One of the most popular alternatives to 7-Zip is PeaZip, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are WinRAR, NanaZip, Keka and Bandizip. File Archivers like 7-Zip are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and the web.
Open and edit almost any file on Android, fully offline. PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, archives, images, audio/video, code, SQLite and more, in one ~5 MB app with no INTERNET permission.
United States
HanFlow Zip lets you look inside archives without extracting them and drag out only the files you need. It opens 26 formats, including the egg and alz archives common in Korea, and supports password protection and right-click extraction.
South Korea
NexusForge creates .nxs archives using content-aware compression. It classifies every file and applies reversible pre-filters to text, executable code, and audio before multi-threaded Zstd compression, delivering up to 40% smaller files than ZIP or 7z at default settings.
India
Extract a ZIP straight from a link into a folder, without ever saving the ZIP. Chrome/Edge/Brave extension + small Rust helper for Windows. Free, open source (GPL-3.0).
Secure Zip & Unzip is a lightweight, native macOS utility that makes ZIP encryption fast, automatic, and frustration-free. Every archive is encrypted using AES-256 — the same standard used by banks and governments — with no advanced setup or configuration needed.
Fast archive browsing, extraction and compression, with file previews and a simple native interface for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
A library for some loosely related Microsoft compression formats, CAB, CHM, HLP, LIT, KWAJ and SZDD.
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.
