Comparison of file archivers

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file archivers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. They are neither all-inclusive nor are some entries necessarily up to date. Unless otherwise specified in the footnotes section, comparisons are based on the stable versions—without add-ons, extensions or external programs.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Archivers

Note: Archivers names in purple are no longer in development.

General information

Basic general information about the archivers: creator/company, license/price etc.

File archivers Creator(s) First public release date Latest stable version Cost (USD) Software license
7-Zip Igor Pavlov January 2, 1999 (1999-01-02) 19.00
February 21, 2019 (2019-02-21)		 Free LGPL (RAR plugin is proprietary)
ALZip ESTsoft 1999 (1999)
(as a WinZip translation)		 8.51.0.0 (9 September 2011 (2011-09-09)) [±] A free general serial number was published on developer's website altools.com in August 2012 Proprietary
ALZip for Mac ESTsoft 1999 (1999)
(as a WinZip translation)		 1.11 (June 13, 2012 (2012-06-13)) [±] A free general serial number was published on developer's website altools.com in August 2012 Proprietary
Archive Manager Paolo Bacchilega May 12, 2001 (2001-05-12) 3.36.2

May 4, 2020 (2020-05-04)[1]

 Free GPL
Archive Utility Apple Inc. October 24, 2003 (2003-10-24) 10.10 (October 16, 2014 (2014-10-16)) [±] Included with Mac OS X Core Services Proprietary
Ark KDE team 1997 19.4.3
July 9, 2019 (2019-07-09)		 Free GPL
B1 Free Archiver Adam Buyer August 2011 (2011-08) 1.5.86
November 25, 2013 (2013-11-25)		 Free Proprietary
BetterZip BetterZip May 2006 (2006-05) 2.3.4 (December 1, 2014 (2014-12-01)[2]) [±] $19.95 USD Proprietary
Commander One Eltima Software August 4, 2015 (2015-08-04) 1.1
September 29, 2015 (2015-09-29)		 Standard Free; $29.95 Pro Pack Proprietary
Compressed Folders Microsoft Inc. June 25, 1998 (1998-06-25) Windows 8.1
August 27, 2013 (2013-08-27)		 Included in Microsoft Windows Windows Explorer shell since Windows Me. Proprietary
CRAX Commander Soft4U2 September 1, 2013 (2013-09-01) 1.10.9
March 2, 2016 (2016-03-02)		 $19.99 USD Proprietary
Disk ARchiver Denis Corbin 2002 (2002) 2.5.14
December 20, 2017 (2017-12-20)		 Free GPL
Expander Haiku, Inc. 2002 (2002) R1 Alpha 4.1 (November 14, 2012 (2012-11-14)) [±] Free MIT
Filzip Philipp Engel Unknown 3.06 (July 19, 2006 (2006-07-19)) [±] Free Proprietary
FreeArc Bulat Ziganshin November 1, 2007 (2007-11-01)
v0.36		 0.666
(May 20, 2010 (2010-05-20))		 Free GPL
iArchiver Dare to be Creative Ltd. October 21, 2007 (2007-10-21) 1.4.1
October 30, 2008 (2008-10-30)		 $26 Proprietary
Info-ZIP (Wzip) Samuel Smith March 1989 (1989-03) 6.0
April 29, 2009 (2009-04-29)		 Free BSD-like
KGB Archiver Tomasz Pawlak April 1, 2006 (2006-04-01) 1.2.1.24 November 1, 2006 (2006-11-01) Free GPL
PeaZip Giorgio Tani September 16, 2006 (2006-09-16) 7.3.2
June 23, 2020 (2020-06-23)		 Free LGPL
PKZIP Phil Katz 1989 (1989) 12.4[3]
(ca. September 2009 (2009-09))		 $29.00 Proprietary
PowerArchiver ConexWare March 1999 (1999-03) 17.01.04
October 5, 2017 (2017-10-05)		 $22.95 Proprietary
StuffIt Smith Micro Software 1987 (1987) 15.0.7
December 1, 2011 (2011-12-01)[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 (1979) GNU tar: ; star: 1.5.3; BSD tar: 2.6.0 Free Various
The Unarchiver Circlesoft July 1, 2006 (2006-07-01) 3.11.3
September 16, 2017 (2017-09-16)		 Free Proprietary
Terse IBM July 1, 1984 (1984-07-01) Free Proprietary
TUGZip Christian Kindahl August 18, 2002 (2002-08-18) 3.5.0.0
April 2, 2008 (2008-04-02)		 Free Proprietary
WinAce e-merge GmbH Unknown 2.69
November 23, 2007 (2007-11-23)		 Free expander (GNU/Linux & Mac only); $29.00 Standard; $39.00 Plus Proprietary
WinRAR Eugene Roshal / Alexander Roshal 1993 (1993)
Windows5.90 / March 30, 2020 (2020-03-30)[11]
Android5.80.build78 / November 24, 2019 (2019-11-24)[12]
Linux (command line only)5.90 / March 30, 2020 (2020-03-30)[13]
FreeBSD (command line only)5.90 / March 30, 2020 (2020-03-30)[14]
macOS (command line only)5.90 / March 30, 2020 (2020-03-30)[15]
 Free expander; $29[16] Proprietary
WinZip WinZip Computing, Inc 1991 (1991) 24.0.14033 (February 20, 2020 (2020-02-20)) [±] $29.95 Standard; $49.95 Pro Proprietary
XAD a.k.a. XADMaster.library Dirk Stoecker 1998 (1998) 13.1 Shareware, Free for non commercial use Proprietary
Xarchiver Giuseppe Torelli Unknown 0.5.4
September 14, 2014 (2014-09-14)		 Free GPL
ZipGenius Matteo Riso of M.Dev Software May 2003 (2003-05) 6.3.2.3112
August 8, 2014 (2014-08-08)		 Free Proprietary
ZPAQ Matt Mahoney March 2009 (2009-03) 6.3.2.3112
August 17, 2016 (2016-08-17)		 Free MIT

Operating system support

The operating systems the archivers can run on without emulation or compatibility layer. Linux Ubuntu's own GUI Archive manager, for example, can open and create many archive formats (including Rar archives) even to the extent of splitting into parts and encryption and ability to be read by the native program. This is presumably a "compatibility layer."

File archivers 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] Command-line interface[2] Command-line interface[2] Command-line interface[2] Command-line interface No Yes No
ALZip Yes Command-line interface[17] 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, bundled[9] No Yes, bundled Yes Yes, bundled 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[18] 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[19] 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 ?
ZPAQ Yes Unknown Yes Yes No No No Unknown Unknown ?
Windows DOS Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix AmigaOS Android Windows Mobile Windows Phone

Notes:

  1. ^ A separate 64-bit Windows x64 Edition version is also available.
  2. ^ The Unix-like system port is known as p7zip. p7zip also is provided by FreeDOS.
  3. ^ A Windows Mobile release (version 9.05-alpha onward) is available.
  4. ^ The programs for other platforms are called Unace, do not have the same GUI, and can only perform decompression.
  5. ^ WinRAR is for Windows, RAR for other platforms.
  6. ^ This program also has a POSIX version available.
  7. ^ General Windows CE version.
  8. ^ Also Acorn RISC OS, Atari, MVS, OS/2, VM/CMS, VMS and others.
  9. ^ Bundled with Windows 10 since insider build 17063

Archiver features

Information about what common archiver features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).

File archivers 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 non-tar formats[2] Yes zip Yes No No Yes Yes 7z, zip, rar 7z, zip, rar
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] ZipCrypto (weak) and AES[12] 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
ZPAQ Yes Unknown Yes Yes No Unknown Unknown Yes Yes Unknown
Data compression Shell integration Password protection Multiple volumes Self extraction File repairing Batch conversion Unicode file /
directory names[5]		 Encryption Filename Encryption

Notes:

  1. ^ Application is only for decompression.
  2. ^ Traditionally, tar, cpio, or pax calls the external programs gzip and bzip2 to perform compression; these external programs usually come with systems that contain the archiver. This is the case for GNU tar. BSD tar uses its own implementation, since it also has to deal with archive formats that do their own compression.
  3. ^ Allows adding a variable amount of redundancy for much better error recovery. See also RAR (file format).
  4. ^ Extracting/adding file and/or directory names into archive in either UTF-7, UTF-8 or UTF-16/UCS-2 encoding to support single file/directory name which contains characters from different languages. More recent versions of the zip file format have support for Unicode filenames.
  5. ^ In WinRAR 3.60, when opening 7-Zip archives which contains Unicode file/directory names, they will not be displayed correctly. There will be no problem extracting them, however.
  6. ^ Does support Unicode names, but not under the default (initial) option settings: the user must tick "Use OEM conversion for filenames" under "General" on the "Miscellaneous" tab in the Configuration dialog to enable Unicode name support. Full support for Unicode files names by default is supported only for 7-Zip and RAR archive formats.
  7. ^ Commandline batch compression is available only for ZIP and ALZ formats.
  8. ^ UTF-8 file/path-names support was completed in release 3.0.1 on Unix systems, and in release 5.8.0 on Windows systems. GUI UTF-8 support for full internationalization of the application was completed in release 2.2.0. Optionally, extended characters can be set to be replaced by jolly "?" character for exporting scripts to legacy systems; scripts creation screen informs if commands are ANSI-safe, OEM-codepage-safe (on Windows), or requires UTF-8 compliant environment to run (system, command interpreter, etc).[20]
  9. ^ Commandline batch compression and expansion requires free add-on software downloaded from the WinZip website.
  10. ^ Peazip supports file encryption and file name encryption, although only in certain types of archives, including its own Pea format, 7-zip, zip and Arc.
  11. ^ Many shells have built-in zip file support. Windows Explorer has "Send To"->"ZIP-compressed folder".
  12. ^ Unicode and volumes since version 3.0 (2008). AES since 3.1 (in beta).

Archive format support

Reading

Information about what archive formats the archivers can read. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the archiver or extensions that provide such functionality. Note that gzip, bzip2 and xz are rather compression formats than archive formats.

File archivers 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 Yes 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

Notes:

  1. ^ Used to, but no longer does, due to technical and legal issues.
  2. ^ Tar implementations call external programs (like compress, gzip or bzip2 or any other programs working with abstract streams and supporting the "-d" option) to perform (de)compression, and allowing you to implement your own filters. These external programs may be shipped with your Operating System.
  3. ^ GNU tar lets you implement your own filters , allowing you to use other compression programs (p7zip, ...) and filters (GPG, ...).
  4. ^ Starting from version 11.
  5. ^ Requires external program. More info
  6. ^ Archive Utility itself is unable to open ISO files, but Disk Utility, which also comes with Mac OS X, is able to mount them as virtual disks.
  7. ^ Requires external program.
  8. ^ Only partial support for reading proprietary SITX format.
  9. ^ FreeARC uses .arc as its filename extension, but this format is not the same as the traditional ARC file.
  10. ^ Supports these formats as compression stream of other archive formats like tar.bz2 or iso.xz but does not support the format as an archive itself, as they are not archive formats. See the above explanation for tar.
  11. ^ B1 Free Archiver for Android and B1 Online Archiver support ARJ format.

Writing

Information about what archive formats the archivers[5] can write and create. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the archiver or extensions that provide such functionality. Note that gzip, bzip2 and xz are rather compression formats than archive formats.

File archivers ZIP
 TAR
 Gzip/Deflate ZIPx
 Bzip2/BZ2 ZIPx
 7z
 XZ ZIPx
 RAR
 LHA/LZH
 ACE
 StuffIt
 StuffIt X
 ARJ
 KGB
 DAR
 ARC
 CAB
 ALZ
 ISO/CD Image
 ZPAQ
 Special
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 2018 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[17] Yes No No No No No No No Yes No No Yes .bh (BlakHole) by ZipTV
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 No No No No No No No[3] No No No No No No No ZIPx
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 Gzip/Deflate ZIPx Bzip2/BZ2 ZIPx 7z XZ ZIPx RAR LHA/LZH ACE SIT SITX ARJ KGB DAR ARC CAB ALZ ISO/CD Image ZPAQ Special

Notes:

  1. ^ Tar implementations call the external programs gzip and bzip2, 7z, xz, ... to perform compression; these external programs usually come with systems that contain tar.
  2. ^ Requires rar.exe from WinRAR.
  3. ^ Requires external program(if you are using WinZip 11.1 or earlier). More info
  4. ^ Requires Ace32.exe from WinAce.
  5. ^ The Extractor and XAD are not included in this list because they only expand archives.
  6. ^ ALZip can also write to the following formats: BH, JAR, and LZH
  7. ^ Updating archives is not supported.
  8. ^ Requires external program.
  9. ^ Stuffit supported file formats
  10. ^ Ark is a front-end only and requires appropriate command-line programs be installed. Programs like bzip2, gzip, tar, zip usually come with systems that contain Ark; writing in .rar format requires a commercial program.
  11. ^ Xarchiver is a front-end only and requires appropriate command-line programs be installed. Programs like bzip2, gzip, tar, zip usually come with systems that contain Xarchiver; writing in .rar format requires a commercial program.
  12. ^ Archive Manager is a front-end only and requires appropriate command-line programs be installed. Programs like bzip2, gzip, tar, zip usually come with systems that contain Archive Manager. writing in .rar format requires a commercial program.
  13. ^ If there are more than one, files must be grouped in a .tar before being compressed.
  14. ^ supports the formats as stream compression of other archive format and can create compressed format like tar.bz2 or iso.xz but cannot create an archive in these formats
  15. ^ it is possible to open war and jar files to extract e add/replace file; files war and jar are still valid after that
  16. ^ it require console rar.exe, and the path to it -- specified in Options . it can be taken from WinRAR software . PowerArchiever also doesn't support separate definition of the Dictionary Size and Compression Method .

Uncommon archive format support

PeaZip has full support for Brotli, Zstandard, various LPAQ and PAQ formats, QUAD / BALZ / BCM (highly efficient ROLZ based compressors), FreeArc format, and for its native PEA format.

7-Zip includes read support for .msi, cpio and xar, plus Apple's dmg/HFS disk images and the deb/.rpm package distribution formats; beta versions (9.07 onwards) have full support for the LZMA2-compressed .xz format.[21]

See also

References
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  2. http://www.betterzip.com/version-history/
  3. "Latest Product Updates - Support Center - PKWARE Support Site". Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  4. "StuffIt Updates". Smith Micro Software. Retrieved 2015-03-15.
  5. "StuffIt Deluxe English|German|Japanese". Smith Micro Software. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
  6. "StuffIt Deluxe Mac French". Smith Micro Software. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
  7. "StuffIt Windows (Standard)". Smith Micro Software. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
  8. "StuffIt Deluxe Windows". Smith Micro Software. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
  9. "StuffIt Deluxe Windows French". Smith Micro Software. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
  10. "StuffIt Deluxe Windows German". Smith Micro Software. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
  11. "WinRAR – What's new in the latest version". rarlab.com. RARLAB. 2020-03-30.
  12. "RAR for Android". rarlab.com. RARLAB. 2019-11-24.
  13. "RAR for Linux". rarlab.com. RARLAB. 2020-03-30.
  14. "RAR for FreeBSD". rarlab.com. RARLAB. 2020-03-30.
  15. "RAR for macOS". rarlab.com. RARLAB. 2020-03-30.
  16. "WinRAR and RAR support site". Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  17. "Command Line ZIP Interface - use scripts to automate zip tasks". Archived from the original on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  18. "PeaZip FAQ OS X support". Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  19. "RAR - Android Apps on Google Play". Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  20. "Learn more - PeaZip free file archiver utility". Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  21. "HISTORY of the 7-Zip". www.7-zip.org. 2010-04-15. Retrieved 2010-04-24.

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