Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SBR file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SBR to another file type
To convert SBR backup files to another format, you need TaxACT or other Backup software.
Convert a file to SBR
To convert other file formats to the "Software Backup File" file type, you need software like TaxACT or a similar tool.
About SBR files
.SBR files serve multiple distinct purposes depending on the software that created them. The most common use is a TaxACT tax return backup file, containing financial data and US tax return information. Other prominent uses include EA game audio sound banks, SBR Injector VPN configuration files, and Microsoft Visual Studio compiler source browser intermediate files. These files are heavily fragmented and highly proprietary. A TaxACT .SBR file is completely unreadable outside the specific year's TaxACT software, locking users into their ecosystem. EA sound banks are compiled and often encrypted, making them useless for standard audio players. Visual Studio intermediate files are temporary junk files that consume disk space without offering direct user value. Users typically want to convert TaxACT .SBR files to PDF for permanent archiving, or EA sound banks to MP3 or WAV for playback. VPN configs might be read as TXT or JSON. Because these are closed, proprietary formats, standard online converters fail to process them. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. Just drag and drop your file onto convert.guru to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SBR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SBR file to JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB, GO, RS or SWIFT, you can use TaxACT or similar software from the "Tax Return Backup File" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to SBR, try TaxACT or another comparable tool in the "Tax Return Backup File" category.
The SBR 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 SBR converter.