PKZIP Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   Hamster ZIP Archiver

    11 likes

   Hamster ZIP Archiver is a powerful and modern archival program that allows users to easily compress and open files from any archive.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application typeApplication types

   • File Archiver
   • File Compressor

   Origin

   • Russia

   Alerts

   • Warning

   Platforms

   • Windows

   • Russia

   

   

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   Zipeg

    16 likes

   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

   • File Archiver

   Origin

   • United States

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows

   • United States

   

   

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   Zipware

    20 likes

   Zipware is simple and free zip software for Microsoft Windows that supports all major archiving formats including the new RAR5 format.

   67 Zipware alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application typeApplication types

   • File Archiver
   • File Compressor

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

   

   

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   WinRAR

   Powerful file compression and archiving tool supporting numerous formats. Offers secure file transfer, efficient storage, cross-platform compatibility, and multi-language support.

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   LZ4

    2 likes

   It features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • File Compressor

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

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   Kudesnik Archiver

    5 likes

   Light archive manager "Kudesnik". Formats: ZIP, JAR, RAR, 7-ZIP. Create and decompress archives.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • File Archiver

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Android

   

   

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   9 ZIP

    1 like

   9 Zip makes it easy to compress and decompress the Zip file. 9Zip not only works on Zip file but also decompress other files like Rar, Rar5, 7z, Gz, Bz, Tar, Jar.

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application typeApplication types

   • File Archiver
   • File Compressor

   Origin

   • Spain
   • EU

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Windows

   • Spain
   • EU

   

   

   

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    Beezer

     3 likes

    An archiving tool for the Haiku operating system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • File Archiver

    Platforms

    • Haiku

    

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    Free ARC NEXT

     3 likes

    A new rewritten Alternative for Free ARC by Bulat Ziganshin.

    74 Free ARC NEXT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • File Archiver

    Origin

    • Russia

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

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    7-ZIP SFX Maker

     2 likes

    A windows GUI for creating self-extracting (.exe) files from 7zip archives (.7z).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • India

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

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    Entropy

     9 likes

    Easily create, open and preview popular archive files like ZIP, RAR, 7z, TGZ and more ( 30+ formats supported ).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application typeApplication types

    • File Archiver
    • File Compressor

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

    

    

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    GUI Tar

     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.

    72 GUI Tar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • File Compressor

    Origin

    • United States

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

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    ToGoZip

     1 like

    ToGoZip: Add to Zip for android-s share/send menu.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid

    

    

    

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