MacPacker
Browse archives like folders. Preview files without extracting. Drag out only the ones you need, or create and edit ZIP archives.
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Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- Supports Zip files
- No Tracking
- Works Offline
- Supports tar files
- Built-in viewer
- AES-256 Encryption
- Dark Mode
- Supports RAR files
- File Archiving
- File Compression
MacPacker News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
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MacPacker information
Developed by
Stephan Arenswald Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
53 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Ukrainian
- Persian
- Dutch
AlternativeTo Categories
File Management, Security & Privacy, OS & UtilitiesGitHub repository
- 587 Stars
- 27 Forks
- 21 Open Issues
- Updated
What is MacPacker?
MacPacker is a free, open-source archive manager for macOS. Unlike Archive Utility — the built-in macOS tool that unpacks everything at once into a new folder — MacPacker lets you open an archive and browse its contents like a Finder window, seeing folders, file names, and sizes without extracting anything. You can preview individual files with Quick Look, drill straight into nested archives (archives stored inside other archives), and drag out just the one file you need instead of unpacking gigabytes. And MacPacker is no longer read-only: you can create ZIP archives from scratch, add or delete files in an existing ZIP and save, or compress files and folders to ZIP straight from Finder. Whether you're a developer pulling a single file out of a build artifact or just want to peek inside a download before unpacking it, MacPacker turns a clumsy multi-step chore into one drag. It supports 41 formats — including ZIP, RAR, 7z, TAR, DMG, and ISO — runs natively on Apple Silicon (macOS 14 and later), and is released under the GPL-3.0 license.
Comments and Reviews
Preview archive contents without unpacking. Unpack individual files from an archive. Finder integration, including preview. Simple, concise, and convenient.