Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your CCZ file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert CCZ to another file type
To convert CCZ Game textures to another format, you need Cocos Creator or other Game software.
Convert a file to CCZ
To convert other file formats to the "Compressed Asset Archive" file type, you need software like Cocos Creator or a similar tool.
About CCZ files
A .CCZ file primarily functions as a compressed game texture used by the Cocos2d and Cocos2d-x game engines, though it is also utilized as an application package by the Dimagi CommCare platform. In game development, Cocos Creator uses .CCZ files to compress sprite sheets, which are almost always paired with a .PLIST data file. The engine uses zlib compression to drastically reduce the storage footprint of .PVR textures for mobile games. Conversely, the CommCare variant is simply a standard .ZIP archive containing offline forms, logic, and media, renamed with the .CCZ extension. The main disadvantage of .CCZ game textures is their proprietary, closed nature. Standard image viewers, web browsers, and basic operating systems cannot open them because they are highly specialized formats optimized strictly for GPU rendering rather than desktop viewing. Developers often need to extract these files back into individual .PNG images to edit or review the game assets. The best conversion targets are standard .PNG or .JPG files for game textures, and .ZIP extraction for CommCare packages. Converting to standard raster formats restores compatibility and allows for immediate editing, although it strips away the GPU-level compression benefits. This file format is notoriously difficult to open or convert online because standard converters do not parse specialized game engine headers or ETCPACK compression logic. Often, only the original game engine or dedicated sprite sheet tools can properly read or export the visual data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, like a standard ZIP structure, viewing or extraction may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your CCZ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert CCZ file to , you can use Cocos Creator or similar software from the "Compressed Game Texture Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to CCZ, try Cocos Creator or another comparable tool in the "Compressed Game Texture Storage" category.
The CCZ Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our CCZ converter.