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. IZArc icon
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    Zip Utility - NEWS since - "Version 4.2 = NO MORE ADWARE. IZARC INSTALLER IS COMPLETELY ADWARE FREE" No bundleware that is showing in description.

    93 IZArc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  2. Rapidgzip icon
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    Rapidgzip: Parallelized Decompression of Gzip Files with Support for Fast Random Access.

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  3. p7zip icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
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  4. CHM Decoder icon
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    CHM Decoder may decompile your CHM file (Compiled Windows HTML Help) or e-book and extract all source files. This tool free for use and work easily and quickly. Want to convert CHM to HTML and view that in your PocketPC or in your web pages? CHM Decoder can help to you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. WinArchiver icon
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    WinArchiver is a powerful archive utility, which can open, create, and manage archive files. It supports almost all archive formats, including zip, rar, 7z, iso, and other popular formats. WinArchiver can also mount the archive to a virtual drive without extraction.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. AppCompactor allows you to easily compress applications to decrease size on disk and increase performance when running from slow media, like flash drives. It's packaged as a portable app, so you can work with your apps anywhere.

    69 PortableApps.com AppCompactor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  7. Info-ZIP icon
     10 likes

    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 graphical user interfaces for archiving programs in...

    84 Info-ZIP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. KGB Archiver icon
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    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 an essential minimum).

    76 KGB Archiver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. ZIP Extractor is a free, open-source application for decompressing ZIP files into Google Drive.

    101 Google drive open source ZIP EXTRACTOR alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Drive
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  10. zpaq icon
     9 likes

    zpaq is a free and open source incremental, journaling command-line archiver for Windows, Linux and Mac OS/X.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • US flagUnited States
    Archive size vs. time to compress and extract 10 GB (79,431 files) to an external USB hard drive at default and maximum settings on a Dell Latitude E6510 laptop (Core i7 M620, 2+2 hyperthreads, 2.66 GHz, 4 GB, Ubuntu Linux, Wine 1.6).
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  11. ExtractNow icon
     29 likes

    ExtractNow is a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple archives quickly and easily.

    37 ExtractNow alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
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  12. zlib icon
     4 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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Blackberry
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