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ouch vs atool: catalog facts
ouchatool
Free

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

Free

Free and open source under the GPL-2.0-or-later license.

Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line Command line
  • One command handles tar, zip, gzip, bzip, xz, zstand and more, picking the format from the file name…
  • One command-line interface for several archive formats
  • Extracts into a new directory to avoid scattering files
  • It wraps the common formats rather than replacing specialist tools, and it has no interface beyond the terminal.
  • Archive support depends on external programs
  • Identifies archives mainly by file extension
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: MIT License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 22, 2026

Checked October 8, 2026

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