PKZIP Alternatives

PKZIP is described as 'By PKWARE is the gold standard in data compression. PKZIP provides exceptional performance and ease of use across all enterprise operating systems' and is an app. There are more than 100 alternatives to PKZIP for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and BSD apps. The best PKZIP alternative is 7-Zip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PKZIP are PeaZip, WinRAR, NanaZip and MacPacker.

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  1. Hamster ZIP Archiver icon

    Hamster ZIP Archiver

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    Hamster ZIP Archiver is a powerful and modern archival program that allows users to easily compress and open files from any archive.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. Zipeg icon

    Zipeg

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    Zipeg is a universal open source archive extractor that supports ZIP and RAR (among other archiving formats). With just a click you can open a file and see what is inside.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  4. LZ4

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    It features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    WinZip

    A versatile file archiver offering compression and decompression, native ZIP/ZIPX support, encryption, and extensive sharing via email, cloud, social media, integrating with various platforms and formats.

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  6. Unzip One icon

    Unzip One

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    A free, fast and secure archive manager by Trend?Micro—Unzip?One supports drag-and-drop, right-click extraction and safe preview for dozens of formats including ZIP, RAR, 7z, gzip, bzip2, ISO and more, on Windows 10+ and macOS 10.13+.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  7. Kudesnik Archiver icon

    Kudesnik Archiver

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    Light archive manager "Kudesnik". Formats: ZIP, JAR, RAR, 7-ZIP. Create and decompress archives.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
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  8. Squeeze icon

    Squeeze

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    Default archive manager for xfce. It can be used in ubuntu with perfect integration on pcman-fm

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  10. Entropy icon

    Entropy

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    Easily create, open and preview popular archive files like ZIP, RAR, 7z, TGZ and more ( 30+ formats supported ).

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. Beezer icon

    Beezer

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    An archiving tool for the Haiku operating system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Haiku
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  13. Free ARC NEXT

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    A new rewritten Alternative for Free ARC by Bulat Ziganshin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  14. zlib icon

    zlib

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Blackberry
     
  15. StuffIt icon

    StuffIt

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    StuffIt is the right tool for people who just need very basic compression and expansion features. StuffIt has some great features that help you manage your workflow quickly and efficiently. Create both Zip and StuffIt X archives with or without encryption, and open compressed or...

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    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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