All archive formats

220 compressed and archive formats covered on Archive Explorer — from ubiquitous (ZIP) to obscure (uuencode).

Archive (Android distribution)

2 formats in this category.

apks

APK split bundle (.apks)

.apks

xapk

XAPK

.xapk

Archive (SQLite container)

1 format in this category.

sqlar

SQLite Archive

.sqlar · .db

Archive (Scratch project)

1 format in this category.

sb3

.sb3 (Scratch project)

.sb3 · .sb2

Archive (TAR variant)

2 formats in this category.

oar

OAR (OpenSimulator archive)

.oar

iar

IAR (OpenSimulator inventory)

.iar

Archive (VM appliance)

1 format in this category.

ovf

OVF / OVA

.ovf · .ova

Archive (Windows imaging)

2 formats in this category.

esd

swm

Archive (audiobook)

1 format in this category.

aax

Audible AAX

.aax · .aa

Archive (boot ramdisk)

1 format in this category.

img

initramfs

.img · .cpio.gz · .cpio.xz

Archive (comic book)

2 formats in this category.

cbt

CBT comic archive

.cbt

cb7

CB7 / CBT / CBR / CBZ family

.cb7 · .cbr · .cbt

Archive (container image)

1 format in this category.

tar

Docker / OCI image

.tar

Archive (e-book)

1 format in this category.

kfx

Kindle KFX

.kfx

Archive (email database)

1 format in this category.

pst

PST (Outlook)

.pst · .ost

Archive (email)

1 format in this category.

mbox

mbox (mailbox)

.mbox · .mbx

Archive (flashcard deck)

1 format in this category.

apkg

.apkg (Anki deck)

.apkg · .colpkg

Archive (game asset bundle)

10 formats in this category.

pak

vpk

bsa

BSA (Bethesda Softworks Archive)

.bsa

ba2

BA2 (Fallout 4 / 76)

.ba2

gcf

GCF (Steam Game Cache File)

wad

big

umod

.umod / .upk (Unreal mod / package)

.umod · .upk · .pak

unity3d

Unity AssetBundle

.unity3d · .bundle · .assets

pwz

PWZ (Phoenix Wright)

.pwz

Archive (game distribution)

1 format in this category.

love

.love (LÖVE 2D)

.love

Archive (game-specific)

3 formats in this category.

pak

PAK (Game data)

.pak

wad

WAD (Where's All the Data)

.wad

mpq

MPQ (Blizzard)

.mpq

Archive (no compression)

4 formats in this category.

tar

cpio

asar

Archive (rhythm game map)

1 format in this category.

osz

.osz (osu! beatmap)

.osz · .oszip

Archive (split)

1 format in this category.

part1.rar

RAR multi-volume

.part1.rar · .r00 · .r01

Archive (static library)

1 format in this category.

lib

.lib (Microsoft / COFF)

.lib

Archive (web archive)

2 formats in this category.

wacz

warc

Archive (web page)

2 formats in this category.

mht

Archive+compression

48 formats in this category.

zip

rar

tar.gz

tar.bz2

.tar.bz2 · .tbz2 · .tbz

tar.xz

tar.zst

cab

arj

lzh

sit

ace

tgz

TGZ (alias of tar.gz)

.tgz

tbz2

TBZ2 (alias of tar.bz2)

.tbz2 · .tbz

exe

SFX (Self-extracting EXE)

.exe

pk3

PK3 / PK4 (Quake engine)

.pk3 · .pk4

xar

xar (eXtensible ARchive)

tar.lz

tar.zst

pea

rar

arc

arc

zpaq

piz

lha

tar.lzma

tpxz

pixz (parallel indexed xz)

exe

exe

exe

dar

kgb

zoo

zipx

alz

egg

arc

arc

ARC (SEA / System Enhancement Associates)

tar.lzo

tar.Z

tar.br

tar.7z

tar.lz

gca

kgb

arc

Backup image

1 format in this category.

fl0

.fl0 (FlashCopy backup)

.fl0 · .fl1

Binary container (legacy Mac)

1 format in this category.

hqx

BinHex (.hqx)

.hqx

Binary-to-text encoding

3 formats in this category.

uue

b64

hqx

Columnar data file

3 formats in this category.

parquet

orc

feather

Compressed boot image

1 format in this category.

zboot kernel

.gz · .lz4 · .xz

Compressed read-only filesystem

3 formats in this category.

sqsh

SquashFS

.sqsh · .squashfs · .sfs

erofs

EROFS

.erofs · .img

cramfs

.cramfs

Compression (single file)

28 formats in this category.

bz2

zst

lz4

lzma

lzo

bz2

pbzip2 (parallel bzip2)

lzfse

zst

Zstandard with dictionary

bz3

lrz

paq8

lzma

aplib

Container

1 format in this category.

bin

MacBinary (.bin)

.bin

Content-addressed storage

1 format in this category.

idx

CASC (Blizzard)

.idx · .data

Data container

1 format in this category.

pmtiles

PMTiles

.pmtiles

Data container (SQLite)

2 formats in this category.

gpkg

mbtiles

Deduplicating backup repository

2 formats in this category.

Directory bundle (not a real archive)

1 format in this category.

app

.app bundle

.app

Disk image

16 formats in this category.

dmg

DMG (Apple Disk Image)

iso

img

nrg

mdf

bin

ccd

isz

daa

DAA (Direct Access Archive)

.daa

toast

TOAST (Roxio disc image)

vdi

vhdx

vmdk

qcow

.sparseimage · .sparsebundle

cdr

CDR (raw CD image)

.cdr · .toast

EBook (PalmDB variant)

2 formats in this category.

mobi

azw3

EBook (XML)

1 format in this category.

fb2

FictionBook (.fb2)

.fb2 · .fb2.zip

File-based image

1 format in this category.

wim

WIM (Windows Imaging)

.wim · .esd · .swm

Filesystem image

3 formats in this category.

jffs2

ubi

romfs

Flux disk image

1 format in this category.

raw

Kryoflux STREAM

.raw · .0.raw

Identifier (not a file)

1 format in this category.

magnet: URI

Individual email file

1 format in this category.

eml

.eml (RFC 822)

.eml

Installer database

1 format in this category.

msi

MSI (Windows Installer)

.msi

Metadata file (bencoded)

1 format in this category.

torrent

.torrent

Metadata sidecar (Mac)

1 format in this category.

adf

AppleSingle / AppleDouble

.adf · .AppleDouble

Metadata sidecar (legacy Mac)

1 format in this category.

rsrc

Mac Resource Fork

.rsrc

Package (7z variant)

1 format in this category.

cb7

CB7 (Comic Book 7z)

.cb7

Package (BSD)

1 format in this category.

txz

pkg(8) tar.zst

.txz · .tzst · .pkg

Package (CAB variant)

1 format in this category.

cab

InstallShield .cab

.cab · .hdr

Package (CAB wrapper)

1 format in this category.

msu

.msu (Microsoft Update)

.msu

Package (Linux distro)

1 format in this category.

apk

APK (Alpine Linux)

.apk

Package (OSTree)

1 format in this category.

flatpak

Flatpak bundle

.flatpak

Package (RAR variant)

1 format in this category.

cbr

CBR (Comic Book RAR)

.cbr

Package (Solus)

1 format in this category.

eopkg

EOPKG (Solus)

.eopkg

Package (TAR variant)

3 formats in this category.

ova

OVA (Open Virtualization Appliance)

gem

cbt

Package (Void Linux)

1 format in this category.

xbps

XBPS package

.xbps

Package (ZIP variant)

11 formats in this category.

jar

JAR (Java Archive)

.jar

war

WAR (Web Application Archive)

.war

ear

EAR (Enterprise Archive)

.ear

aab

AAB (Android App Bundle)

.aab

epub

EPUB

.epub

docx

DOCX (Office Open XML)

.docx · .xlsx · .pptx

odt

nupkg

whl

cbz

pyz

Package (ar wrapper)

1 format in this category.

ipk

IPK (OPKG / Entware)

.ipk

Package (archive of archives)

2 formats in this category.

deb

DEB (Debian package)

.deb

rpm

RPM (Red Hat package)

.rpm

Package (mobile installer)

1 format in this category.

sis

SIS / SISX (Symbian)

.sis · .sisx

Package (signed ZIP)

7 formats in this category.

apk

APK (Android package)

.apk

ipa

IPA (iOS App)

.ipa

crx

CRX (Chrome Extension)

.crx

xpi

XPI (Firefox Extension)

.xpi

pkpass

PKPASS (Apple Wallet)

.pkpass

crx

CRX3 (Chrome Extension v3)

.crx

appx

APPX / MSIX

.appx · .msix · .appxbundle

Package (squashfs based)

1 format in this category.

opk

OPK (OpenDingux package)

.opk

Package (squashfs in ELF)

1 format in this category.

AppImage

.AppImage

Package (squashfs)

1 format in this category.

snap

Snap (Ubuntu package)

.snap

Package (tar wrapper)

1 format in this category.

tgz

PKGINFO (NetBSD pkgsrc / FreeBSD)

.tgz · .txz

Package (tar.gz wrapper)

1 format in this category.

pet

Puppy PET

.pet

Package (xar variant)

1 format in this category.

pkg

PKG (macOS installer)

.pkg

Package (xar wrapped)

1 format in this category.

pkg

macOS .pkg (flat)

.pkg

Partial download container

1 format in this category.

part

eDonkey link / .part

.part · .met

Partition image

2 formats in this category.

000

img

Row-oriented data file

1 format in this category.

avro

Apache Avro

.avro

Self-extracting (Windows)

1 format in this category.

sed

IExpress SED

.sed · .iexpress

Self-extracting (game installer)

1 format in this category.

exe

GoG Galaxy installer

.exe · .bin

Self-extracting shell script

1 format in this category.

shar

shar (Shell archive)

.shar

Virtual disk image

3 formats in this category.

vhd

VHD (Virtual Hard Disk)

.vhd · .vhdx

vmdk

VMDK (VMware Virtual Disk)

.vmdk

qcow2

QCOW2 (QEMU Copy-On-Write)

.qcow2 · .qcow