930 Like WinRAR Good alternative? YES NO 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... Freemium Mac Windows Linux Android BSD File compression Add a feature WinRAR does not have an OS X compatible GUI. Only the WinRAR command line tool is OS X compatible. Guest • Jun 2016 • 7 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree
361 Like PeaZip Good alternative? YES NO PeaZip is a free and open-source file manager and file archiver for Windows, Linux and BSD made by Giorgio Tani. It supports its native PEA archive format (featuring... Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com AES encryption File compression Add a feature
70 Like File Roller Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Linux GNOME File compression Add a feature 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 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree
40 Like FreeArc Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Windows Linux File compression Add a feature Discontinued Latest alpha version from August 2012 - http://freearc.org/history/changelog_full.htm
42 Like B1 Free Archiver Alternative? YES NO B1 Free Archiver is a free multi-platform universal archiver. Currently it works on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android; moreover B1 Online Archiver allows you to uncompress... Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android Android Tablet File compression Add a feature Bundleware Be careful during the installation: https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/
29 Like ExtractNow Good alternative? YES NO ExtractNow is a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple archives quickly and easily. Why wear out your clicking finger extracting files one by one when... Free Mac Windows Linux Wine Drag n drop Windows Explorer integration File compression Add a feature Warning The installer contains malware according to Trend Micro HouseCall: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/539c28b4fe59cf8969f2347463aa791e2cf434275084cdf9ff7084ebe3a4c232/analysis/1496076968/
17 Like p7zip Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD Haiku File compression Add a feature 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 Disagree Agree 7-Zip is a graphical program and p7zip is command line only Guest • 7 days ago Disagree Agree
12 Like gzip Good alternative? YES NO GNU Gzip is a software application used for file compression and decompression. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding. Free Open Source Linux BSD File compression Add a feature
20 Like Xarchiver Good alternative? YES NO 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
6 Like Ark Good alternative? YES NO Ark is a program for managing various archive formats within the KDE environment. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux KDE File compression Add a feature
7 Like Info-ZIP Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux File compression Add a feature Discontinued No updates since 2008
3 Like Engrampa Good alternative? YES NO 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
2 Like SecureZIP Good alternative? YES NO SecureZIP® is an enterprise-grade, flexible encryption solution that enables organizations of all kinds to implement persistent data protection while gaining... Commercial Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone Self-Hosted File compression Add a feature
5 Like zp Good alternative? YES NO When compression ratio is important. ZPAQ is based on the top ranked PAQ context mixing algorithm. zp is a ZPAQ compatible multithreaded compressor and decompresser ... Free Open Source Windows Linux File compression Add a feature
1 Like Free ARC NEXT Good alternative? YES NO A new rewritten Alternative for Free ARC by Bulat Ziganshin . Free Open Source Windows Linux File compression Add a feature
