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 TGS animated stickers to another format, you need Telegram Messenger or other Vector Image software.
Convert a file to TGS
To convert other file formats to the "Animated Sticker File" file type, you need software like Telegram Messenger or a similar tool.
About TGS files
A .TGS file is a vector-based animated sticker format created specifically for Telegram Messenger. Under the hood, it is a GZIP-compressed Lottie JSON file that dictates how vector shapes move and render on screen. While highly efficient for Telegram's mobile data usage, .TGS files are heavily restricted and notoriously difficult to open outside the Telegram ecosystem. Natively, they are completely unsupported by standard image viewers, web browsers, or editing suites like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. Because it requires a dedicated Lottie player to parse the internal JSON logic, you cannot easily share these animations on platforms like WhatsApp, Discord, or Slack. To make these animations usable elsewhere, conversion is mandatory. For broad compatibility across forums and older platforms, convert .TGS to .GIF. If you need a smaller file size that retains crisp transparency for modern web use, convert to .WebP. For integration into video projects, convert to .MP4.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TGS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert TGS file to GIF, WEBP, JSON, PNG, JPG, SVG, ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ or BZ2, you can use Telegram Messenger or similar software from the "Animated Sticker Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert XXE, 7Z, Z, PAK, LHA, DEB, UUE, TAR, LZH, ZIP, PKG or RAR files to TGS, try Telegram Messenger or another comparable tool in the "Animated Sticker Storage" category.
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.