gzip using the Burrows-Wheeler transform, at the cost of being markedly slower both ways. Largely displaced by xz and zstd, but still common in older Linux archives.
- Developed by
- Julian Seward
- Released
- 1996
- Extension
- .bz2, .bzip2, .tbz2, .tar.bz2
- MIME type
- application/x-bzip2
- Compression
- Lossless
- Specification
- Open
- Readable directly in your browser.
- Writing needs the optional server worker.
- 4 outgoing and 0 incoming conversions available.
- 01
Add BZ2 files
Drop them on the box above. Batches are fine — each file gets its own row and its own settings.
- 02
Pick an output format
The menu on each row lists every format this file can become, grouped by category and searchable.
- 03
Convert and save
Everything happens locally. Download the files individually, or grab the whole batch as a ZIP.