Alternatives to NanaZip

A 7-Zip fork that adds the Windows 11 right-click menu and ships through the Microsoft Store. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as NanaZip.

  • 7-Zip

    The small, free archiver that opens practically every archive format and compresses better than ZIP.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinuxmacOSCommand line

    7-Zip is the upstream project with the same formats, under LGPL-2.1, installable as a portable or scripted deployment, but it uses the legacy Windows context submenu.

  • 7-Zip-zstd

    Build of 7-Zip that adds Zstandard, Brotli, LZ4, LZ5 and Fast-LZMA2 compression.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinux

    7-Zip-zstd keeps the classic 7-Zip interface and adds Zstandard, Brotli and LZ4 codecs, but archives using them will not open in stock 7-Zip.

  • PeaZip

    A cross-platform archive manager that reads over two hundred formats and has a real file manager built in.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    PeaZip reads over 200 formats, runs on Windows, Linux and macOS with a portable package, and includes a file manager, though its interface is busier.

  • Bandizip

    Fast archiver for Windows and macOS with strong Unicode handling.

    FreemiumProprietaryWindowsmacOS

    Bandizip offers multi-core compression and strong Unicode handling on Windows and macOS, but it is closed source and the free edition shows advertisements.

  • WinRAR

    The archiver that created the RAR format, sold as shareware whose trial has never really expired.

    PaidProprietaryWindowsmacOSLinux

    WinRAR is paid and closed source but is the only tool that creates RAR archives, with recovery records and recovery volumes.

  • WinZip

    A commercial archiver for Windows and Mac that zips, unzips, encrypts and shares files.

    PaidProprietaryWindowsmacOS

    WinZip is a paid commercial archiver for Windows and Mac with built-in encryption and backup, sold after a 21-day trial rather than free.

  • PowerArchiver

    A commercial archive manager for Windows and macOS that opens over 60 formats and encrypts archives.

    PaidProprietaryWindowsmacOSCommand line

    PowerArchiver is a paid, closed-source archiver for Windows and macOS with AES-256 encryption and a command-line edition, split across several editions.

  • Ark

    KDE's graphical archive manager for browsing, creating, extracting and modifying compressed archives.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinux

    Ark is KDE's GPL-licensed archive manager for Windows and Linux that previews files without extracting, fitting best in a KDE Plasma desktop.

Also worth comparing

These listings name NanaZip as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Explzh

    A Windows archiver for LZH, ZIP, CAB, RAR, 7z and tar with Explorer integration and ZIP repair.

    FreemiumProprietaryWindows

    NanaZip is an MIT-licensed 7-Zip fork that adds the Windows 11 context menu and installs from the Microsoft Store, but supports only Windows 10 and 11.

  • Zipware

    A freeware Windows archiver that extracts ZIP, RAR, 7z and many other formats and creates ZIP and 7z archives.

    FreeProprietaryWindows

    NanaZip is an MIT-licensed 7-Zip fork that appears in the Windows 11 right-click menu and updates through the Microsoft Store, on Windows 10 and 11 only.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.