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PeaZip vs Universal Extractor 2: catalog facts
PeaZip	Universal Extractor 2
Free Free and open source under LGPLv3; a portable package that needs no installation is…	Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows
Works with 200+ archive types and variants and handles spanned archives Native application on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD, with a portable package	Extracts installers as well as ordinary archives Lets you unpack setup files without running them
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	Windows only Code activity has slowed, with the last push in mid-2024
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: LGPL-3.0	License: GPL-2.0
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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