Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your XZ file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert XZ to another file type
To convert your XZ file to another format, you need XZ Utils or other Compressed software.
Convert a file to XZ
To convert other file formats to the "Lossless Compression Format" file type, you need software like XZ Utils or a similar tool.
About XZ files
XZ files are single-file compressed streams that utilize the LZMA2 compression algorithm to achieve extremely high compression ratios. Developed by the Tukaani Project, these files are a staple in the Linux ecosystem, commonly used for distributing software packages, kernel archives, and disk images. While .XZ offers significantly smaller file sizes than legacy formats like GZ or BZ2, this efficiency comes with high computational overhead during compression and decompression. A major limitation for general users is that .XZ is purely a compression format, not an archiver; it compresses a single stream of data. To store multiple files, it is almost exclusively paired with TAR (resulting in .TAR.XZ or TXZ). Furthermore, .XZ files are not natively supported by standard Windows or macOS file explorers, requiring third-party utilities like 7-Zip or WinRAR to open. For broader accessibility, users should convert .XZ files to ZIP, which creates a universally compatible archive that opens on any operating system without additional software. For archiving purposes where structure matters, converting to TAR or 7Z ensures data integrity while maintaining compression benefits.
Convert.Guru analyzes your XZ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert XZ file to GZ, ISO, ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, BZ2, LZMA, CAB, ACE, ARJ or LHA, you can use XZ Utils or similar software from the "LZMA2 Compressed Data Stream" 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 XZ, try XZ Utils or another comparable tool in the "LZMA2 Compressed Data Stream" category.
The XZ 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 XZ converter.