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lrzipXZ Utils
Free

Free to use with source on GitHub.

 Free

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

Linux, Command line Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
  • Finds redundancy far apart in very large files
  • Includes LZMA and ZPAQ compression back ends
  • LZMA2 compression gives some of the best ratios available for general-purpose data, and the tools ship on effectively…
  • Newer format is not backward compatible with older versions
  • Gains are small on small files
  • Compression is slow and memory-hungry at high levels, and the 2024 backdoor incident in the upstream release tarballs…
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Closed 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 24, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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