Alternatives to Archive Extractor
A browser-based tool from 123apps that extracts files from more than 70 archive formats. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Archive Extractor
A browser-based tool from 123apps that extracts files from more than 70 archive formats.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Archive Extractor.
ezyZip
A browser-based tool for creating ZIP files and extracting ZIP, RAR, 7z and other archives.
ezyZip is also browser-based and freemium with ads, but it can create ZIP files, including password-protected ones, and converts RAR and 7Z to ZIP.
ZIP Extractor
A free web app for opening and creating ZIP files, with saving and extracting into Google Drive.
ZIP Extractor is a free web app focused on ZIP files that saves extracted files directly to Google Drive, but it needs Google account access.
7-Zip
The small, free archiver that opens practically every archive format and compresses better than ZIP.
7-Zip must be installed rather than used in a browser, but it is free, open source, works offline and both creates and extracts archives.
PeaZip
A cross-platform archive manager that reads over two hundred formats and has a real file manager built in.
PeaZip is a free, open source desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux that reads over 200 formats and creates archives, but it requires installation.
The Unarchiver
macOS extractor that opens archive formats Finder cannot.
The Unarchiver is a free macOS app that extracts almost any archive format offline and without ads, but it still cannot create archives and must be installed.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
dtrx
A command-line tool that extracts many archive formats with one consistent command.
bsdtar (libarchive)
Command-line archivers built on libarchive that read and write tar, zip, cpio, ISO and more.
ouch
Command-line tool that compresses and extracts archives without format-specific flags.
WinRAR
The archiver that created the RAR format, sold as shareware whose trial has never really expired.