Free File Archivers and File Compression Utilities

Free tools to compress, decompress (uncompress) and archive files


Free File Archivers and File Compression Utilities - Compress / Decompress (Uncompress) / Archive Files

This page lists tools that will allow you to compress, decompress (uncompress), and archive files. Most of the utilities listed here handle the ubiquitous zip file format, and many (if not all of the software listed) can decompress files using a variety of file compression formats.

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Free File Compression and Archiving Tools

7-Zip

7-Zip is a file archiver that compresses / packs to the .7z format with LZMA compression. It can also compress to the ZIP format, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR. It has the ability to decompress or unpack to RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS. For Windows versions, it integrates with the Windows shell (explorer), so (for example) you can right click any file to pack or unpack it. Supported systems include Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and BeOS. 7-zip is released under the LGPL (Lesser General Public License).

IZArc

IZArc is an archive utility that supports the following archive formats: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, and ZOO. It has Windows shell integration, can create multiple archives spanning disks as well as self-extracting archives. It also has the ability to repair damaged zip archives, convert archives from one type to another, view and write comments, etc. Supported systems include Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP and 2003.

Info-ZIP

Info-ZIP provides both command line zip and unzip utilities as well as graphical front-ends (GUI shells) to run those tools. Ports of this open source software are available for a variety of operating systems, including Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/CE/etc (even Windows 3.x), Linux, MSDOS, FreeDOS, Mac OS, Mac OS X, Amiga, Atari, BeOS, FlexOS, Human68K (X68000), MVS / OS/390 Open Edition, Novell Netware, OS/2, QDOS / SMSQ, RISC OS, Tandem NSK, AIX, CLIX, Convex, Digital Unix (OSF/1, Tru64), Unix, FreeBSD, HP-UX / MPE/iX, NetBSD, QNX, SCO Unix, SGI Irix, Solaris / SunOS, VM/CMS, VMS, etc. The tools zip, unzip and WiZ (the graphical front-end), as their names suggest, only handle the zip archive format.

TUGZip

TUGZip is an archiving utility for Windows with Windows Explorer integration (drag and drop, shell context menu) that can extract files from ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, JAR, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1 and ZOO archives, BIN, C2D, IMG, ISO and NRG disc-images. It can create 7-ZIP, BH, BZ2, CAB, JAR, LHA (LZH), SQX, TAR, TGZ, YZ1 and ZIP archives. It is able to repair damaged ZIP and SQX archives and create encrypted archives using algorithms like Blowfish (128-bit), DES (56-bit), Triple DES (168-bit) and Rijndael (128-bit, 192-bit and 256-bit). It is able to create self-extracting archives.

ZipGenius

ZipGenius is a free Windows utility that allows you to create compressed archives. It supports a variety of compressed archive formats as well as CD/DVD-ROM images (ISO files).

QuickZip

QuickZip is a Windows archiver that features support for multiple archive formats, shell integration (drag and drop support and context menu), search for a file in archives, rename a group of files using file masks, encryption, repair of corrupted zip files, conversion of archive format, self-extracting archives, disk spanning, etc.

Bzip2

Bzip2 is an open source file compressor. You can find binary (executable) ports of the command line tool for Linux, Windows, Sparc Solaris, OpenBSD, OS/2, Digital Unix, IRIX, AIX, Amiga, etc.

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