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PeaZip vs BetterZip: catalog facts
PeaZip	BetterZip
Free Free and open source under LGPLv3; a portable package that needs no installation is…	Paid One-time purchase of $35 with a 30-day full-featured trial and no subscription.
Windows, macOS, Linux	macOS
Works with 200+ archive types and variants and handles spanned archives Native application on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD, with a portable package	Edits archives in place without re-extracting Opens over 30 formats, including split files and winmail.dat
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	macOS only Creating RAR needs the separate command-line tool
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Closed source
License: LGPL-3.0	License not stated
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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