Xarchiver is described as 'Lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with the GTK+2 toolkit. It was developed with a simple GUI which that could be used with any desktop environment and would operate using the command line rather than API calls' and is a File Archiver in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Xarchiver for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Web-based apps. The best Xarchiver alternative is 7-Zip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Xarchiver are PeaZip, WinRAR, NanaZip and FreeCommander.