ZIP, RAR and 7z archives are everywhere, and built-in tools rarely handle RAR volumes, encrypted 7z files or garbled Chinese filenames. From software on this site we picked archivers for Windows and Mac, judged on format support, encryption and split archives, context-menu usability, filename encoding handling and licensing.
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7-Zip.
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The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience
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Bandizip is a fast, easy archiver for Windows from Bandisoft, with a free edition and paid advanced editions.
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Free Zip / Unzip software and Rar file extractor. Cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption. Supports 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, ACE, ARJ, Brotli,...
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WinRAR is the long-running trialware archiver for Windows that creates RAR and ZIP archives with encryption and recovery records.
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The macOS & iOS file archiver.
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The Unarchiver is a free macOS app from MacPaw that extracts RAR, 7z, Zip and many other archive formats.
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Free Zip / Unzip software and Rar file extractor. Cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption. Supports 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, ACE, ARJ, Brotli,...
