PeaZip
PeaZip is free file archiver utility, based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, FreeArc, PAQ, and PEA projects, for Linux, macOS and Windows.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- BSD
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- File Compression
- File Archiving
Windows Explorer Extension- Drag and Drop
- Ad-free
- Built-in archiver
- No Tracking
- Dark Mode
- AES Encryption
- No registration required
- Works Offline
- Portable
- Two-factor Authentication
- Command line interface
- AES-256 Encryption
- Checksums verification
- Supports Zip files
- Supports tar files
- Computation and verification of hashes
- Supports RAR files
- MD5 signature
- SHA256
Tags
- Linux
- Secure Delete
- ZPAQ support
- Encryption
- ARC support
- 7-Zip
- hash-checker
- checksum-calculator
- hash-calculator
- unpack
- zipx
- lazarus
- file-utilities
- archiving
- checksum
- expansion
- decompression
- Unzip
PeaZip News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about PeaZip
PeaZip 10.8 expands archive preview features, boosts RAR & TAR archive handling, and morePeaZip 10.8 arrives as the latest release of the cross-platform file manager and archive utility. T...
- POX published news article about PeaZip
PeaZip 10.7 released with built-in text & image viewer, and image thumbnails' displayPeaZip 10.7.0, the free and open source file archiver utility, introduces a range of enhancements a...
- POX published news article about PeaZip
PeaZip 10.6 adds dynamic virtual mode, revamps browser, and improves archive pre-parsingPeaZip 10.6 has been released as the latest version of this free and open source file archiver util...
Recent activities
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What is PeaZip?
PeaZip is free file archiver utility, based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, FreeArc, PAQ, and PEA projects, for Linux, macOS and Windows.
Cross-platform, full-featured but user-friendly alternative to WinRar, WinZip and similar general purpose archive manager applications, open and extract 200+ archive formats: 001, 7Z, ARC, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, DMG, GZ, ISO, LHA, PAQ, PEA, RAR, TAR, UDF, WIM, XZ, ZIP, ZIPX...
PeaZip is released under Open Source LGPLv3 license, free for any use (private and professional), all PeaZip packages are secure downloads and do not contain advertising or harmful software. Moreover portable packages does not need installation: simply extract and use the application.
PeaZip provides fast, high compression ratio multi-format archiving, and a complete, powerful file manager for viewing, browsing and searching archive files, featuring a wide set of data security functions: strong encryption (AES, Twofish, Serpent), encrypted password manager, optional two-factor authentication (encryption with password and keyfile), secure delete, and file hashing tools.
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Comments and Reviews
PeaZip is 7-Zip with a nice user interface. Not more, not less. It's not only better looking, the whole interface seems to be more thought through. I see no reason why you would not prefer this to 7-Zip. I also see no reason why you would ever want to use WinRAR nowadays.
Edit: After some time of using PeaZip, I find the user interface quite laggy from time to time. I think I will go back to 7-Zip...
Laggy? What are you using, an Amiga?
On Linux: No drag & drop to desktop and no multiple selection by mouse, like in Dune 2? In 2024? At this point it's better to use a command line.
Not true.
Sorry, I should have specified that I meant on Linux. The developers themselves say so ( https://www.reddit.com/r/PeaZip/comments/19arb43/drag_n_drop_doesnt_work_on_linux/ ) and at version 10.2.0 it is still like that.
Looks good, but it takes 2,6 GB to install. A bit too much for file archiver...
Modern and powerful . It's perfect
Have had zero issues extracting large ZIPs ranging from 10-15GB with no issues that Linux Mint's default ZIP extraction can't do.
Supports a vast variety of formats, including ARC and ZPAQ for those very high compression ratio needs.
What a piece of garbage. Recently I needed to unpack and copy about 100 files to a folder that required administrative rights. Every reasonable archiver will call UAC once and then do his stuff without distracting a user. But not that trash! He calls UAC and user permission to write EVERY-SINGLE-FILE! After clicking "Yes" around a hundred times I hate with all my heart that trash.
What about the "Do this for all current items" checkbox? I dunno, it seems like very unuasual and weird behavior. I tried to set UAC to most strict mode, then unpacked some files directly to the C drive – UAC popped up once, then I toggled checkbox in user permisson to write files – all files were unpacked as usual.
C drive main folder isn't protected system folder. I dunno why UAC pops for you at all. Maybe because highest UAC profile was set. Try to unpack something to some existed Program File folder with Trusted Installer as owner. And there is no any "do it for all" checkbox.
I have no problem unpacking to Common Files... "Do it for all" checkbox is still there.