899 Like WinRAR Good alternative? YES NO WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. You can try... Freemium Mac Windows Linux Android BSD File compression Add a feature WinRAR does not have an OS X compatible GUI. Only the WinRAR command line tool is OS X compatible. Guest • Jun 2016 Disagree Agree
326 Like PeaZip Good alternative? YES NO PeaZip is a free and open-source file manager and file archiver for Windows, Linux and BSD made by Giorgio Tani. It supports its native PEA archive format (featuring compression, multi volume split and flexible authenticated... Open Source Windows Linux BSD File compression Add a feature
214 Like The Unarchiver Good alternative? YES NO The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit... Open Source Mac File compression Add a feature The Unarchiver requires the user to unzip the files into a folder. 7-zip allows the user to open a preview of the zip, pull out files and edit things, and simply close the program to rezip it. Guest • Aug 2015 Disagree Agree
87 Like Bandizip Good alternative? YES NO Bandizip is 100% free Archiver for home and office. It handles the most popular compression formats, including Zip, 7z, and Rar files for free!. Bandizip supports for compression and extraction: Zip(z01), ZipX(zx01), TAR, TGZ... Free Windows File compression Support for Unicode Add a feature Support all common compression format, very lightweight, nice interface. Frequently updated. No Ads. My favorite tool for compressed stuff. roosso • Nov 2016 Disagree Agree
67 Like File Roller Good alternative? YES NO File Roller is the archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment. It can extract, view, create and modify archives. File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip. Open Source Linux GNOME File compression Add a feature This is a good alternative to the 7Zip GUI frontend. 7Zip for Linux only has the command line and library-based access, and users need a separate front end. FileRoller is currently the best available archive browser for GTK/GNOME based environments. Guest • Mar 2016 Disagree Agree
122 Like Commander One Good alternative? YES NO Commander One is dual-pane file manager for OS X created in Swift, which enables you to manage your files in the best possible way. You will get the dual-pane interface for easy moving and copying files from one place to another;... Freemium Mac Dual pane support Support for FTP Add a feature
56 Like WinZip Good alternative? YES NO WinZip is a proprietary file archiver and compressor. It allows you to easily zip (compress) and unzip (decompress) files, encrypt zipped files, and email zipped files. WinZIP natively uses the ZIP and ZIPX formats but also has... Commercial Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad File compression Add a feature
57 Like HaoZip YES NO Haozip is a powerful free archive manager. It can compress and extract archives in 7z, ZIP and TAR formats and can extract RAR, ISO, UDF, ISZ, ACE, UUE, CAB, Bzip2, ARJ, JAR, LZH, RPM, Z, LZMA, NSIS, CHM, DMG, HFS, WIM, DEB, MSI... Free Windows File compression Add a feature Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 3.0, released in July 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website. Warning Even if the installer is clean after a VirusTotal scan, the website is reported as malicious by Firefox and Chrome
37 Like FreeArc Good alternative? YES NO FreeArc is a free and open source file archiver developed by Bulat Ziganshin. It uses LZMA, PPMD, TrueAudio and GRzip algorithms with automatic switching by file type, and also uses set of filters—for instance it can remove... Open Source Windows Linux File compression Add a feature Discontinued Latest alpha version from August 2012 - http://freearc.org/history/changelog_full.htm
53 Like Keka Good alternative? YES NO Keka is a free file archiver for Mac OS X Compression formats supported: 7z, Zip, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, DMG, ISO Extraction formats supported: RAR, 7z, Lzma, xz, Zip, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, ISO, EXE, CAB, PAX Open Source Mac File compression Add a feature
13 Like Zipware Good alternative? YES NO Zipware is simple and free zip software for Microsoft Windows that supports all major archiving formats including the new RAR5 format. . Free Windows No features added Add a feature
34 Like 7z SFX-Creator Alternative? YES NO A simple and easy to use GUI based on 7zip for creating self-extracting archives and self-extracting installers. Open Source Windows File compression Add a feature Discontinued The project seems to be no longer maintained. Last version, 1.3, released in October 2012, can be still downloaded from Google Project Hosting.
36 Like B1 Free Archiver Alternative? YES NO B1 Free Archiver is a free multi-platform universal archiver. Currently it works on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android; moreover B1 Online Archiver allows you to uncompress .b1, zip, rar or .7z archive from your computer directly online.... Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web / Cloud Android ... Android Tablet File compression Add a feature Bundleware Be careful during the installation: https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/
95 Like IZArc YES NO IZArc is the best freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG... Free Windows iPhone iPad Built-in viewer Dropbox integration Windows Explorer integration File compression Multiple languages Add a feature Warning The installer force you to install a malware program, as written on WOT ( https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/izarc.org ) Bundleware The installer force you to install a malware program, as written on WOT ( https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/izarc.org )
28 Like PowerArchiver Good alternative? YES NO PowerArchiver is a proprietary file archiver for Microsoft Windows. It supports full read-write access to several different archive formats, including ZIP, 7z and Tar. Additionally, read-only (decompression) support includes RAR, ACE... Commercial Windows No features added Add a feature
25 Like ExtractNow YES NO ExtractNow is a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple archives quickly and easily. Why wear out your clicking finger extracting files one by one when you can extract at once? ExtractNow does a fine job of bundling... Free Mac Windows Linux Wine Drag n drop Windows Explorer integration File compression Add a feature Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Latest Version, 4.8.2.0, released on March 30th, 2014, can be still downloaded from the official website. Warning Has 3/56 anti-virus engines on VirusTotal found the installer to be malicious: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/f17f54c89bfd51c37fe5e2c767f42626449d8467686de27cbc12af70344833dd/analysis/1462730689/
15 Like p7zip Good alternative? YES NO p7zip is a port of the command line version of the 7-Zip file archiver to POSIX-conforming operating systems like Unix (Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Cygwin, AIX, ...), MacOS X and also for BeOS and Amiga. Open Source Mac Linux BSD Haiku File compression Add a feature
12 Like gzip Good alternative? YES NO GNU Gzip is a software application used for file compression and decompression. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding. Open Source Linux BSD File compression Add a feature
19 Like Xarchiver Good alternative? YES NO Xarchiver is a lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with the GTK+2 toolkit. It was developed with a simple GUI which that could be used with any desktop environment and would operate using the command line rather than... Open Source Linux BSD Xfce File compression Lightweight Add a feature
27 Like BetterZip Good alternative? YES NO Extract Only Files You Really Need. Create Archives. Update Archives. Protect Your Data. Open Archives Without Extracting (ZIP, SIT, TAR, GZip, BZip2, RAR, 7-Zip, CPIO, ARJ, LZH/LHA, JAR, WAR, CAB, ISO, CHM). Commercial Mac No features added Add a feature
15 Like KGB Archiver Alternative? YES NO KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievably high compression rate. Unfortunately, in spite of its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (I recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as... Open Source Windows File compression Add a feature Discontinued Software no longer updated since 2 years ago. Site domain is on sale.
15 Like Free Opener Good alternative? YES NO Free Opener allows users to view, edit and print many different types of files without having to download specialty software. Currently, the software supports over 80 different file formats including Microsoft Office Files (.doc... Free Windows File compression Add a feature
7 Like Easy 7-Zip Good alternative? YES NO Easy 7-Zip is an easy-to-use version of 7-Zip. Originally, Easy 7-Zip was built based on 7-Zip 9.20. I kept all features of 7-Zip and added a few useful features that makes the software more user-friendly. Open Source Windows No features added Add a feature
7 Like Info-ZIP Good alternative? YES NO Info-ZIP is a set of open-source software to handle ZIP archives. It has been in circulation since 1989. It consists of 4 separately-installable packages: the Zip and UnZip command-line utilities; and WiZ and MacZip, which are... Open Source Mac Windows Linux File compression Add a feature Discontinued No updates since 2008
6 Like Open Freely Good alternative? YES NO Open Freely: the Easiest Way To Open ALL Files For FREE! Edit, Print & Save All Microsoft Office Files One Program To Open Many File Types - Over 100 Types Supported Built For Windows. Windows 7, Vista, XP all... Free Windows File compression Add a feature
