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PeaZip vs cabextract: catalog facts
PeaZip	cabextract
Free Free and open source under LGPLv3; a portable package that needs no installation is…	Free Free software under the GNU GPL.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Works with 200+ archive types and variants and handles spanned archives Native application on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD, with a portable package	Supports all Microsoft cabinet formats and Windows CE installers Finds cabinets embedded in other files
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	Extracts only; it cannot create CAB files Releases are infrequent, the latest being 1.11 from February 2023
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: LGPL-3.0	License: GPL
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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