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PeaZipThe Unarchiver
Free

Free and open source under LGPLv3; a portable package that needs no installation is…

 Free

Free to download and use. The software is closed source.

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
  • Opens almost any archive format with no configuration
  • Handles legacy filename encodings that other extractors mangle
  • 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
  • Extraction only; it cannot create archives
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 Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 20, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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