BetterZip

BetterZip is the most advanced zip and rar archiver for file compression, encryption. BetterZip makes it easy to work with zip, rar, 7-zip, tar, and xz files, and it helps with opening winmail.dat files on your Mac.

Create and Update

• BetterZip can create archives with these formats: ZIP, DMG, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TXZ, TZ, Zstandard, Brotli, 7-ZIP, XAR, and — using the external commandline utility — RAR.
• Modify archives: Open an archive and add, delete, rename, and edit files. It's super easy.
• Compatibility: Have BetterZip remove Mac specific files from archives for archives that look and behave well on Windows.
• Edit archived files in an external application and BetterZip can save the changes back and update your archive.

Open and Extract

• BetterZip can currently open and extract over 30 archive formats including: ZIP, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TXZ, TZ, Zstandard, Brotli, 7-ZIP, RAR, Apple Disk Images (DMG), TNEF (winmail.dat), ARJ, LHA, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO/CPGZ, DEB, RPM, StuffIt's SIT and SITX, BinHex, MacBinary, ePub, JAR/WAR/EAR/SAR/PAR/WSR Java archives, CBZ/CBR e-books, GZip, BZip2, WIM.
• BetterZip can also join split files with enumerated file extensions 001, 002, ...
• Open and extract winmail.dat files.
• Open, extract, and modify ePub files. BetterZip is not a replacement for a real ePub editor, but since ePub files are really just special zip files, why not use BetterZip to peek into or even modify them.
• Extract images and sounds from PDF or Flash files.

Preview

• Preview or Quick Look files inside your archives without extracting first.

Protect Your Data

• Protect your data with strong AES-256 encryption. Never email sensitive files unencrypted or upload them to cloud services without protection.
• BetterZip's password manager can collect a list of archive passwords in a securely encrypted password vault and use them automatically whenever you open an encrypted archive.
• BetterZip features a password generator similar to Safari's. Let BetterZip suggest strong passwords whenever needed.

Finder and Sharing

• The new BetterZip menu in Finder's contextual menus gives you access to all your presets to compress or extract with preconfigured options.
• The Finder extension also adds a button in the Finder’s toolbar. Select some files in Finder, click the BetterZip button and choose one of your presets from the drop-down menu to create an archive with these files. Of course, you can also invoke any of your extraction presets on selected archives.
• BetterZip 5 adds a sharing extension to macOS' Sharing menu that lets you compress documents from inside other apps.
• BetterZip 5 itself has a Share button to send an archive to one of macOS' share targets, e.g., attach it to an email or upload it to a cloud storage service.
• BetterZip allows you to add configurable services to macOS' Services menu.