PeaZip
A cross-platform archive manager that reads over two hundred formats and has a real file manager built in.
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Package managers
- Chocolatey
choco install peazip - Flathub
flatpak install flathub io.github.peazip.PeaZip
About PeaZip
PeaZip is a graphical archive manager for Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD, built on the same open source engines as 7-Zip along with Zstandard, Brotli, FreeArc and the PAQ family. It works with more than two hundred archive types and variants and handles spanned archives split across several files.
Beyond opening and creating archives it converts between formats, splits and joins files, edits comments, searches inside archives, hashes files and exports a graphical task as a command line script. It also includes bookmarks, content filters, duplicate detection and built-in text, hex and image viewers.
Strengths
- Works with 200+ archive types and variants and handles spanned archives
- Native application on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD, with a portable package
- Multiple encryption standards, file hashing and export of a task as a command line script
- Doubles as a file manager with bookmarks, search, content filter, duplicate detection and built-in viewers
Limitations
- The interface is busy compared with the plain 7-Zip window
- Creating RAR archives is not possible; RAR is read-only, as it is in other free tools
- macOS and BSD builds see less testing than the Windows one
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under LGPLv3; a portable package that needs no installation is published alongside the installers.
- License
- LGPL-3.0
- Developer
- Giorgio Tani
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- A graphical archive manager that also handles the odd formats
- Categories
- Compression
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Compression); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 4 sources on file.
Alternatives to PeaZip
Compare allSoftware that can replace PeaZip for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
7-Zip
The small, free archiver that opens practically every archive format and compresses better than ZIP.
7-Zip has a graphical Windows app and console builds for Linux and macOS; PeaZip provides a graphical interface on all three.
Bandizip
Fast archiver for Windows and macOS with strong Unicode handling.
Bandizip offers multi-core compression and strong Unicode handling on Windows and macOS, but it is closed source, shows ads in the free edition and lacks Linux.
WinRAR
The archiver that created the RAR format, sold as shareware whose trial has never really expired.
WinRAR can create RAR archives with recovery records, which PeaZip cannot, but it is paid, closed source and its graphical version is Windows only.
NanaZip
A 7-Zip fork that adds the Windows 11 right-click menu and ships through the Microsoft Store.
NanaZip is an MIT-licensed 7-Zip fork for Windows 10 and 11 with Windows 11 context menu support, but lacks a file manager and other platforms.
Keka
macOS file archiver for 7z, ZIP, TAR and more, with password protection.
Keka is a GPL-3.0 macOS-only archiver with encrypted and split archives and Dock drag-and-drop, but it has no Windows or Linux version.
7-Zip-zstd
Build of 7-Zip that adds Zstandard, Brotli, LZ4, LZ5 and Fast-LZMA2 compression.
7-Zip-zstd keeps the 7-Zip interface on Windows and adds Zstandard, Brotli and LZ4 codecs, but those archives will not open in stock 7-Zip.
PeaZip as an alternative
Listings that name PeaZip as an alternative.
ouch
Command-line tool that compresses and extracts archives without format-specific flags.
PeaZip replaces the terminal with a graphical archive manager on Windows, macOS and Linux, reading over 200 formats and exporting tasks as command-line scripts.
p7zip
Command-line port of 7-Zip's compression tools for POSIX systems.
PeaZip adds a native graphical interface on Linux and macOS, reads over 200 formats and includes a file manager, under the LGPL-3.0 license.
The Unarchiver
macOS extractor that opens archive formats Finder cannot.
PeaZip is open source, reads over 200 formats and can create archives on macOS, Windows and Linux, though its macOS build sees less testing.
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