TC4Shell Alternatives
TC4Shell is described as 'file archive tool that supports a huge array of archive formats and integrates with Windows Explorer for the utmost simplicity' and is a File Archiver in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to TC4Shell for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and ReactOS. The best alternative is 7-Zip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TC4Shell are PeaZip, WinRAR, Bandizip and Keka.
TC4Shell alternatives are mainly File Archivers but may also be File Compressors or File Managers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of TC4Shell.
- Free • Open Source
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7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
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.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
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- Android
- BSD
- ReactOS
With over 500 million users worldwide, WinRAR is the world’s most popular compression tool!
Bandizip is a powerful archiver which provides an ultrafast processing speed and convenient features. Available free of charge, and its paid editions support a variety of advanced features.
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
Keka is the macOS file archiver.
The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR (including v5), 7-zip, Tar, Gzip and Bzip2.
p7zip is a port of the command line version of the 7-Zip file archiver to POSIX-conforming operating systems like Unix (Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Cygwin, AIX, ...), MacOS X and also for BeOS and Amiga.
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- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
FreeArc is a free and open source file archiver developed by Bulat Ziganshin. It uses LZMA, PPMD, TrueAudio and GRzip algorithms with automatic switching by file type, and also uses set of filters—for instance it can remove repetitions from text.
Discontinued
Latest alpha version from August 2012 - http://freearc.org/history/changelog_full.htm
File Roller is the archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment. It can extract, view, create and modify archives. File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- KDE
Ark is a program for viewing, extracting, creating and modifying archives. Ark can handle various archive formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar, 7zip, xz, rpm, cab and deb (support for certain archive formats depend on the appropriate command-line programs being installed).
