LZ4 Alternatives

    LZ4 is described as 'It features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems' and is an app in the File Management category. There are more than 10 alternatives to LZ4 for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Windows Phone. The best alternative is 7-Zip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LZ4 are 7-Zip ZS (Free, Open Source), Explzh for Windows (Free Personal), gzip (Free, Open Source) and PKZIP (Paid).

    This page was last updated Jan 21, 2021
    1. 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
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    2. A fork of 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard.
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    4. Explzh for Windows is a file operation tool created with the concept of treating archive files, CD-ROM virtual disk images (ISO-9660 / ISO-13346), and FTP hosts as virtual folders and handling them like an explorer.
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    5. gzip

      • Free • Open Source
      • Linux
      • BSD
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      GNU Gzip is a software application used for file compression and decompression. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding.
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    6. PKZIP

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

    8. Google drive open source ZIP EXTRACTOR

      • Free • Open Source
      • Mac
      • Windows
      • Linux
      • Online
      • Android
      • Chrome OS
      • Google Drive
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        ZIP Extractor is a free, open-source application for decompressing ZIP files into Google Drive. Decompress ZIP files to Google Drive ZIP Extractor allows you to unzip (extract or decompress) files in Google Drive.

      • unp

        • Free • Open Source
        • Linux
        • Terminal
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        is a small perl script which makes extraction of any archive files a bit easier. It support several compressors and archiver programs.

      • XZ Utils

        • Free • Open Source
        • Linux
        • Haiku
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        XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio. XZ Utils were written for POSIX-like systems, but also work on some not-so-POSIX systems. XZ Utils are the successor to LZMA Utils.
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      • zlib

        • Free • Open Source
        • Mac
        • Windows
        • Linux
        • Blackberry
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        zlib is a software library used for data compression. It is an abstraction of the DEFLATE compression algorithm used in gzip file compression program. zlib is also a crucial component of many software platforms including Linux, Mac OS X, and iOS.
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      • File Compression

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        • Windows S
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        File Compression has following features: - Open and create *.zip files - Open and create *.tar.gz files - Open and create *.7z files - Open and create *.lz4 files
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