Open Source 7-Zip Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to 7-Zip for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Windows alternative is PeaZip. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to 7-Zip and many of them are open source and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Windows alternatives to 7-Zip are NanaZip, Ark, 7-Zip ZS and FreeArc.

filter to find the best alternatives

7-Zip alternatives are mainly File Archivers, but if you're looking for File Compressors or File Managers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Mac, Android + Open Source, Linux, Windows, Windows + Free, Windows + Open Source and Mac + Free. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to 7-Zip.
Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
7-Zip alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. PeaZip icon
     677 likes

    PeaZip is a cross-platform file archiver like 7-Zip, supporting prevalent formats with added features like drag-and-drop and Explorer integration. It offers a user-friendly interface admired for ease of use, while maintaining high performance and security across Windows, Mac, and Linux.

    99 PeaZip alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
     
    |
    12
  2. NanaZip icon
     68 likes

    NanaZip, a fork of 7-Zip, offers enhanced integration for Windows 11, featuring a modern interface with dark mode and context menu support. Although limited to Windows, it maintains a lightweight and ad-free experience akin to 7-Zip, appealing to users craving modern features.

    93 NanaZip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    |
    4
  3. Ark icon
     25 likes

    Ark is a program for viewing, extracting, creating and modifying archives. Ark can handle various archive formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar, 7zip, xz, rpm, cab and deb (support for certain archive formats depend on the appropriate command-line programs being installed).

    39 Ark alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • Windows
     
  4. 7-Zip ZS icon
     10 likes

    7-Zip with support for Zstandard, Brotli, Lz4, Lz5 and Lizard Compression. Open source under LGPL-2.1 license.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    |
    2
  5. FreeArc icon
     52 likes

    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, and also uses set of filters—for instance it can remove repetitions from text.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    |
    1
  6. p7zip icon
     29 likes

    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, ...), MacOS X and also for BeOS and Amiga.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
    |
    2
  7. A new rewritten Alternative for Free ARC by Bulat Ziganshin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8.  2 likes

    It features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    |
    2
  9. ArcThemAll! icon
     10 likes

    A simple software to multiple compress files and folders. ArcThemAll provides compression and extraction of batches of multiple folders or files with simple drag&drop loading. It includes an intelligent UPX compression mode, the support to self-extracting archives creation...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. zpaq icon
     9 likes

    zpaq is a free and open source incremental, journaling command-line archiver for Windows, Linux and Mac OS/X.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
    |
    1
  11. KGB Archiver icon
     16 likes

    KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievably high compression rate. Unfortunately, in spite of its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (I recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
12 of 21 7-Zip alternatives