Alternatives to Engrampa
The MATE desktop's graphical archive manager for creating, browsing and extracting compressed files. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Engrampa
The MATE desktop's graphical archive manager for creating, browsing and extracting compressed files.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Engrampa.
File Roller
The GNOME desktop's archive manager for creating, browsing and extracting compressed archives.
File Roller is the GNOME desktop's GPL archive manager, from which MATE's archiver descends, integrated with GNOME rather than Caja.
Xarchiver
A lightweight GTK archive manager for Linux and FreeBSD that works independently of the desktop environment.
Xarchiver is a lightweight GTK archive manager that works independently of any desktop environment, suiting Xfce or LXDE, and also runs on FreeBSD.
Ark
KDE's graphical archive manager for browsing, creating, extracting and modifying compressed archives.
Ark is KDE's archive manager with content previews and frequent releases, also available on Windows, but it fits best in a KDE Plasma desktop.
Arqiver
A simple Qt archive manager for Linux built on libarchive, gzip and 7z.
Arqiver is a small Qt archive manager built on bsdtar and 7z, fitting LXQt and other lightweight Qt desktops rather than MATE.
PeaZip
A cross-platform archive manager that reads over two hundred formats and has a real file manager built in.
PeaZip reads over 200 formats on Linux, Windows and macOS with a built-in file manager, though its interface is busier than Engrampa's.
Deepin Archive Manager
A lightweight Linux archive manager from the Deepin desktop for creating and extracting archives.
Deepin Archive Manager is a simple Linux archiver with many translations that depends on Deepin's DTK libraries and suits the Deepin desktop.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
bsdtar (libarchive)
Command-line archivers built on libarchive that read and write tar, zip, cpio, ISO and more.
p7zip
Command-line port of 7-Zip's compression tools for POSIX systems.
archivemount
A FUSE filesystem that mounts tar, zip and other archives so they can be browsed like folders.
GNU Tar
The GNU command-line tool for creating, extracting, updating and listing tar archives.
