WinZip Alternatives

WinZip is described as 'A file archiver tool enabling compression and decompression, supporting ZIP and ZIPX formats, allowing file encryption and secure sharing via multiple platforms' and is a popular File Archiver in the file management category. There are more than 100 alternatives to WinZip for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Web-based apps. The best WinZip alternative is 7-Zip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WinZip are PeaZip, WinRAR, NanaZip and Bandizip.

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

    63 Zipware alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. PKZIP icon
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    PKZIP by PKWARE is the gold standard in data compression. PKZIP provides exceptional performance and ease of use across all enterprise operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. ZipGenius icon
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    ZipGenius: the free and powerful archive manager for Windows.

    Running out of hard disk space? Documents spread over you entire system? Did you get a .zip or .rar file and you dont know what to do?

    There is only one answer: ZipGenius!

    ZipGenius can handle more than 20 compresse.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Archiver icon
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    ?? Extract Archives: So you downloaded this file you can't open? Don't be fooled by the name — Archiver is a highly versatile unarchiver that can unpack pretty much any archive you throw at it. With Archiver, you can extract RAR, StuffIt, Zip, 7zip and many more popular...

    85 Archiver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. 7z SFX-Creator icon
     41 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
     
  6. StuffIt icon
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    StuffIt is the right tool for people who just need very basic compression and expansion features. StuffIt has some great features that help you manage your workflow quickly and efficiently. Create both Zip and StuffIt X archives with or without encryption, and open compressed or...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  7.  5 likes

    GNU tar saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives and special features that...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
  8. Secure Zip & Unzip is a lightweight, native macOS utility that makes ZIP encryption fast, automatic, and frustration-free. Every archive is encrypted using AES-256 — the same standard used by banks and governments — with no advanced setup or configuration needed.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. KingshiperZip allows you to unzip files in WinZip, RAR, and 7z formats. It is a clean, secure, and ad-free software that offers compression options for images, videos, audio, GIFs, PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel files.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Bitser icon
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    Bitser is free Windows zip software for managing archives and backups. It supports ZIP, ZIPX, 7Z, RAR, ISO, MSI, VHD, GZIP, BZIP2,TAR, LZMA, LZMA2, NTFS, FAT, MBR, SquashFS, CramFS, MSLZ, CAB, CPIO, DEB, LZH, NSIS, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR, XZ, Z.

    84 Bitser alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Bandizip X icon
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    Bandizip X is an easy-to-use, reliable and fast zip unarchiver.

    This unarchiving program can unpack most popular compression formats created by WinZip (.zip), WinRAR (.rar), 7Zip (.7z) and more.

    Features:

    • Unzip archives with the most common formats: ZIP, ZIPX, RAR, 7Z,.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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