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. 9 ZIP icon
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    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 type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. FastZip icon
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    Support in right-click menu: 7z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ, LZIP, ACE, ISO, CAB, PAX, JAR, AR, CPIO ...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. 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).

    78 KGB Archiver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. SecureZIP icon
     3 likes

    SecureZIP® is an enterprise-grade, flexible encryption solution that enables organizations of all kinds to implement persistent data protection while gaining visibility into where files are used, shared, and stored.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Express Zip icon
     3 likes

    Express Zip is one of the most stable, easy-to-use and comprehensive file archive and compression tools available. Create, manage and extract zipped files and folders. Reduce file space needed by zipping big files before sending them.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  6. 8 Zip icon
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    Out with the old, in with the new. The powerful archiver 8 Zip has expanded its set of capabilities with the new Continuum and Windows Hello technologies.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone
     
  7. 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
     
  8. 7zX icon
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    7zX is a file archiver with high compression ratio. Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9.  3 likes

    A new rewritten Alternative for Free ARC by Bulat Ziganshin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. BitZipper icon
     4 likes

    Unzip WinZip, WinRAR, WinAce and many other types of archives as easy as 1-2-3! If you download files from the Internet, BitZipper is what you need to access them.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11.  4 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
     
  12. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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