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bsdtar (libarchive)ouch
Free

Free and open source with no paid tier.

 Free

The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…

Windows, Linux, Command line Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
  • One tool reads many formats, including zip, rar and ISO
  • Automatic format and compression detection
  • One command handles tar, zip, gzip, bzip, xz, zstand and more, picking the format from the file name…
  • Writes fewer formats than it reads; rar is read-only
  • Command-line only
  • It wraps the common formats rather than replacing specialist tools, and it has no interface beyond the terminal.
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: BSD-2-Clause License: MIT
No account needed Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 23, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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