Universal Extractor Alternatives

Universal Extractor is described as 'Program designed to decompress and extract files from any type of archive or installer, such as ZIP or RAR files, self-extracting EXE files, Windows Installer (.msi) packages, etc' and is a very popular File Archiver in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Universal Extractor for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Android apps. The best Universal Extractor alternative is 7-Zip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Universal Extractor are PeaZip, WinRAR, Bandizip and The Unarchiver.

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  1. WinArchiver icon
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    WinArchiver is a powerful archive utility, which can open, create, and manage archive files. It supports almost all archive formats, including zip, rar, 7z, iso, and other popular formats. WinArchiver can also mount the archive to a virtual drive without extraction.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    WinArchiver vs Universal Extractor Comments
    wolvenspectre
    Negative
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    Universal Extractor is primarily an installer extraction program.

    • WinArchiver is Paid and ProprietaryUniversal Extractor is Free and Open Source
  2. Xarchiver icon
     28 likes

    Xarchiver is a lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with the GTK+2 toolkit. It was developed with a simple GUI which that could be used with any desktop environment and would operate using the command line rather than API calls.

    89 Xarchiver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  3. ExtractNow icon
     29 likes

    ExtractNow is a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple archives quickly and easily.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
     
  4. p7zip icon
     29 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
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    Discontinued

    The last update is from 2016.

    p7zip vs Universal Extractor Comments
    wolvenspectre
    Negative
    0

    Universal Extractor is primarily an installer extraction program.

    • p7zip is Free and Open SourceUniversal Extractor is also Free and Open Source
  5. Archiver icon
     9 likes

    ?? 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. With Archiver, you can extract RAR, StuffIt, Zip, 7zip and many more popular...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. ArcThemAll! icon
     10 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Bitser icon
     20 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Discontinued

    The last version (1.5.0) is from November 2018.

    Bitser vs Universal Extractor Comments
    wolvenspectre
    Negative
    0

    Universal Extractor is primarily an installer extraction program.

    • Bitser is Free and ProprietaryUniversal Extractor is Free and Open Source
    • Bitser is a File Compression Universal Extractor is a File Archiving
  8. 7z SFX-Creator icon
     42 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. BitZipper icon
     3 likes

    Unzip WinZip, WinRAR, WinAce and many other types of archives as easy as 1-2-3! If you download files from the Internet, BitZipper is what you need to access them.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. TUGZip icon
     19 likes

    TUGZip is a powerful freeware archiving utility for Windows that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files, as well as very powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Info-ZIP icon
     10 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Discontinued

    No updates since 2008

    Info-ZIP vs Universal Extractor Comments
    wolvenspectre
    Negative
    0

    Universal Extractor is primarily an installer extraction program.

    • Info-ZIP is Free and Open SourceUniversal Extractor is also Free and Open Source
    • Info-ZIP is LightweightUniversal Extractor is not according to our users
  12. Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer for wide range of formats. Supported file formats are:

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Discontinued

    The latest version (6.7.9) is from 2021.

    Universal Viewer vs Universal Extractor Comments
    wolvenspectre
    Negative
    0

    Universal Extractor is not a media file viewer, it's primary feature is extracting installers content.

    • Universal Viewer is Freemium and ProprietaryUniversal Extractor is Free and Open Source
    • Universal Viewer is a PDF Reader Universal Extractor is a File Archiving
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