The first recorded ideas for GUI Tar came about in July 2002, shorterly before its sister application Untar was released. A year and a half after its inception, GUI Tar 1.0 was released.

Unfortunately, GUI Tar's progress has not always been overly rapid, but this has dramatically changed since the release of GUI Tar 1.2.0 several weeks ago. In the course of a half month, GUI Tar has seen three updates (versions 1.2.0, 1.2.1, and 1.2.2). The last two patch releases have made some minor additions and improvements to the application.