Bandizip is an Archiver for home and office.
Main features
• Supported OS: Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10 (32bit/64bit/ARM64)
• All-inclusive compression/decompression/browsing/editing Archiver
• Extraction for 30+ formats, including: RAR/RAR5/7Z/ZIP
• Compressing an archive with password and multi-volume
• Fast compression with multi-core
Main features (Paid Edition)
• Password Manager: Help to manage and enter frequently used passwords for handling archives
• Repair Archive: Analyze a corrupted ZIP archive and collect uncorrupted data as much as possible
• Password Recovery: Recover an archive’s password with ultrafast speed by optimized brute-force search
• Image Preview in Archive: View thumbnails of images in an archive without decompression
• Antimalware Scan on Archive: Detect malware in an archive by safe and accurate antimalware scan
Compression
• Supported formats: ZIP, 7Z(lzma2), ZIPX(xz), EXE(sfx), TAR, TGZ, LZH(lh7), ISO(joliet), GZ, XZ
• ZIP file modification (add/delete/rename)
• Up to 6 times faster compression using multi-core
• Encrypted archive creation
• Supports AES256 encryption algorithm
• Supports compression of 4GB+ size files
• Unicode or MBCS filename for ZIP format
• Multi-volume archive creation of ZIP/7z format
Decompression
• Supported formats: 7Z, ACE, AES, ALZ, ARJ, BH, BIN, BZ, BZ2, CAB, Compound(MSI), EGG, GZ, IMG, ISO, ISZ, LHA, LZ, LZH, LZMA, • PMA, RAR, RAR5, SFX(EXE), TAR, TBZ, TBZ2, TGZ, TLZ, TXZ, UDF, WIM, XPI, XZ, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, ZPAQ
• Easy view of an archive's file list
• Extraction of selected files only. Also supports drag & drop
• Availability of ZIP & RAR format archive comment
• One-step extraction of TGZ/TBZ formats
Various features
• File integrity check test to ensure whether an archive is damaged or not
• Supports Code-page change features
• Explorer shell menu integration
Bandizip archiver utility now has paid versions and ads for the free standard edition
POX added Bandizip as alternative to Arclite Pro
Comments and Reviews
Still using Bandizip 6.25. I upgraded to the latest release briefly but it contains intrusive ads, so I removed it and reinstalled 6.25. Sad, really, as it's otherwise a nice application.
$1`7.99 for a "free" app? I don't think so. How can they get away with claiming it's "free" software?
Right? Why is it free for windows but not Mac?
Reply written Nov 13, 2018
Used to be nice, but they're just increasing ads more and more. It's just pile of ads now.
Surprisingly fast, and with a clean and nice UI. Highly recommended, since the free version already offers enough for most users.
Fast and upfront. Avoids the cuteness and complications of a lot of similar programs.
Unfortunately it is not ad free anymore.
Except in the paid version?
Reply written Aug 12, 2023
Modern Design. The free version includes ads, but I've never seen it except when I first installed it and updated it.