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PeaZip vs Xarchiver: catalog facts
PeaZipXarchiver
Free

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

Free

Free, with source code published on GitHub.

Windows, macOS, Linux Linux
  • Works with 200+ archive types and variants and handles spanned archives
  • Native application on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD, with a portable package
  • Does not depend on a particular desktop environment
  • Handles many formats through the system's archivers
  • 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
  • Format support depends on which command-line archivers are installed
  • Linux and FreeBSD only
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: LGPL-3.0 License not stated
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 20, 2026

Checked September 23, 2026

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