The Archive Browser Alternatives for Mac

    There are many alternatives to The Archive Browser for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is WinRAR, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to The Archive Browser and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to The Archive Browser are Bandizip (Freemium), Keka (Free, Open Source), The Unarchiver (Free) and p7zip (Free, Open Source).

    This page was last updated Nov 28, 2021

    1. WinRAR

      • Freemium • Proprietary
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      WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.
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    2. 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.
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    4. Keka is the macOS file archiver.
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      Keka vs The Archive Browser opinions
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      lynx "The Archive Browser is a program that lets you browse the contents of archives." - Keka not. You have to unzip the files into a folder.
      Negative comment • almost 4 years ago

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    5. 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.
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      The Unarchiver vs The Archive Browser opinions
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      Does not allow browsing archives without extracting.
      Negative comment • over 3 years ago

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    6. 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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    8. Extract Only Files You Really Need. Create Archives. Update Archives. Protect Your Data. Open Archives Without Extracting (ZIP, SIT, TAR, GZip, BZip2, RAR, 7-Zip, CPIO, ARJ, LZH/LHA, JAR, WAR, CAB, ISO, CHM).

    9. Info-ZIP

      • Free • Open Source
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      Info-ZIP is a set of open-source software to handle ZIP archives. It has been in circulation since 1989.

      Discontinued

      No updates since 2008

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    10. WinZip

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      The world's best file compressor in the world. Start saving your time with the world's #1 compression software. Zip, protect, manage and share all your files quickly and easily.
    11. ?? Extract Archives: So you downloaded this file you can't open? Don't be fooled by the name — Archiver is a highly versatile unarchiver that can unpack pretty much any archive you throw at it.
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    12. Zipeg

      • Free • Open Source
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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.

      Discontinued

      The program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.9.4, released in July 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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