File Roller Alternatives

File Roller is described as 'The archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment. It can extract, view, create and modify archives. File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip' and is a popular File Archiver in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to File Roller for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Web-based apps. The best File Roller alternative is 7-Zip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like File Roller are PeaZip, WinRAR, NanaZip and Bandizip.

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  1. CabPack icon
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    A freeware compression program with which you can create cabinet (.CAB) files. With just a few mouse clicks you specify which files to compress, which compression method to use, where the output files should go and whether or not the cabinet files should span multiple disks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Zipro icon
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    Zipro is a full-featured archive file viewing, preview, decompression, and creation tool, supports the decompression of dozens of file formats such as Rar / 7z / Zip and the creation of multiple file formats.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Effective app designed to decompress archives, like RAR, Zip, 7z, Tar, Tgz, Cbz, Lzh, Lzma, Bzip, iso, HFS, VHD, etc. Supports over 50 kinds of archive files, as well as extract encrypted archives entirely.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Ultimate Extract and Recover is an application that batch extracts and verifies RAR and ZIP archives without the user's attention. Traverses nested sub directories,supports Unicode file names,directories and passwords.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Yemuzip icon
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    YemuZip is an easy-to-use application for making zip files. Just drag, drop, name your zip file and you're done.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. Springy icon
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    Springy is a simple to use, yet powerful archiving and compression utility for Mac OS X. Springy integrates seamlessly with the Finder and includes some very useful features. Springy supports all most widely used archiving and compression formats: ZIP, RAR, TAR, 7-ZIP, PAX...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Free RAR Extract Frog is a beautiful decompression tool for RAR-archives that supports spanned archives as well as the extraction of password protected files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Create Zip Files, the free online online zip solution that provides a fast and quality service for all your zipping and unzipping needs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. GUI Tar icon
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    During the command-line era of computing, archiving files involved cryptic commands such as tar -xvf somefile.tar. However, since those days, the masses have come to use computers, and they expect an easy to use system with graphical elements and interaction.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Mr Zipper icon
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    As WinZip, Mr.Zipper is the excellent, professional compression and extraction tool which supports quick look and personalized settings. It features more supported formats than other zip tools.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. UnRarX icon
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    If the command line is not your thing - heres a GUI front-end for unrar. Drag-and-Drop extraction. Built-in par2 recovery. Written by Peter Noriega.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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