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. Very good free alternative to 7zip for Mac user, allows you to view compressed file contents and extract only what you want, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. ZipX icon
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    ZipX is a professional, full-featured compression and extraction tool. It help you to Browse, Extract, Create, Modify file archives, view files in archives, support drag and drop files or folders from/to Finder.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  3. Lightning-fast right-click compression for Windows. Creates and extracts .zgx , extracts .zip and .rar, and preserves timestamps, creation times, attributes, and symlinks exactly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  4. ZIP Protect offers simple and secure ZIP files with password protection. Features AES-256 encryption for maximum security.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  5. Smart Zipper icon
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    Smart Zipper Pro for Mac is a professional archiving app, which can easily create, extract and preview major archive files like ZIP, RAR, 7z and more ( Over 20 popular formats ).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. Archive Utility is part of MacOS and supports ZIP, GZIP, and BZIP2 for expansion and CPGZ, CPIO, and ZIP formats for compression.

    74 Archive Utility alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  7. Zipora icon
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    Native macOS app for compression, extraction, and archive management featuring drag-and-drop, batch archiving, content preview with structure and timestamps, password protection, history tracking, archive editing, folder search, progress display, and multi-format support.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. 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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  9. Zipro icon
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    Zipro is a full-featured archive file viewing, preview, decompression, and creation tool, supports the decompression of dozens of file formats such as Rar / 7z / Zip and the creation of multiple file formats.

    53 Zipro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. BreeZip icon
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    BreeZip is a free tool to "unarchive" many different kinds of archive files - an alternative to winrar free on Windows 10. It will open common formats such as ZIP, RAR, 7-Zip, TAR, Gzip and more.

    89 BreeZip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. QuikZip icon
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    Browse archive trees, preview files, edit files inside regular ZIP archives, then save changes to the same archive or a new ZIP.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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