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. TC4Shell icon
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    TC4Shell is a file archive tool that supports a huge array of archive formats and integrates with Windows Explorer for the utmost simplicity.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Squeeze icon
     4 likes

    Default archive manager for xfce. It can be used in ubuntu with perfect integration on pcman-fm

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  3. Zee is an efficient and simple to use Archiver and decompressor. it can decompress and compress from-to all the formats supported by the well known 7zip utility.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. AndroZip icon
     6 likes

    AndroZip is a utility that can unpack/decompress ZIP and other ZIP based archives like APK, JAR, WAR, EAR, TAR, GZIP and RAR. AndroZip can also create ZIP and ZIP based archives like APK, JAR, WAR, EAR, TAR and GZIP. Note only Win.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  6. The Archive Browser is a program that lets you browse the contents of archives, as well as extract them. It will let you open files from inside archives, and lets you preview them using Quick Look.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. SimplyRar icon
     9 likes

    A small software utility that enables you to easily create RAR archives.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Zipeg icon
     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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  9. GUI Tar icon
     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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. BreeZip icon
     Like

    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.

    95 BreeZip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Beezer icon
     3 likes

    An archiving tool for the Haiku operating system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Haiku
     
  12. ArKiwi icon
     1 like

    A lightweight and very fast file archiver, where you can add, compress, extract, delete, password protect, and blazing fast search all your files.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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