UTZ Converter

Extract text from UIQ theme packages (UTZ)


Drop or upload your .UTZ file
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How to extract text from your UTZ file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your UTZ file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert UTZ to another file type

To convert UTZ themes to another format, you need UIQ Theme Creator or other Settings software.

Convert a file to UTZ

To convert other file formats to the "Symbian Theme Package" file type, you need software like UIQ Theme Creator or a similar tool.


About UTZ files

The .utz file format is a legacy UIQ Theme Package created by UIQ Technology for early Symbian OS smartphones like the Sony Ericsson P900 and Motorola Z8. These files function as compressed containers that store user interface modifications, including background images, system icons, color palettes, and ringtones. Because the UIQ platform was abandoned in 2009, this proprietary format is completely obsolete. Modern operating systems like Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS cannot natively open, read, or install .utz files. Users typically need to open these files today only to recover nostalgic wallpapers, custom icons, or audio assets trapped inside. The biggest disadvantage of the .utz format is its lack of support; finding legacy software like the original UIQ Theme Creator is incredibly difficult, and the application is often incompatible with modern 64-bit hardware. The most practical solution is to extract the .utz file as a standard ZIP archive, allowing you to recover standard media formats like PNG, JPG, and WAV. Because this is a discontinued, proprietary format, standard online converters often fail to process it or do not recognize the extension. Our platform can inspect the file architecture, detect the supported underlying archive formats, and extract the embedded media assets directly.

Convert.Guru analyzes your UTZ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert UTZ file to INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV, PROPERTIES or RC, you can use UIQ Theme Creator or similar software from the "Mobile UI Customization" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to UTZ, try UIQ Theme Creator or another comparable tool in the "Mobile UI Customization" category.



The UTZ 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 UTZ converter.