Alternatives to WinRAR for Linux with any license

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...
- It is free, works very good and open more kind of files williambrown • Mar 2018 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- 7-Zip is much faster than winrar and has better compression. God bless 7-zip!!! Guest • Dec 2016 • 15 agrees and 0 disagrees
- 7-Zip is highly efficient, open source archiver. KuboFHromoslav • May 2017 • 11 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Eventually .7z will be the replacement since it's has a better compression algorithm InsaneFromEarth • Jun 2016 • 17 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Free and open source, powerful, and with great support for different file formats. Guest • Jun 2017 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Faster and lighter compression software. Guest • Nov 2017
- Because it's free and have 7z algorithm. Guest • Aug 2017
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Lightweight AES encryption File Compression Benchmarks ... Built-in File Manager Context Menu extension Encrypted backups Encryption Windows Explorer integration File Compression Compression Installer extraction Portable Shell integration Support for Unicode Add a feature

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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.
- 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
- 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 2 disagrees
- It is fast, has many file extensions and always updated. don1 • Feb 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com
AES encryption Drag n drop Encryption File Compression ... Compression Portable Add a feature

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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 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Linux GNOME
File Compression Compression Add a feature

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p7zip

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...

Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD Haiku
Command line interface File Compression Compression Add a feature

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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...
- Discontinued Latest alpha version from August 2012 - http://freearc.org/history/changelog_full.htm
Free Open Source Windows Linux
File Compression Compression Portable 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...
- Bundleware Be careful during the installation: https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/
- it does not uncompress files more than 500MB Guest • Jul 2015 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... Android Tablet
File Compression Compression Add a feature

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Ark

Ark is a program for managing various archive formats within the KDE environment.

Free Open Source Linux KDE
AES encryption File Compression Add a feature

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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...

Free Mac Windows Linux Wine
Drag n drop Windows Explorer integration File Compression Add a feature

29 Like
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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Engrampa

A file archiver for MATE, based on File Roller from GNOME 2 http://www.mate-desktop.org/ .

Free Open Source Linux Xfce
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
Compression Add a feature

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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
No features added Add a feature

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Free ARC NEXT

A new rewritten Alternative for Free ARC by Bulat Ziganshin .

Free Open Source Windows Linux
File Compression Add a feature

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