B1 Free Archiver
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 .b1, zip, rar or .7z archive from your computer directly online.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Alerts
- Warning
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- Android Tablet
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Features
- Supports Zip files
- Supports RAR files
- File preview
- File Archiving
- File Compression
Tags
- Unzip
- archive-manager
B1 Free Archiver News & Activities
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Recent activities
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What is B1 Free Archiver?
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 .b1, zip, rar or .7z archive from your computer directly online.
B1 Archiver supports most popular formats - zip, rar, b1, 7z. Although that’s enough for 99% of cases, we’re working on adding new formats and features to the list.
B1 Archiver is 100% free for both personal and commercial use. No registration, no payment, nothing. Feel free to share B1 Free Archiver with your friends and co-workers.
B1 Free Archiver information
Developed by
Catalina Group Ltd. Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
88 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Pro:
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All in all, probably deserves more towards three stars, but I was looking for extraction progress and context menu support which I didn't find better elsewhere.
I do not understand the power of B1 archives. They are neither the fastest, nor the most compressive. The program can make 6 types of archives. ZIP, 7Z, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2 and B1. I couldn't integrate it with the explorer on "Windows 8.1" x64. The box in its options didn't change when I clicked on it. I played with it for a while, then decided to stick with "Haozip" mostly. Although, I'm always looking for something new in this industry.
Works well with Chinese passwords. Many of the other archive programs I tried did not.
I found B1 super helpful for creating password-protected zip-files on my mac. I'm not in the mood of learning this terminal-stuff and also not willing to spend many $... it just works for me very fine! Thanks
I was tersing B1 Free archiver on my Linux (Lubuntu 19.04) and I think it bad because of:
Tried many of archivers. This archiver for Mac the best of the free.
It's not a bad archiver. It supports many formats, has a nice GUI, and the most important functionality. There is a setup wizard and tutorial that introduces newcomers to how archives in general, and B1 Archiver in particular, work.
While it does have a number of options to change its behaviour, I personally missed more detailed settings, especially when it comes to compression settings for a new archive. The tool can create archives in ZIP and its own B1 format. While for B1 you get at least 5 compression presets, there are no settings at all for ZIP. So it is definitely not the right tool for power users. But what's there seems to work well, including drag & drop, and temporary extraction of files from an archive when opening them – two things other archivers still don't support or get right after many years (such as 7-Zip GUI). Feature-wise, it's definitely a lot better than so many other archivers I tried (particularly on Mac) which make it almost impossible to do anything beyond double-click to extract.
I personally felt that the speed of B1 wasn't the best though. This includes both compression and decompression which weren't as good as with WinRAR or 7-Zip, as well as the GUI, which seemed to become a bit sluggish when a large (1GB) archive was opened (tested on a Core i7 with 32 GB RAM and Windows 7 x64).
If you just need an archiver to extract the odd file, B1 can be a good choice. If you work with archives more regularly and need fine-grained control, look for a more comprehensive tool.