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7-Zip vs PeaZip: catalog facts
7-Zip	PeaZip
Free Free software with open source. The site states you can use 7-Zip on any computer…	Free Free and open source under LGPLv3; a portable package that needs no installation is…
Windows, Linux, macOS, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux
High compression ratio in the 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 Packs 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM and unpacks dozens more, including RAR, ISO, MSI and…	Works with 200+ archive types and variants and handles spanned archives Native application on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD, with a portable package
The Linux and macOS builds are console versions; there is no official graphical app on those platforms The Windows interface has not changed much in twenty years	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
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: LGPL-2.1	License: LGPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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