How to extract text from your TGS file
- Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TGS file.
- You’ll see a preview, if available.
- Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TGS to another file type
To convert your TGS file to another format, you need Telegram or other Vector Image software.
- TGS to GIF
- TGS to WEBP
- TGS to JSON
- TGS to PNG
- TGS to JPG
- TGS to SVG
- TGS to ZIP
- TGS to RAR
- TGS to 7Z
- TGS to TAR
- TGS to GZ
- TGS to BZ2
Convert a file to TGS
To convert other file formats to the "Lottie Animation Archive" file type, you need software like Telegram or a similar tool.
- XXE to TGS
- 7Z to TGS
- Z to TGS
- PAK to TGS
- LHA to TGS
- DEB to TGS
- UUE to TGS
- TAR to TGS
- LZH to TGS
- ZIP to TGS
- PKG to TGS
- RAR to TGS
About TGS files
A .tgs file is a specialized animated sticker format used exclusively by Telegram Messenger. Technically, it is a GZIP-compressed text file containing JSON data based on the open-source Lottie (Bodymovin) animation library. While these files offer incredibly smooth, scalable vector animations at extremely small file sizes (often under 64KB), they are practically unusable outside the Telegram ecosystem. Standard image viewers, web browsers, and video editors cannot open or play .tgs files natively, and because they are compressed archives, you cannot simply edit the code with a text editor. To use these animations on other platforms like Discord, Slack, or social media, the most effective workflow is conversion. For universal compatibility, convert .tgs to GIF. For use in video editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro, convert to MP4. If you are a developer or animator needing to edit the source animation in Adobe After Effects, convert to uncompressed JSON (Lottie).
Convert.Guru analyzes your TGS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted GIF, MP4, PNG, WEBM, JSON, MOV, ZIP, JPG, PCACHE2, WEBP, SVG, CDW and TEMP files.
The TGS 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 TGS converter.