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7-Zip vs Universal Extractor 2: catalog facts
7-Zip	Universal Extractor 2
Free Free software with open source. The site states you can use 7-Zip on any computer…	Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 licence.
Windows, Linux, macOS, Command line	Windows
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…	Extracts installers as well as ordinary archives Lets you unpack setup files without running them
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	Windows only Code activity has slowed, with the last push in mid-2024
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: LGPL-2.1	License: GPL-2.0
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 October 2, 2026

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