Extract text from Zooper Widget templates (ZW)
To convert ZW templates to another format, you need Zooper Widget Pro or other Compressed software.
To convert other file formats to the "Android Custom Widget Archive" file type, you need software like Zooper Widget Pro or a similar tool.
The .ZW file format is primarily an Android custom widget file utilized by the discontinued application Zooper Widget. These templates store the complete visual layout, TTF fonts, PNG icon sets, and configuration data required to render custom home screen elements on Android devices. A much smaller subset of .ZW files exist as legacy Chinese Text Files used for specific text encoding tasks.
Modern users face severe limitations with .ZW files. The original developer, MYCOLORSCREEN, abandoned Zooper Widget, and it was removed from the Google Play Store in 2017. Consequently, modern Android devices and contemporary customization apps cannot natively read or import this format. The reliance on a defunct software ecosystem makes the format practically useless in its original state.
To recover the assets trapped inside a .ZW file, the best target conversion format is ZIP. Underneath the proprietary extension, a Zooper Widget template is structurally just a standard ZIP archive. By targeting standard archive extraction, users can salvage the raw images and fonts to reconstruct the widgets in modern, supported apps like KWGT.
Because this is a closed, proprietary extension linked to an obsolete mobile app, standard online document or image converters fail entirely to process it. Just drag and drop your file onto convert.guru to identify the format, view its internal structure, and extract the embedded assets if supported. Our analysis engine bypasses the unrecognized extension to detect the underlying archive or encoded text, making conversion or asset extraction possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ZW file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted ZW1, YG5, AZW, PDF, DWG, ZIP, TEMPLATE, AIT and ITP files.
If you want to convert ZW file to ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, LZMA, CAB, ACE, ARJ or LHA, you can use Zooper Widget Pro or similar software from the "Android Widget Template 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 ZW, try Zooper Widget Pro or another comparable tool in the "Android Widget Template Storage" category.
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 ZW converter.