PKZIP Alternatives

PKZIP is described as 'By PKWARE is the gold standard in data compression. PKZIP provides exceptional performance and ease of use across all enterprise operating systems' and is an app. There are more than 100 alternatives to PKZIP for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Web-based apps. The best PKZIP alternative is 7-Zip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PKZIP are PeaZip, WinRAR, NanaZip and MacPacker.

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  1. WinZip icon
     74 likes

    A versatile file archiver offering compression and decompression, native ZIP/ZIPX support, encryption, and extensive sharing via email, cloud, social media, integrating with various platforms and formats.

    110 WinZip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • ReactOS
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  2. 7-Zip ZS icon
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    7-Zip with support for Zstandard, Brotli, Lz4, Lz5 and Lizard Compression. Open source under LGPL-2.1 license.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. 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.

    88 B1 Free Archiver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  4. gzip icon
     16 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. BetterZip icon
     34 likes

    Supports creating and extracting over 30 archive formats, enables archive editing, strong AES-256 encryption, password management, Finder and sharing integration, preview without extraction, Windows compatibility features, ePub modification, and split file joining.

    84 BetterZip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. PowerArchiver icon
     32 likes

    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 and various disk image formats.

    84 PowerArchiver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. 7z SFX-Creator icon
     42 likes

    A simple and easy to use GUI based on 7zip for creating self-extracting archives and self-extracting installers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. Explzh for Windows is a file operation tool created with the concept of treating archive files, CD-ROM virtual disk images (ISO-9660 / ISO-13346), and FTP hosts as virtual folders and handling them like an explorer.

    102 Explzh for Windows alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9.  5 likes

    is a small perl script which makes extraction of any archive files a bit easier. It support several compressors and archiver programs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Terminal
    • Xfce
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  10. Xarchiver icon
     28 likes

    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 API calls.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
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  11. ArcThemAll! icon
     10 likes

    A simple software to multiple compress files and folders. ArcThemAll provides compression and extraction of batches of multiple folders or files with simple drag&drop loading. It includes an intelligent UPX compression mode, the support to self-extracting archives creation...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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