GUI Tar Alternatives

GUI Tar is described as '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' and is a File Compressor in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to GUI Tar for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and BSD apps. The best GUI Tar alternative is 7-Zip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GUI Tar are PeaZip, WinRAR, NanaZip and FreeCommander.

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  1. SimplyRar icon
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    A small software utility that enables you to easily create RAR archives.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. CabPack icon
     3 likes

    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
     
  3. Archiv icon
     9 likes

    With Archiv your can create archives in different popular formats and extract them easily. Because of using native disk utilities of Mac, Archiv is very reliable and secure! Password protection make your archives also safe. Convenient Drag & Drop support!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. BitZipper icon
     4 likes

    Unzip WinZip, WinRAR, WinAce and many other types of archives as easy as 1-2-3! If you download files from the Internet, BitZipper is what you need to access them.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. ezyZip icon
     4 likes

    ezyZip is a file compression tool that lets you zip files into an archive. It also supports unzip, allowing you to uncompress archived zip files.

    84 ezyZip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. TC4Shell icon
     3 likes

    TC4Shell is a file archive tool that supports a huge array of archive formats and integrates with Windows Explorer for the utmost simplicity.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. 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
     
  8. PKZIP icon
     1 like

    PKZIP by PKWARE is the gold standard in data compression. PKZIP provides exceptional performance and ease of use across all enterprise operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. ArKiwi icon
     1 like

    A lightweight and very fast file archiver, where you can add, compress, extract, delete, password protect, and blazing fast search all your files.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. 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
     
  11. AutoUnpack icon
     2 likes

    AutoUnpack is a freeware utility that can be used to automatically download, repair, and unpack all RAR-, 7z-, zip-, TS - archives, or splitted files (e.g. *.001). Which is especially useful for usenet binaries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Springy icon
     3 likes

    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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