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ouch vs PeaZip: catalog facts
ouch	PeaZip
Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…	Free Free and open source under LGPLv3; a portable package that needs no installation is…
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux
One command handles tar, zip, gzip, bzip, xz, zstand and more, picking the format from the file name…	Works with 200+ archive types and variants and handles spanned archives Native application on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD, with a portable package
It wraps the common formats rather than replacing specialist tools, and it has no interface beyond the terminal.	The interface is busy compared with the plain 7-Zip window Creating RAR archives is not possible; RAR is read-only, as it is in other free tools
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: LGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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