bz2
Bzip2
One file squeezed with bzip2: smaller than gzip, slower to make.
Free, no account, no watermark. Converted on our servers, then deleted.
Drop a BZ2 file here
As many as you like. We will show you what they convert to.
or paste one from the clipboard
Drop a BZ2 file onto the converter, or pick one from your device. You can add several at once.
Pick 7Z as the output format. Open Settings if you want to control the compression level and the password.
Convert and download the finished file. No account, and nothing to install.
Bzip2
One file squeezed with bzip2: smaller than gzip, slower to make.
7-Zip Archive
Compresses considerably harder than ZIP, at the cost of needing software most people have to install.
No. Both store the data exactly, so the result is the same content in a different container.
Not here. We can read 7Z but no engine of ours writes BZ2, so this conversion only goes one way.
You can set the compression level and the password. Anything left on Auto is decided by the encoder, which is usually the right answer unless you are targeting a specific size or device.
On our server. The file is sent over HTTPS and converted in a sandbox with no network access of its own; your input and the result go together, removed at once if it fails and otherwise kept for a few minutes so you can download them, then deleted — whether or not you did. There are no accounts for anything to be kept against.
Yes — there is a per-file cap and an hourly job limit, because this runs on one small server. The API page states the limits currently in force rather than a number baked into this page.