Alternatives to 7-Zip for all platforms with any license

  • PeaZip

    PeaZip is free file archiver utility, based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, FreeArc, PAQ, and PEA projects.

    • Basically 7-Zip but with a better user interface, and better integration with Windows. Unless you want more control than the standard Fastest-Ultra presets, PeaZip is probably better for you. ryangreen • Jun 2020 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • It does the same as 7-Zip and WinRAR but it looks more beautiful. braky • Jan 2020 • 4 agrees and 7 disagrees Disagree   Agree

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com

    Compression Windows Explorer extension Built-in archiver Drag n drop ... Encryption AES encryption File Compression Compression File management Portable Add a feature

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  • WinRAR

    WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and...

    • Has the best features and is easy to use. 22Ezra22 • May 2020 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • WinRAR does not have an OS X compatible GUI. Only the WinRAR command line tool is OS X compatible. Guest • Jun 2016 • 33 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • 7-zip had some issues displaying all the files. neal_colgrass • Apr 2018 • 17 agrees and 19 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • It's fastest, more secure, all that i want. alfinge0893 • Dec 2017 • 2 agrees and 27 disagrees Disagree   Agree

    Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Android BSD ... ReactOS

    Compression Shell integration File Compression Add a feature

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  • Bandizip

    Bandizip is a powerful archiver which provides an ultrafast processing speed and convenient features. Available free of charge, and its paid editions support a variety...

    • Equivalent functionality but with a nicer interface! Guest • Dec 2017 • 4 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • Great UI, efficient yet powerful Guest • Apr 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • Support all common compression format, very lightweight, nice interface. Frequently updated. No Ads. My favorite tool for compressed stuff. roosso • Nov 2016 • 6 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree

    Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows

    Ad-free Auto update Built-in themes Windows Explorer integration ... File Compression Compression Interface Overlay Multiple languages Support for Right-to-Left Support for Unicode Add a feature

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  • WinZip

    The world's best file compressor in the world. Start saving your time with the world's #1 compression software. Zip, protect, manage and share all your files...

    Commercial Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad ReactOS

    File Compression Compression Add a feature

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  • The Unarchiver

    The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR (including v5)...

    • The Unarchiver requires the user to unzip the files into a folder. 7-zip allows the user to open a preview of the zip, pull out files and edit things, and simply close the program to rezip it. Guest • Aug 2015 • 19 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

    Free Mac

    File Compression Add a feature

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  • Keka

    Keka is a full featured file archiver, as easy as it can be. With Keka you can compress as many files as you want in a bunch of formats. Divide files and protect them...

    • While Keka works with more file formats that OS X's native compressed file handler, that's about all that it does. Keka does not let you view a file without first decompressing it into another directory. Guest • Oct 2017 • 11 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • Keka is a port of 7-Zip on Mac OS. It accepts 7z files. Guest • Sep 2017 • 1 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree   Agree

    Freemium $ $ $ Mac

    Ad-free Command line interface File Compression Password encryption Add a feature

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  • File Roller

    File Roller is the archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment. It can extract, view, create and modify archives. File Roller is only a graphical interface to...

    • It is called Archive Manager in Ubuntu tejasshetty • Aug 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • This is a good alternative to the 7Zip GUI frontend. 7Zip for Linux only has the command line and library-based access, and users need a separate front end. FileRoller is currently the best available archive browser for GTK/GNOME based environments. Guest • Mar 2016 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

    Free Open Source Linux GNOME

    File Compression Compression Add a feature

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  • FreeArc

    FreeArc is a free and open source file archiver developed by Bulat Ziganshin. It uses LZMA, PPMD, TrueAudio and GRzip algorithms with automatic switching by file type...

    • i've tested many popular archivers (7z, winrar) but this acheived the highest compression ratio Helldorado • Apr 2020 Disagree   Agree

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

    Data compression Compression Lossless Compression PNG Compression ... File Compression Compression Portable Add a feature

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7-Zip Comments

Comment by jenniferpalmer831
about 7-Zip · Sep 2019 · Helpful Not helpful 3 Helpful Report as spam

Like7-Zip more than WinRar

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Comment by web_knows
about 7-Zip · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 2 Helpful Report as spam

The 64-bit version is not working very flawlessly with Wintdows 7 64-bit. Other than that,4/5.

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Comment by Anon
about 7-Zip · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

Zipeg is another unpacker but it is built on top of the 7zip backend so I guess its included here.

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Comment by tomaskarban
about 7-Zip · Jul 2019 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

While classic ZIP file is fine for daily use, 7-Zip offers much better compression for demanding situations.

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Comment by lunolas
about 7-Zip · Jul 2017 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Fast and simple file archiver with excellent Windows integration

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Comment by marmotte31
about 7-Zip · Mar 2017 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Love it! It's the best compression software ever :D

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Comment by patmich
about 7-Zip · Apr 2020 · Helpful Not helpful -1 Helpful Report as spam

Because it is super powerful and easy to use.

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Comment by hansencomputers
about 7-Zip · Dec 2019 · Helpful Not helpful -1 Helpful Report as spam

7-Zip is simply the best compression tool around. Why would anyone use anything else?

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Comment by zippy123
about 7-Zip · Aug 2019 · Helpful Not helpful -1 Helpful Report as spam

Works well. Easy to use.

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7-zips context menu in Windows 7.

Comment by Ola
about 7-Zip and Windows 7 · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful -1 Helpful Report as spam

I can't get 7-zips context menu to work in Windows 7. Anyone?

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impossible · Jul 2013

I think I had this before. I uninstalled it and reinstalled the correct files. My PC is a X64 bit and i had installed the X86 bit version. Now i can right click and go to 7zip to extract, also open 7 zip and click the "7-zip" tab and intefrate it to shell context menu...well have everything checked there!


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Comment by realnabarl
about 7-Zip and KuaiZip, B1 Free Archiver, FreeArc · Jan 2013 · Helpful Not helpful -3 Helpful Report as spam

The most popular formats are zip, rar and 7z.

Zip is free, but its features are quite limited nowadays.

Rar has quite a lot nice features.

7z does not have recovery record feature, but that is not very important, for my experience these years, I'm not helped with WinRAR recovery record feature. Internet transfer corruption? I did not experienced that.

The compression ratio is not that important like earlier days. So Rar cannot be called "bad" in most cases. The most superior of 7z is lossless bitmat compression (like BMP).

Do we need other formats?
There are arc format from Small FreeArc iconFreeArc, b1 format from Small B1 Free Archiver iconB1 Free Archiver, kz from Small KuaiZip iconKuaiZip, PEA from Small PeaZip iconPeaZip, if there are more good format, please comment. Arc is better IMO, and it is still in developing. But all of these do not have big difference, and the newer ones do not supported by most archivers. Self-extract archive with exe? Not a bad idea but is it really necessary for us to do that? It will confuses people IMO. So maybe we still just need 7z.

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Bald · Mar 2013

I mostly use 7z unless I've to send data to low-tech guys that does not know other format than Zip.
Rar is also an excellent format due to recovery records, something Arc seems to be trying to do in open source flavor - a nice plus, but I've never had to rely on it, nothing is better than doing proper backup!
There is also Zipx from WinZip, that quite catch up lower range of 7z and Rar compression, but in my experience it is too slow for what it offers.


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Comment by LorDestinY
about 7-Zip and HaoZip · Aug 2015 · Helpful Not helpful -10 Helpful Report as spam

The User Interface is so ugly that it gives me goosebumps every time I see it.

Try HaoZip. You wont regret it.

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albert128 · Sep 2015

I don't understand why some people just won't use winrar...

LorDestinY · Sep 2015

WinRAR is outdated and doesn't support all the formats.
Also it gives that annoying trial warning message.

There is way better alternatives.

jesusmalverde · Dec 2018

HaoZip is sketchy af