Open and explore ZIP, 7z, RAR, and many more archives without extracting. Create and edit archives with encryption and advanced compression. Open, search, and share files directly from the archive.




Zipware is described as 'Is simple and free zip software for Microsoft Windows that supports all major archiving formats including the new RAR5 format' and is a File Archiver in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Zipware for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and BSD apps. The best Zipware alternative is 7-Zip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Zipware are PeaZip, WinRAR, NanaZip and Bandizip.
Open and explore ZIP, 7z, RAR, and many more archives without extracting. Create and edit archives with encryption and advanced compression. Open, search, and share files directly from the archive.




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.




7-Zip with support for Zstandard, Brotli, Lz4, Lz5 and Lizard Compression. Open source under LGPL-2.1 license.




Supports creating and extracting over 30 archive formats, enables archive editing, strong AES-256 encryption, password management, Finder and sharing integration, preview without extraction, Windows compatibility features, ePub modification, and split file joining.




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.

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

Zip Utility - NEWS since - "Version 4.2 = NO MORE ADWARE. IZARC INSTALLER IS COMPLETELY ADWARE FREE" No bundleware that is showing in description.





Explzh for Windows is a file operation tool created with the concept of treating archive files, CD-ROM virtual disk images (ISO-9660 / ISO-13346), and FTP hosts as virtual folders and handling them like an explorer.



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.




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.