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bzip3XZ Utils
Free

Free to use, with source code published on GitHub.

 Free

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

Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
  • Aims for better compression than bzip2
  • Includes cat, grep and less style helper commands
  • LZMA2 compression gives some of the best ratios available for general-purpose data, and the tools ship on effectively…
  • The .bz3 format is less widely supported than gzip or bzip2
  • Command line only
  • Compression is slow and memory-hungry at high levels, and the 2024 backdoor incident in the upstream release tarballs…
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License not stated License: 0BSD
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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