Bandizip
Enables ultrafast compression and decompression of over 30 formats, supports multi-core optimization, AES256 encryption, ZIP repair, selective extraction, password management, antimalware scans, image previews, archive integrity checks, and Windows integration.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- File Compression
- File Archiving
- Multiple languages
- Command line interface
Windows Explorer Extension- Support for Unicode
- Supports RAR files
- Works Offline
- Supports Zip files
- Supports tar files
- Portable
- No Tracking
- AES-256 Encryption
- Dark Mode
- Built-in viewer
- Drag and Drop
- Desktop Application
- Multi-core/multi processor support
- Auto Update
- High-dpi support
- Password protection
Bandizip News & Activities
Recent News
- IanDorfman published news article about Bandizip
Bandizip archiver utility now has paid versions and ads for the free standard editionAs of today's 7.0 release, popular archiving software Bandizip will now be separated into one free,...
Recent activities
COLMACpulse added Bandizip as alternative to BATCH PREP
LRGEX added Bandizip as alternative to LRGEX-Compress- bandisoft updated Bandizip
- bandisoft updated Bandizip
- Danilo_Venom updated Bandizip
AbhishekJaguessar added Bandizip as alternative to Abhishek Jaguessar File Zipper
NJAC added Bandizip as alternative to NexusForge
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What is Bandizip?
Bandizip is an Archiver for home and office. The Windows version is available as Freemium, while the macOS version is offered as a commercial (paid) application.
Main features • Supported OS: Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11 (32-bit, x64, ARM64) • Fast compression and extraction powered by multi-core processing • Compress, extract, browse, and edit archive files • Supports extracting over 40+ archive formats, including ZIP, RAR/RAR5, 7Z, TAR, ISO, ALZ, EGG, ZSTD, LZ4, and more • Create password-protected and multi-volume archives • Smart Extraction for extracting files to the most appropriate location • Native Windows Explorer integration with Windows 11 context menus
Main features (Professional 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, ZSTD(zstd), LZ4(lz4) and more • ZIP file modification without extracting (add, delete, rename files) • 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
Extraction • Supported formats: 7Z, ACE, AES, ALZ, ARJ, ASAR, BH, BIN, BR, BZ, BZ2, CAB, Compound(MSI), DAA, DEB, EGG, GZ, IMG, ISO, ISZ, LHA, LZ, LZH, LZ4, LZMA, NSIS, PEA, PMA, RAR, RAR5, SFX(EXE), TAR, TBZ, TBZ2, TGZ, TLZ, TXZ, UDF, UU, UUE, WIM, XPI, XXE, XZ, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, ZPAQ, ZSTD and more • 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 (including Windows 11 context menu) • High-DPI support • Dark mode support • Command-Line Interface (CLI) support
Bandizip information
Developed by
Bandisoft Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $20 and $30 + free version with limited functionality.Rating
Average rating of 3.5Alternatives
96 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- Korean
- Chinese
- Japanese
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Belarusian
- Bulgarian
- Catalan; Valencian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Finnish
- Greek
- German
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Kazakh
- Kurdish
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Sinhala, Sinhalese
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Uighur, Uyghur
- Latin
- Vietnamese
- Uzbek
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?
Used to be nice, but they're just increasing ads more and more. It's just pile of ads now.
I unzip things to a desktop folder in one click and don't see any of this on Windows.
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?
Modern Design. The free version includes ads, but I've never seen it except when I first installed it and updated it.