
8 Zip Alternatives
8 Zip is described as 'Out with the old, in with the new. The powerful archiver 8 Zip has expanded its set of capabilities with the new Continuum and Windows Hello technologies' and is a File Archiver in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to 8 Zip for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best 8 Zip alternative is 7-Zip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like 8 Zip are PeaZip, WinRAR, NanaZip and MacPacker.
Alternatives list

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


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A simple and easy to use GUI based on 7zip for creating self-extracting archives and self-extracting installers.

Explzh for Windows is a file operation tool created with the concept of treating archive files, CD-ROM virtual disk images (ISO-9660 / ISO-13346), and FTP hosts as virtual folders and handling them like an explorer.



- 92 IZArc alternatives
Zip Utility - NEWS since - "Version 4.2 = NO MORE ADWARE. IZARC INSTALLER IS COMPLETELY ADWARE FREE" No bundleware that is showing in description.


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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 environment and would operate using the command line rather than API calls.


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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
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
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
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows

AppCompactor allows you to easily compress applications to decrease size on disk and increase performance when running from slow media, like flash drives. It's packaged as a portable app, so you can work with your apps anywhere.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- PortableApps.com

WinArchiver is a powerful archive utility, which can open, create, and manage archive files. It supports almost all archive formats, including zip, rar, 7z, iso, and other popular formats. WinArchiver can also mount the archive to a virtual drive without extraction.


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- 84 PowerArchiver alternatives
PowerArchiver is a proprietary file archiver for Microsoft Windows. It supports full read-write access to several different archive formats, including ZIP, 7z and Tar. Additionally, read-only (decompression) support includes RAR, ACE and various disk image formats.

zpaq is a free and open source incremental, journaling command-line archiver for Windows, Linux and Mac OS/X.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux



























