1. Free Zip Utility
2. Free Zip For Mac

Free file archiver utility, open, extract RAR TAR ZIP archives. PeaZip is free file archiver utility, based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, Brotli, FreeArc, PAQ, Zstandard, and PEA projects. Cross-platform, full-featured but user-friendly alternative to WinRar, WinZip and similar general purpose archive manager applications, open and extract 200+ archive formats: 001, 7Z, ACE. 15/9/2020 this Mac archive utility cannot zip files into new archives. The program is suitable only for extracting the contents of existing archives. PeaZip, in general, is a very good file archiver for Mac and is able to open more than 180 archive formats. P7zip is the command line version of 7-Zip for Linux / Unix, made by an independent developer. Some unofficial p7zip packages for Linux and other systems: p7zip for Debian (and Ubuntu) p7zip for Fedora Core; p7zip for Gentoo; p7zip for AltLinux.org; p7zip for FreeBSD; keka - the free Mac OS X file archiver; p7zip for Amiga; p7zip for Solaris; p7zip for AIX.

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.

• WinZip 1.0 for Mac OS X (November 16, 2010): Initial release is compatible with Intel Macs and can be run on v10.5 'Leopard.' WinZip Mac Edition 2 was released on June 26, 2012. New features include OS X 10.8 'Mountain Lion' support, Finder integration and in-place editing. WinZip Mac Edition 4 was released on June 18, 2015.
• The Unarchiver is the built-in default file compression utility for Mac OS X. Unlike Windows, which only supports the ZIP format out-of-the-box, The Unarchiver handles most major formats.

Download 7-Zip 19.00 (2019-02-21) for Windows:

Link	Type	Windows	Size
Download	.exe	32-bit x86	1.2 MB
Download	.exe	64-bit x64	1.4 MB

Download 7-Zip 20.02 alpha (2020-08-08) for Windows:

Link	Type	Windows	Size
Download	.exe	32-bit x86	1.2 MB
Download	.exe	64-bit x64	1.4 MB
Download	.exe	64-bit ARM64	1.5 MB

License

7-Zip is free software with open source. The most of the code is under the GNU LGPL license. Some parts of the code are under the BSD 3-clause License. Also there is unRAR license restriction for some parts of the code. Read 7-Zip License information.

You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.

The main features of 7-Zip

• High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
• Supported formats:
  • Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
  • Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.
• For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 87 languages

7-Zip works in Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2019 / 2016 / 2012 / 2008 / 2003 / 2000.

p7zip - the port of the command line version of 7-Zip to Linux/Posix.

On 7-Zip's SourceForge Page you can find a forum, bug reports, and feature request systems.

Compression ratio

We compared 7-Zip with WinRAR 5.20.

FILE SETS: Mozilla Firefox 34.0.5 for Windows and Google Earth 6.2.2.6613 for Windows.

Free Zip Utility

Archiver	Mozilla Firefox		Google Earth
	65 files 85 280 391 bytes		483 files 110 700 519 bytes
	Compressed size	Ratio	Compressed size	Ratio
7-Zip 9.35 -mx	39 357 375	100%	15 964 369	100%
WinRAR 5.20 -m5 -s -ma5 -md128m	41 789 543	106%	17 035 432	107%

Free Zip For Mac

Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. Usually, 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. And 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs.