PeaZip is a free open-source file archiver utility, similar to WinRar, WinZip, and 7-Zip. The PeaZip download can extract most archive formats both from Windows and Unix worlds, ranging from mainstream 7Z, RAR, TAR, and ZIP to experimental ones like PAQ/LPAQ family, currently the most powerful compressor available. It supports 200+ archive formats: 001, 7Z, ACE (), ARC, ARJ, BR, BZ2, CAB, DMG, GZ, ISO, LHA, PAQ, PEA, RAR (*), TAR, UDF, WIM, XZ, ZIP, ZIPX, ZST
The PeaZip free download is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. PeaZip Portable packages, available for Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems as an alternative to installable packages, do not need installation. Simply extract and use the application for maximum ease of deployment.
What is different in PeaZip?
The project started aiming to provide features often overlooked in applications of the same type.
Be CLI-friendly: bridge the gap between GUI and CLI applications to offer the best of the two worlds, blending the archive manager into a scripting engine to automate compression/archiving/backup/extraction… tasks.
Offer two-factor authentication (password + key file) for all formats supporting encryption, to increase security against guessing and dictionary-based attacks on weak passwords.
Provide a GUI for less commonly supported compression formats – which comes from very interesting research threads in the compression field, like the very powerful compressor zpaq or very fast ones such as brotli, and zstandard – and provide a platform-agnostic GUI for 7z/p7zip on non-Windows systems.
Provide multiple file management features each of whom meets the needs of different use cases, like verification of a wide array of checksum and hash functions, finding duplicates, converting archives, searching in archives, bookmarks, tabbed browsing, etc.
Deploy all the above in a tool that is natively portable, can be used from removable devices or shared on a network/cloud, without installation, and offers the same UX on all operating systems and desktop environments.
