Alternatives to WinRAR for Linux with any license

  • PeaZip

    PeaZip is free file archiver utility, based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, FreeArc, PAQ, and PEA projects.

    • Its basically a de-uglified 7-zip, support various compression formats and has its own compression format PEA (pack encrypt and autenticate) the only cons it has are 1. it takes longer than other apps to open (its not the compression time thats slow its the app opening) 2.it sometimes gives you an error when extracting files and 3. you have to delete ALL of its related files in regedit otherwise it will still be classified as an option to open archived files even after deleting Guest • Sep 2019 Disagree   Agree
    • I've been using PeaZip for about 8 years and during that time I've found it to be rock-solid. I've tried 7Zip and a few others during that time but keep coming back to PeaZip. On installation, PeaZip is vastly customizable and covers all the major archive formats that most people are going to use... classic57 • Feb 2019 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • I think the extract time faster than winrar, also support many file extensions. One of the lightest file manager & archiver that I use. rickysantoso • Jul 2018 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • It is fast, has many file extensions and always updated. don1 • Feb 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com

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  • File Roller

    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...

    • Can't even extract multi-part archives. Can't show CRC or anything at all. Suprised this poor app has that high votes. Guest • Nov 2017 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

    Free Open Source Linux GNOME

    File Compression Compression Add a feature

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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...

    • it does not uncompress files more than 500MB Guest • Jul 2015 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

    Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... Android Tablet

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  • Xarchiver

    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...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD Xfce

    File Compression Lightweight Add a feature

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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...

    • Discontinued No updates since 2008

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

    File Compression Add a feature

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  • gzip

    GNU Gzip is a software application used for file compression and decompression. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

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  • PKZIP

    PKZIP by PKWARE is the gold standard in data compression. PKZIP provides exceptional performance and ease of use across all enterprise operating systems.

    Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux

    Unzip multiple zip files Add a feature

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  • Google drive open source ZIP EXTRACTOR

    ZIP Extractor is a free, open-source application for decompressing ZIP files into Google Drive. Decompress ZIP files to Google Drive ZIP Extractor allows you to...

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... Chrome OS Google Drive

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  • unp

    is a small perl script which makes extraction of any archive files a bit easier. It support several compressors and archiver programs.

    Free Open Source Linux Xfce

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