The Unarchiver Alternatives for Windows

7-Zip

The main features of 7-Zip High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ReactOS

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PeaZip

PeaZip is free file archiver utility, based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, FreeArc, PAQ, and PEA projects. Cross-platform, full-featured but user-friendly alternative to WinRar, WinZip and similar general purpose archive manager applications, open and extract 180+ archive formats: 001, 7Z, ACE(*), ARC, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, DMG, GZ, ISO, LHA, PAQ, PEA, RAR, TAR, UDF, WIM, XZ, ZIP ZIPX - view full list of supported archive file formats for archiving and for extraction.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com

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Bandizip

Bandizip is an Archiver for home and office.

Free Mac Windows

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WinZip

WinZip is a proprietary file archiver and compressor. It allows you to easily zip (compress) and unzip (decompress) files, encrypt zipped files, and email zipped files. WinZIP natively uses the ZIP and ZIPX formats but also has various levels of support for other archive formats. With just a click, open all major compression formats, including Zip, Zipx, RAR, 7z, TAR, GZIP, VHD, XZ, POSIX TAR and more.

Commercial Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad ReactOS

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B1 Free Archiver

B1 Free Archiver is a free multi-platform universal archiver. Currently it works on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android; moreover B1 Online Archiver allows you to uncompress .b1, zip, rar or .7z archive from your computer directly online. B1 Archiver supports most popular formats - zip, rar, b1, 7z. Although that’s enough for 99% of cases, we’re working on adding new formats and features to the list.

• Bundleware Be careful during the installation: https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/

Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... Android Tablet

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IZArc

IZArc is the best freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools.

• Warning The installer force you to install a malware program, as written on WOT ( https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/izarc.org )
• Bundleware

Free Windows iPhone iPad

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FreeArc

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

Free Open Source Windows Linux

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HaoZip

Haozip is a powerful free archive manager. It can compress and extract archives in 7z, ZIP and TAR formats and can extract RAR, ISO, UDF, ISZ, ACE, UUE, CAB, Bzip2, ARJ, JAR, LZH, RPM, Z, LZMA, NSIS, CHM, DMG, HFS, WIM, DEB, MSI, CPIO, XAR and other compression formats (almost forty compressed file formats). It integrates into the Explorer menu. Create a ZIP file or TAR with HaoZip 7Z is as simple as selecting the files and click Add.

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 3.0, released in July 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.
• Warning Even if the installer is clean after a VirusTotal scan, the website is reported as malicious by Firefox and Chrome

Free Windows

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ExtractNow

ExtractNow is a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple archives quickly and easily. Why wear out your clicking finger extracting files one by one when you can extract at once? ExtractNow does a fine job of bundling compressed files and extracting their contents in one fell swoop. ExtractNow has a clean, well-designed and easy-to-use interface. To extract files, simply drag and drop them into the main program window, or right-click the files while in WindowsExplorer.

Free Mac Windows Linux Wine

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7z SFX-Creator

A simple and easy to use GUI based on 7zip for creating self-extracting archives and self-extracting installers.

• Discontinued The project seems to be no longer maintained. Last version, 1.3, released in October 2012, can be still downloaded from Google Project Hosting.

Free Open Source Windows

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Zipware

Zipware has been designed to be simple, fast and stable to handle both small and large archives. Zipware also supports many Linux archive formats such as tar and gzip. Zipware is freeware and can be downloaded below. Features - Extract: ZIP, ZIPX, 7Z, RAR, RAR5, ISO, VHD, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, XZ, DEB,DMG,RPM,XPI and more... - Create: ZIP, 7-ZIP, EXE (create self-extracting and split/multi-volume archives) - Create password protected archives encrypted using AES-256 encryption.

Free Windows

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Universal Viewer

Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer for wide range of formats. Supported file formats are: Images: all major graphics formats: JPG BMP ICO GIF PNG WMF TIFF PSD..., over 40 formats. Also RAW images from 400+ cameras are supported. Multimedia: all major media formats: AVI MPG WMV MP3 MP4 FLV MKV..., over 170 formats. Word: file types of MS Office Word: DOC DOCX. Excel: file types of MS Office Excel: XLS XLSX. PDF: Adobe PDF format, plus DJVU XPS CBR CBZ.

Freemium Windows

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PowerArchiver

PowerArchiver is a proprietary file archiver for Microsoft Windows. It supports full read-write access to several different archive formats, including ZIP, 7z and Tar. Additionally, read-only (decompression) support includes RAR, ACE and various disk image formats. Superior ZIP support, unmatched security, and it's now faster than ever! Professional Edition adds CD and DVD burning, FTP client, the ability to create and mount ISO images, as well as added Backup features.

Commercial Windows

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PortableApps.com AppCompactor

AppCompactor allows you to easily compress applications to decrease size on disk and increase performance when running from slow media, like flash drives. It's packaged as a portable app, so you can work with your apps anywhere. It's intended primarily for developers, but advanced users will also find it useful. PortableApps.

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com

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Info-ZIP

Info-ZIP is a set of open-source software to handle ZIP archives. It has been in circulation since 1989. It consists of 4 separately-installable packages: the Zip and UnZip command-line utilities; and WiZ and MacZip, which are graphical user interfaces for archiving programs in Microsoft Windows and classic MacOS, respectively.

• Discontinued No updates since 2008

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Bitser

Bitser is free Windows zip software for managing archives and backups. It supports ZIP, ZIPX, 7Z, RAR, ISO, MSI, VHD, GZIP, BZIP2,TAR, LZMA, LZMA2, NTFS, FAT, MBR, SquashFS, CramFS, MSLZ, CAB, CPIO, DEB, LZH, NSIS, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR, XZ, Z. Bitser also provides a password manager, MD5/SHA checksum calculator to verify file integrity, can search for and delete empty folders and calculate folder sizes from the Windows explorer context menu.

Free Windows

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Explzh for Windows

Explzh for Windows is a file operation tool created with the concept of treating archive files, CD-ROM virtual disk images (ISO-9660 / ISO-13346), and FTP hosts as virtual folders and handling them like an explorer. It is characterized by the fact that it supports almost any library format distributed on the Internet, supports a CD-ROM virtual disk image (ISO-9660 / ISO-13346), and can handle an FTP host like an Explorer by FTP add-on. Major features: - Explorer-like GUI and operability.

Free Personal Windows

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WinAce

WinAce is not just another archiving shell. With it's own powerful compression format ACE and built-in support for other popular compression types like ZIP, RAR and MS-CAB (to name a few), WinAce could actually become the only archiver you need.

• Discontinued The official website is no longer available. Last version, 2.69, released in November 2007, can be still downloaded from FileHippo

Commercial Windows

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7-Zip ZS

A fork of 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard.

Free Open Source Windows

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ArcThemAll!

A simple software to multiple compress files and folders. ArcThemAll provides compression and extraction of batches of multiple folders or files with simple drag&drop loading. It includes an intelligent UPX compression mode, the support to self-extracting archives creation, archives encryption and decryption and much more. It allows configuration of the major elements and uses optimized settings for the rest, so you won't have to worry about them. Dozens of formats are supported.

Free Open Source Windows

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KGB Archiver

KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievably high compression rate. Unfortunately, in spite of its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (I recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum). One of the advantages of KGB Archiver is also AES-256 encryption which is used to encrypt the archives. This is one of the strongest encryptions known for man.

• Discontinued Software no longer updated since 2 years ago. Site domain is on sale.

Free Open Source Windows

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Unar

Unar is a command line tool for unarchiving .rar files. The code of this tool is that which underlays the unarchiving function of The Unarchiver GUI client.

Free Mac Windows Linux

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TC4Shell

TC4Shell is a file archive tool that supports a huge array of archive formats and integrates with Windows Explorer for the utmost simplicity.

Commercial Windows

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UltimateZip

UltimateZip has all the features you need to archive, encrypt, share and shrink your files and documents. With it's flexible and intuitive user interface, UltimateZip is easy to use for first-time users and offers many useful features for power users. UltimateZip perfectly integrates into the Windows Explorer, creating or extracting is just one mouse click.

Commercial Windows

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ALZip

ALZip is a file compression program that can unzip 40 different zip file archives. ALZip can zip files into 8 different archives such as ZIP, EGG, TAR and others. In ALZip version 8, ALZip’s own EGG format, that Unicode and other powerful function supported, can be used.

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 8.51.0.0, released in September 2011, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Personal Windows

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