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    WinZip Alternatives

    WinZip is described as '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' and is a popular File Archiver in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to WinZip for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Xfce. The best alternative is 7-Zip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WinZip are WinRAR, PeaZip, Bandizip and Keka.

    WinZip is mainly a File Archiver but alternatives to it may also be File Compressors or PDF Readers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of WinZip.
    This page was last updated Dec 2, 2021
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    1. 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
      7-Zip vs WinZip opinions
      Almost everyone thinks 7-Zip is a great alternative to WinZip.
      KuboFHromoslav 7-Zip is highly efficient, open source archiver.
      Positive comment • about 5 years ago

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    2. WinRAR

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      With over 500 million users worldwide, WinRAR is the world’s most popular compression tool!
      Most users think WinRAR is a great alternative to WinZip.
    4. PeaZip is free file archiver utility, based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, FreeArc, PAQ, and PEA projects, for Linux, macOS and Windows.
      PeaZip vs WinZip opinions
      Most users think PeaZip is a great alternative to WinZip.
      Has all features of 7zip and most of features of WinRAR. And it has a GUI.
      Positive comment • over 2 years ago

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    5. 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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      Really Strong ! and free On all my computers !
      Positive comment • over 3 years ago

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    6. Keka is the macOS file archiver.

    8. The Unarchiver

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      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.

    9. File Roller

      • Free • Open Source
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      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 archiving utilities such as tar and zip.

    10. p7zip

      • Free • Open Source
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      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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    11. 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

    12. Ark is a program for viewing, extracting, creating and modifying archives. Ark can handle various archive formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar, 7zip, xz, rpm, cab and deb (support for certain archive formats depend on the appropriate command-line programs being installed).
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