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PeaZip

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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.

PeaZip

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • IT flagItaly
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Chrome OS
  • BSD
  • Flathub
  • PortableApps.com
3.9 / 5 Avg rating (47)
630likes
44comments

Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  File Compression
  2.  File Archiving
  3. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
  4.  Drag and Drop
  5.  Built-in archiver
  6.  Ad-free
  7.  No Tracking
  8.  AES Encryption
  9.  Dark Mode
  10.  No registration required
  11.  Works Offline
  12.  Portable
  13.  Two-factor Authentication
  14.  Command line interface
  15.  AES-256 Encryption
  16.  Supports Zip files
  17.  Supports tar files
  18.  Checksums verification
  19.  Computation and verification of hashes
  20.  Supports RAR files
  21.  SHA256
  22.  MD5 signature

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  • Bobby_Reggine, nu1iess3, u7741339 and rgnos liked PeaZip
    14 days ago
  • Leonart and Imalthica liked PeaZip
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Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: PeaZip, appreciated for its attractive and intuitive user interface, supports over 200 archive formats, making it versatile for both casual and technical users. While some praise its features, such as keyfile encryption and seamless Linux integration, criticisms include slow performance and complexity due to its advanced options. Users suggest improvements like a simplified interface. Issues with speed, especially when compared to rivals like 7-Zip, are recurrent in the feedback.
Top Positive Comment
CaptainHindsight
Dec 15, 2011
12

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...

kendo friendo
Jan 15, 2025

Laggy? What are you using, an Amiga?

Top Negative Comment
Guastardo
Oct 12, 2024
0

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.

kendo friendo
Jan 15, 2025

Not true.

Guastardo
Jan 15, 2025

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.

Gwrvan Barré
Jan 4, 2025
0

Modern and powerful . It's perfect

Mr. Anon
Oct 29, 2024
0

Have had zero issues extracting large ZIPs ranging from 10-15GB with no issues that Linux Mint's default ZIP extraction can't do.

szpijon
Aug 19, 2024
1

Supports a vast variety of formats, including ARC and ZPAQ for those very high compression ratio needs.

gregoryem
Jun 3, 2024
-3

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.

Cubium
Aug 5, 2024

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.

gregoryem
Aug 5, 2024

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.

Cubium
Nov 4, 2024

I have no problem unpacking to Common Files... "Do it for all" checkbox is still there.

Glussa
Apr 19, 2024
0

Not bad after using WinRar, yet not good after 7zip. 7zip is faster and opens more archives, meanwhile Windows Explorer and PeaZip return errors. But the great advantage is nice interface and more settings.

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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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PeaZip information

  • Developed by

    IT flagPeaZip srl
  • Licensing

    Open Source (LGPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.9 (47 ratings)
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  • News

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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GitHub repository

  •  5,265 Stars
  •  285 Forks
  •  16 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 9, 2025 
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Our users have written 44 comments and reviews about PeaZip, and it has gotten 630 likes

PeaZip was added to AlternativeTo by PaneTrez on Apr 14, 2009 and this page was last updated Nov 8, 2024.