Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac

7-Zip is described as 'Efficient file archiver offering superior compression and encryption. Supports multiple formats such as TAR, ZIP, with a unique self-extracting feature' and is a leading File Archiver in the file management category. There are more than 100 alternatives to 7-Zip for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best 7-Zip alternative is PeaZip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like 7-Zip are WinRAR, Bandizip, NanaZip and WinZip.

pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.
AutoUnpack is a freeware utility that can be used to automatically download, repair, and unpack all RAR-, 7z-, zip-, TS - archives, or splitted files (e.g. *.001). Which is especially useful for usenet binaries.


This software is useful for decompress multiple archives at once or creating multiple archives at once.




Allows you to specify the code page of ZIP filenames. This program is great for decompressing non-English encoded ZIP files.