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lrzip vs bzip3: catalog facts
lrzip	bzip3
Free Free to use with source on GitHub.	Free Free to use, with source code published on GitHub.
Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Finds redundancy far apart in very large files Includes LZMA and ZPAQ compression back ends	Aims for better compression than bzip2 Includes cat, grep and less style helper commands
Newer format is not backward compatible with older versions Gains are small on small files	The .bz3 format is less widely supported than gzip or bzip2 Command line only
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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