WinZip Alternatives

WinZip is described as 'A file archiver tool enabling compression and decompression, supporting ZIP and ZIPX formats, allowing file encryption and secure sharing via multiple platforms' and is a popular File Archiver in the file management category. There are more than 100 alternatives to WinZip for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Web-based apps. The best WinZip alternative is 7-Zip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WinZip are PeaZip, WinRAR, NanaZip and Bandizip.

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  1. p7zip icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  2. File Roller icon
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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.

    87 File Roller alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  3. 7-Zip ZS icon
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    7-Zip with support for Zstandard, Brotli, Lz4, Lz5 and Lizard Compression. Open source under LGPL-2.1 license.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
    • B1 Free Archiver is the most popular Web-based & Android Tablet alternative to WinZip.

    • B1 Free Archiver is Free and ProprietaryWinZip is Paid and Proprietary
  5. Ark icon
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    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).

    39 Ark alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • Windows
     
  6. IZArc icon
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    Zip Utility - NEWS since - "Version 4.2 = NO MORE ADWARE. IZARC INSTALLER IS COMPLETELY ADWARE FREE" No bundleware that is showing in description.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • IZArc is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to WinZip.

    • IZArc is Free and ProprietaryWinZip is Paid and Proprietary
  7. PowerArchiver icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Grizzly icon
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    Grizzly is an open-source macOS application designed for browsing and extracting ZIP archives with speed and ease. It provides a clean, Finder-style interface with native system integrations to simplify ZIP file management.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. 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
     
  10. Xarchiver icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  11. Zipware icon
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    Zipware is simple and free zip software for Microsoft Windows that supports all major archiving formats including the new RAR5 format.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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