Comparison of file archivers Wikipedia. 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 versionswithout add ons, extensions or external programs. ArchiverseditNote Archivers names in purple are no longer in development. General informationeditBasic general information about the archivers creatorcompany, licenseprice etc. CreatorsFirst public release date. Latest stable version. Notes A separate 64bit Windows x64 Edition version is also available. The Unixlike system port is known as p7 p7zip also is provided by FreeDOS. PeaZip is a free and opensource file manager and file archiver for Microsoft Windows, Linux and BSD made by Giorgio Tani. It supports its native PEA archive format. 11 9 110. . . Kilauea Mount Etna Mount Yasur Mount Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira Piton de la Fournaise Erta Ale. Maximum compression features reviewsbenchmarks designed to showtest the best lossless data compression software mainly command line compression programs. Cost USDSoftware license. Zip. Igor Pavlov. January 2, 1. 99. October 4, 2. 01. Free. LGPL RAR plugin is proprietaryALZip. ESTsoft. 19. 99 1. Win. Zip translation8. September 2. 01. 1 6 years ago 2. A free general serial number was published on developers website altools. Download the free trial version below to get started. Doubleclick the downloaded file to install the software. Windows 2013. Dateiformate Dateiendungen Rostocker PCKurse, Dateiformate Dateiendungen Dateitypen, Computerkurs in Rostock. August 2. 01. 2Proprietary. ALZip for Mac. ESTsoft. Win. Zip translation1. June 1. 3, 2. 01. A free general serial number was published on developers website altools. August 2. 01. 2Proprietary. Archive Manager. Paolo Bacchilega. May 1. 2, 2. 00. 1 1. May 1. 0, 2. 01. 6 1. Free. GPLArchive Utility. Apple Inc. October 2. October 1. 6, 2. 01. Included with Mac OS XCore Services. Proprietary. Ark. KDE team. 19. 97. March 1. 5, 2. 01. Free. GPLB1 Free Archiver. Adam Buyer. August 2. November 2. 5, 2. Free. Proprietary. Better. Zip. Better. Zip. May 2. 00. 6 1. December 1, 2. 01. USDProprietary. Bitser. Bazwise Technology. January 1. 6, 2. 00. August 2. 2, 2. 01. Free. Proprietary. UC Browser For PC FREE Download Install or Use UC Browser on PC You might be Familiar with UC Browser if You are a Regular Mobile Internet User. UC Browser is one. Bulk. Zip. Northstone Consulting Ltd. January 5, 2. 01. July 1, 2. 01. 5 2 years ago 2. USDProprietary. Commander One. Eltima Software. August 4, 2. September 2. 9, 2. Standard Free 2. Pro Pack. Proprietary. Compressed Folders. Microsoft Inc. June 2. Windows 8. 1. August 2. Included in Microsoft Windows. Windows Explorer shell since Windows 9. Proprietary. CRAX Commander. Soft. 4U2. September 1, 2. March 2, 2. 01. 6 2. USDProprietary. Disk ARchiver. Denis Corbin. 20. January 2, 2. 01. Free. GPLExpander. Haiku, Inc. 2. 00. R1 Alpha 4. 1 November 1. Free. MITFil Philipp Engel. Unknown. 3. 0. 6 July 1. Free. Proprietary. Free. Arc. Bulat Ziganshin. November 1, 2. 00. May 2. 0, 2. 01. 0 7 years ago 2. Free. GPL4Game Extractorwattostudios. October 2. 1, 2. 00. July 1. 1, 2. 01. Free. GPLi. Archiver. Dare to be Creative Ltd. October 2. 1, 2. 00. October 3. 0, 2. 00. Proprietary. Info ZIP WzipSamuel Smith. March 1. 98. 9 2. April 2. 9, 2. 00. Free. BSD like. KGB Archiver. Tomasz Pawlak. April 1, 2. November 1, 2. 00. Free. GPLPea. Zip. Giorgio Tani. September 1. October 2. 2, 2. 01. Free. LGPLPKZIPPhil Katz. September 2. 00. 9 8 years ago 2. Proprietary. Power. Archiver. Conex. Ware. March 1. 99. 9 1. October 5, 2. 01. Proprietary. Stuff. It. Smith Micro Software. December 1, 2. 01. Free expander 4. Deluxe,7 7. 9. French Deluxe 8 Windows 1. Standard,9 2. 9. Deluxe,1. 0 4. French or German Deluxe1. Proprietary. TARAT T1. GNU tar  star 1. BSD tar 2. 6. 0. Free. Various. The Unarchiver. Circlesoft. July 1, 2. October 4, 2. 01. Free. LGPLTerse. IBMJuly 1, 1. Free. Proprietary. TUGZip. Christian Kindahl. August 1. 8, 2. 00. April 2, 2. 00. 8 9 years ago 2. Free. Proprietary. Win. Acee merge Gmb. HUnknown. 2. 6. 9November 2. Free expander GNULinux Mac only 2. Standard 3. 9. 0. Plus. Proprietary. Win. RAREugene Roshal Alexander Roshal. August 1. 4, 2. 01. Free expander 2. Proprietary. Win. Zip. Win. Zip Computing, Inc. October 2. 3, 2. 01. Standard 4. 9. 9. Pro. Proprietary. XAD a. k. a. XADMaster. Dirk Stoecker. 19. Shareware, Free for non commercial use. Proprietary. Xarchiver. Giuseppe Torelli. Unknown. 0. 5. 4. September 1. 4, 2. Free. GPLZip. Genius. Matteo Riso of M. Dev Software. May 2. August 8, 2. 01. 4 3 years ago 2. Free. Proprietary. CreatorsFirst public release date. Latest stable version. Cost USDSoftware license. Operating system supporteditThe operating systems the archivers can run on without emulation or compatibility layer. Linux Ubuntus 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. Notes A separate 6. Windows x. 64 Edition version is also available. The Unix like system port is known as p. Free. DOS. A Windows Mobile release version 9. Aminet contains several solution for 7zip under both classic and newage Amiga OS. The programs for other platforms are called Unace, do not have the same GUI, and can only perform decompression. Win. RAR is for Windows, RAR for other platforms. This program also has a POSIX version available. General Windows CE version. Archiver featureseditInformation about what common archiver features are implemented natively without third party add ons. Notes Application is only for decompression. GNU tar calls the external programs gzip and b GNU tar. Allows adding a variable amount of redundancy for much better error recovery. See also RAR file format. Extractingadding file andor directory names into archive in either UTF 7, UTF 8 or UTF 1. UCS 2 encoding to support single filedirectory name which contains characters from different languages. More recent versions of the zip file format have support for Unicode filenames. In Win. RAR 3. 6. 0, when opening 7 Zip archives which contains Unicode filedirectory names, they will not be displayed correctly. There will be no problem extracting them, however. 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. Commandline batch compression is available only for ZIP and ALZ formats. UTF 8 filepath names support was completed in release 3. Unix systems, and in release 5. Windows systems. GUI UTF 8 support for full internationalization of the application was completed in release 2. 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. 1. Commandline batch compression and expansion requires free add on software downloaded from the Win. Zip website. 2 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. Many shells have built in zip file support. Windows Explorer has Send To ZIP compressed folder. Since version 3. Archive format supporteditReadingeditInformation 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, b Notes Used to, but no longer does, due to technical and legal issues. Tar implementations call external programs like compress, gzip or b These external programs may be shipped with your Operating System. GNU tar lets you implement your own filters 4, allowing you to use other compression programs p.