Alternatives to 7-Zip for all platforms with Open Source 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
- It does the same as 7-Zip and WinRAR but it looks more beautiful. braky • Jan 2020 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com
Built-in archiver Drag n drop Encryption Compression ... AES encryption File Compression Compression File management Portable Windows Explorer extension 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
- 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
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...
- Discontinued
  Latest alpha version from August 2012 - http://freearc.org/history/changelog_full.htm
- i've tested many popular archivers (7z, winrar) but this acheived the highest compression ratio Helldorado • Apr 2020
Free Open Source Windows Linux
Compression Data compression File Compression Compression ... Lossless Compression PNG Compression Portable Add a feature

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Ark

Ark is a program for managing various archive formats within the KDE environment.

Free Open Source Linux KDE
AES encryption File Compression Add a feature

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p7zip

p7zip is a port of the command line version of the 7-Zip file archiver to POSIX-conforming operating systems like Unix (Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Cygwin, AIX...
- 7-Zip is a graphical program and p7zip is command line only Guest • Sep 2017 • 6 agrees and 2 disagrees
- It uses the same engine and compression of 7zip, so if you care more about that than the GUI, this is the best. Guest • May 2017 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD Haiku
Command line Command line interface File Compression Compression Add a feature

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7z SFX-Creator

A simple and easy to use GUI based on 7zip for creating self-extracting archives and self-extracting installers.
- Discontinued
  The project seems to be no longer maintained. Last version, 1.3, released in October 2012, can be still downloaded from Google Project Hosting.
Free Open Source Windows
File Compression Portable Add a feature

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Xarchiver

Xarchiver is a 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...

Free Open Source Linux BSD Xfce
File Compression Lightweight Add a feature

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Engrampa

A file archiver for MATE, based on File Roller from GNOME 2 http://www.mate-desktop.org/ .

Free Open Source Linux Xfce
File Compression Add a feature

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CompactGUI

CompactGUI is a standalone GUI to make using the Windows 10 compact.exe function easier to use. This allows games, programs and other folders to be compressed...

Free Open Source Windows
Compression File management Gaming Lossless Compression ... Portable Windows 10 Add a feature

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Info-ZIP

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...
- Discontinued
  No updates since 2008
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
File Compression Add a feature

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