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. AppCompactor allows you to easily compress applications to decrease size on disk and increase performance when running from slow media, like flash drives. It's packaged as a portable app, so you can work with your apps anywhere.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  2. ToGoZip icon
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    ToGoZip: Add to Zip for android-s share/send menu.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  3. UnRarX icon
     11 likes

    If the command line is not your thing - heres a GUI front-end for unrar. Drag-and-Drop extraction. Built-in par2 recovery. Written by Peter Noriega.

    81 UnRarX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. SpinZip icon
     1 like

    Zip files in either :

    1. User-specified approximate size. This method will create create something like "spanned zips" that any compression app (WinZip, WinRAR, etc) can do. However, the key difference with SpinZip is that the zips created are independent of one anoth.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. WinAce icon
     6 likes

    WinAce is not just another archiving shell. With it's own powerful compression format ACE and built-in support for other popular compression types like ZIP, RAR and MS-CAB (to name a few), WinAce could actually become the only archiver you need.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. FileZipper icon
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    Zip or unzip your files online, 100% free, with no registration. The files will be processed in your browser, which means no uploads are required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
     
  7. 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
     
  8. ezyZip icon
     4 likes

    ezyZip is a file compression tool that lets you zip files into an archive. It also supports unzip, allowing you to uncompress archived zip files.

    84 ezyZip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Create Zip Files, the free online online zip solution that provides a fast and quality service for all your zipping and unzipping needs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. WinUHA icon
     6 likes

    WinUHA - powerful GUI (Graphical User Interface) for UHARC. UHarc (Uwe Herklotz archiver) is a high-compression 386+ DOS and Windows file archiver.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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