7-Zip Alternatives

7-Zip is described as 'Efficient file archiver offering superior compression and encryption. Supports multiple formats such as TAR, ZIP, with a unique self-extracting feature' and is a leading File Archiver in the file management category. There are more than 100 alternatives to 7-Zip for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best 7-Zip alternative is PeaZip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like 7-Zip are WinRAR, Bandizip, NanaZip and WinZip.

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7-Zip alternatives are mainly File Archivers, but if you're looking for File Compressors or File Managers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Mac, Linux, Windows, Open Source, Windows + Free, Windows + Open Source and Mac + Free. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to 7-Zip.
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  1. Free RAR Extract Frog is a beautiful decompression tool for RAR-archives that supports spanned archives as well as the extraction of password protected files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Zipeg icon
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    Zipeg is a universal open source archive extractor that supports ZIP and RAR (among other archiving formats). With just a click you can open a file and see what is inside.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  3. zlib icon
     3 likes

    zlib is a software library used for data compression. It is an abstraction of the DEFLATE compression algorithm used in gzip file compression program. zlib is also a crucial component of many software platforms including Linux, Mac OS X, and iOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Blackberry
     
  4. GUI Tar icon
     2 likes

    During the command-line era of computing, archiving files involved cryptic commands such as tar -xvf somefile.tar. However, since those days, the masses have come to use computers, and they expect an easy to use system with graphical elements and interaction.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. KuaiZip icon
     8 likes

    KuaiZip is a free, convenient, fast compressor and decompressor, with advanced compression technology and a proprietary of compression format(KZ). KZ is a high ratio and fast format. KuaiZip support more than 40 compression formats such as RAR,ZIP,7Z etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued
    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. UnRarX icon
     11 likes

    If the command line is not your thing - heres a GUI front-end for unrar. Drag-and-Drop extraction. Built-in par2 recovery. Written by Peter Noriega.

    81 UnRarX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. ezyZip icon
     4 likes

    ezyZip is a file compression tool that lets you zip files into an archive. It also supports unzip, allowing you to uncompress archived zip files.

    84 ezyZip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Unzip One icon
     3 likes

    A free, fast and secure archive manager by Trend?Micro—Unzip?One supports drag-and-drop, right-click extraction and safe preview for dozens of formats including ZIP, RAR, 7z, gzip, bzip2, ISO and more, on Windows 10+ and macOS 10.13+.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  9. Download NX Free ZIP Archiver - A little utility for compressing and decompressing archives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. WMaster ZipKing is a powerful compression tool that can quickly compress and decompress files and archives with a single click. It supports decompressing Zip, RAR, 7z, Tar, Gzip, and 64 other famous file formats with 20% faster than traditional compression software.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Effective app designed to decompress archives, like RAR, Zip, 7z, Tar, Tgz, Cbz, Lzh, Lzma, Bzip, iso, HFS, VHD, etc. Supports over 50 kinds of archive files, as well as extract encrypted archives entirely.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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