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BetterZip vs PeaZip: catalog facts
BetterZip	PeaZip
Paid One-time purchase of $35 with a 30-day full-featured trial and no subscription.	Free Free and open source under LGPLv3; a portable package that needs no installation is…
macOS	Windows, macOS, Linux
Edits archives in place without re-extracting Opens over 30 formats, including split files and winmail.dat	Works with 200+ archive types and variants and handles spanned archives Native application on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD, with a portable package
macOS only Creating RAR needs the separate command-line tool	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
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: LGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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