Creator(s) | First public release date | Latest stable version | Cost (USD) | Software license | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
7-Zip | Igor Pavlov | January 2, 1999; 20 years ago | 19.00 February 21, 2019; 6 months ago | Free | LGPL (RAR plugin is proprietary) |
ALZip | ESTsoft | 1999; 20 years ago (as a WinZip translation) | 8.51.0.0 (9 September 2011; 7 years ago)[±] | A free general serial number was published on developer's website altools.com in August 2012 | Proprietary |
ALZip for Mac | ESTsoft | 1999; 20 years ago (as a WinZip translation) | 1.11 (June 13, 2012; 7 years ago)[±] | A free general serial number was published on developer's website altools.com in August 2012 | Proprietary |
Archive Manager | Paolo Bacchilega | May 12, 2001; 18 years ago | 3.32.1 April 8, 2019; 4 months ago[1] | Free | GPL |
Archive Utility | Apple Inc. | October 24, 2003; 15 years ago | 10.10 (October 16, 2014; 4 years ago)[±] | Included with Mac OS XCore Services | Proprietary |
Ark | KDE team | 1997 | 19.4.3 July 9, 2019; 60 days ago | Free | GPL |
B1 Free Archiver | Adam Buyer | August 2011; 8 years ago | 1.5.86 November 25, 2013; 5 years ago | Free | Proprietary |
BetterZip | BetterZip | May 2006; 13 years ago | 2.3.4 (December 1, 2014; 4 years ago[2])[±] | $19.95 USD | Proprietary |
Commander One | Eltima Software | August 4, 2015; 4 years ago | 1.1 September 29, 2015; 3 years ago | Standard Free; $29.95 Pro Pack | Proprietary |
Compressed Folders | Microsoft Inc. | June 25, 1998; 21 years ago | Windows 8.1 August 27, 2013; 6 years ago | Included in Microsoft WindowsWindows Explorer shell since Windows Me. | Proprietary |
CRAX Commander | Soft4U2 | September 1, 2013; 6 years ago | 1.10.9 March 2, 2016; 3 years ago | $19.99 USD | Proprietary |
Disk ARchiver | Denis Corbin | 2002; 17 years ago | 2.5.14 December 20, 2017; 20 months ago | Free | GPL |
Expander | Haiku, Inc. | 2002; 17 years ago | R1 Alpha 4.1 (November 14, 2012)[±] | Free | MIT |
Filzip | Philipp Engel | Unknown | 3.06 (July 19, 2006; 13 years ago)[±] | Free | Proprietary |
FreeArc | Bulat Ziganshin | November 1, 2007; 11 years ago v0.36 | 0.666 (May 20, 2010; 9 years ago) | Free | GPL |
iArchiver | Dare to be Creative Ltd. | October 21, 2007; 11 years ago | 1.4.1 October 30, 2008; 10 years ago | $26 | Proprietary |
Info-ZIP (Wzip) | Samuel Smith | March 1989; 30 years ago | 6.0 April 29, 2009; 10 years ago | Free | BSD-like |
KGB Archiver | Tomasz Pawlak | April 1, 2006; 13 years ago | 1.2.1.24 November 1, 2006; 12 years ago | Free | GPL |
PeaZip | Giorgio Tani | September 16, 2006; 12 years ago | 6.9.2 September 1, 2019; 6 days ago | Free | LGPL |
PKZIP | Phil Katz | 1989; 30 years ago | 12.4[3] (ca. September 2009; 10 years ago) | $29.00 | Proprietary |
PowerArchiver | ConexWare | March 1999; 20 years ago | 17.01.04 October 5, 2017; 23 months ago | $22.95 | Proprietary |
StuffIt | Smith Micro Software | 1987; 32 years ago | 15.0.7 December 1, 2011; 7 years ago[4] | Free expander; $49.99 Deluxe,[5] $79.99 French Deluxe;[6] Windows: $14.99 Standard,[7] $29.99 Deluxe,[8] $49.99 French (or German) Deluxe[9][10] | Proprietary |
TAR | AT&T | 1979; 40 years ago | GNU tar: ; star: 1.5.3; BSD tar: 2.6.0 | Free | Various |
The Unarchiver | Circlesoft | July 1, 2006; 13 years ago | 3.11.3 September 16, 2017; 23 months ago | Free | Proprietary |
Terse | IBM | July 1, 1984; 35 years ago | Free | Proprietary | |
TUGZip | Christian Kindahl | August 18, 2002; 17 years ago | 3.5.0.0 April 2, 2008; 11 years ago | Free | Proprietary |
WinAce | e-merge GmbH | Unknown | 2.69 November 23, 2007; 11 years ago | Free expander (GNU/Linux & Mac only); $29.00 Standard; $39.00 Plus | Proprietary |
WinRAR | Eugene Roshal / Alexander Roshal | 1993; 26 years ago | 5.71 (April 29, 2019; 4 months ago[11])[±] | Free expander; $29[12] | Proprietary |
WinZip | WinZip Computing, Inc | 1991; 28 years ago | 23.0.13431 (March 18, 2019; 5 months ago)[±] | $29.95 Standard; $49.95 Pro | Proprietary |
XAD a.k.a. XADMaster.library | Dirk Stoecker | 1998; 21 years ago | 13.1 | Shareware, Free for non commercial use | Proprietary |
Xarchiver | Giuseppe Torelli | Unknown | 0.5.4 September 14, 2014; 4 years ago | Free | GPL |
ZipGenius | Matteo Riso of M.Dev Software | May 2003; 16 years ago | 6.3.2.3112 August 8, 2014; 5 years ago | Free | Proprietary |
Creator(s) | First public release date | Latest stable version | Cost (USD) | Software license |
Windows | DOS | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Other Unix | AmigaOS | Android | Windows Mobile | Windows Phone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7-Zip | Yes[1] | Command-line interface[2] | Yes[2] | Yes[2] | Command-line interface[2] | Command-line interface[2] | Command-line interface | No | Yes | No |
ALZip | Yes | Command-line interface[13] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
ALZip for Mac | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Archive Manager | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Archive Utility | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Ark | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
B1 Free Archiver | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
BetterZip | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
bsdtar/libarchive | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Unknown | Unknown | No |
Commander One | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
CRAX Commander | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Disk ARchiver | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Filzip | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
FreeArc | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
GNU tar | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
iArchiver | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
Info-ZIP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[9] | Yes | No | Yes[8] | No |
KGB Archiver | Yes[7] | Partial | Command-line interface | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Unknown | ? |
PeaZip | Yes[1] | Unknown | Under Development[14] | Yes | Yes | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
PKZIP | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
PowerArchiver | Yes | Unknown | Command-line interface | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
Star | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | ? |
StuffIt | Yes | Unknown | Yes | X86 only, older version (5.2.0?) | No | older version (5.2.0?) | No | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
The Unarchiver | Command-line interface | No | Yes | Command-line interface | No | No | No | Unknown | No | ? |
TUGZip | Yes | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
WinAce | Yes | Command-line interface[5] | Command-line interface expander only[5] | X86, Command-line interface expander only[5] | No | No | Command-line interface expander only | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
WinRAR and RAR | Yes[1] | Yes | Command-line interface[6] | X86 and x86-64, Command-line interface[6] | Command-line interface[6] | Command-line interface[6] | Command-line interface expander only | Yes[15] | Yes | ? |
WinZip | Yes[1] | Command-line interface | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | ? |
XAD | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
Xarchiver | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
ZipGenius | Yes | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
Windows | DOS | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Unix | AmigaOS | Android | Windows Mobile | Windows Phone |
Data compression | Shell integration | Password protection | Multiple volumes | Self extraction | File repairing | Batch conversion | Unicode file / directory names[5] | Encryption | Filename Encryption | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7-Zip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
ALZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[8] | No | Unknown | Unknown |
Archive Manager | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Archive Utility | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown |
ARJ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Ark | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
B1 Free Archiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
BetterZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
bsdtar/libarchive | No[2] | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown |
Commander One | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes for 7z |
CRAX Commander | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Disk ARchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Filzip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
FreeArc | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GNU tar | No[2] | Yes | No | Yes | No | Separate | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown |
iArchiver | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Unknown | Unknown |
Info-ZIP | Yes | No[11] | Yes | Yes[12] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[12] | Weak | No |
KGB Archiver | Yes | Not enabled by default | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown |
PeaZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[9] | Yes[10] | Yes |
PKZIP | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Separate | Separate | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown |
PowerArchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[7] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
StuffIt | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown |
The Unarchiver | No[1] | some formats | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[1] | Yes | Unknown |
TUGZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Unknown |
WinAce | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Unknown |
WinRAR and RAR | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[3] | Yes | Yes[6] | Yes | Yes |
WinZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[10] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
XAD | No[1] | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Xarchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
ZipGenius | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | Unknown | Unknown |
Data compression | Shell integration | Password protection | Multiple volumes | Self extraction | File repairing | Batch conversion | Unicode file / directory names[5] | Encryption | Filename Encryption |
ZIP | TAR | GZ | BZ/BZ2 | 7z | xz | RAR | LHA/LZH | ACE | SIT | SITX | ARJ | KGB | DAR | ARC | CAB | ALZ | ISO/CD Image | ZPAQ | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7-Zip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[1] | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
ALZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
TAR | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Archive Utility | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No[7] | No |
Ark | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
B1 Free Archiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No[11] | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
BetterZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
bsdtar/libarchive | Yes | Yes | Yes[10] | Yes[10] | Yes | Yes[10] | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
cpio | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Commander One | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
CRAX Commander | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
Disk ARchiver | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Filzip | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
FreeArc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | No[1] | No | No | Yes | No | No | No[12] | Yes | No | Yes | No |
GNU tar[2] | No[2] | Yes | Yes[2] | Yes[2] | No[3] | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
iArchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Info-ZIP | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
KGB Archiver | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
PeaZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
PKZIP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
PowerArchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Star[2] | No[2] | Yes | Yes[2] | Yes[2] | Yes[2] | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
StuffIt | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
The Unarchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Partial[11] | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
TUGZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
WinAce | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
WinRAR | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
WinZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes[4] | Yes | No | No | No | Yes[5] | No | No | Yes[5] | Yes | No | Yes | No |
XAD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Xarchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
ZipGenius | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes[10] | Yes | No | No | Yes[10] | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
ZIP | TAR | GZ | BZ/BZ2 | 7z | xz | RAR | LHA/LZH | ACE | SIT | SITX | ARJ | KGB | DAR | ARC | CAB | ALZ | ISO/CD Image | ZPAQ |
ZIP | TAR | gzip | bzip2 | 7z | xz | RAR | LHA/LZH | ACE | StuffIt | StuffIt X | ARJ | KGB | DAR | ARC | CAB | ALZ | ISO/CD Image | ZPAQ | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7-Zip | Yes | Yes | Yes[14] | Yes[14] | Yes | Yes[14] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
ALZip[6] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No |
Archive Manager | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[12] | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | No |
Archive Utility | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Ark | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[10] | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
B1 Free Archiver | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
BetterZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
bsdtar/libarchive | Yes | Yes | Yes[15] | Yes[15] | Yes | Yes[15] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Commander One | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
CRAX Commander | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Disk ARchiver | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Filzip | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Unknown | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No |
FreeArc | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
GNU tar | No | Yes | Yes[1] | Yes[1] | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
iArchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Info-ZIP | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
KGB Archiver | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No |
PeaZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
PKZIP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No |
PowerArchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Star | No | Yes | Yes[1] | Yes[1] | Yes[1] | Yes[1] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
StuffIt[4] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | No[9] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No |
TUGZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No[2] | Yes | No[4] | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Unknown | No |
WinAce | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No |
WinRAR | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
WinZip | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown | No | Yes | No | No | No | No[3] | No | Unknown | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Xarchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No[11] | Yes | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No |
ZipGenius | Yes | Yes[7] | Yes[7] | Yes[7] | Yes | Unknown | No | Yes[8] | No | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Yes[7] | No | No | No |
ZIP | TAR | GZ | BZ/BZ2 | 7z | xz | RAR | LHA/LZH | ACE | SIT | SITX | ARJ | KGB | DAR | ARC | CAB | ALZ | ISO/CD Image | ZPAQ |
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