The Best 16 Ark Alternatives

  • WinRAR icon

    WinRAR

    WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux Android BSD Mac

    File compression Content discovery Good support
  • The Unarchiver icon

    The Unarchiver

    The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X.

    Free Mac OS X

  • File Roller icon

    File Roller

    File Roller is the archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment. It can extract, view, create and modify archives. File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.

    Free Open Source Linux GNOME

  • WinZip icon

    WinZip

    The world's best file compressor in the world. Start saving your time with the world's #1 compression software. Zip, protect, manage and share all your files quickly and easily.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

  • FreeArc icon

    FreeArc

    FreeArc is a free and open source file archiver developed by Bulat Ziganshin.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • BetterZip icon

    BetterZip

    Extract Only Files You Really Need. Create Archives. Update Archives. Protect Your Data. Open Archives Without Extracting (ZIP, SIT, TAR, GZip, BZip2, RAR, 7-Zip, CPIO, ARJ, LZH/LHA, JAR, WAR, CAB, ISO, CHM).

    Commercial Mac OS X

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    p7zip

    p7zip is a port of the command line version of the 7-Zip file archiver to POSIX-conforming operating systems like Unix (Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Cygwin, AIX, ...), MacOS X and also for BeOS and Amiga.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD Haiku

  • Ashampoo ZIP icon

    Ashampoo ZIP

    Put an end to format confusion with a click! ZIP, RAR, TAR, CAB and many more - Ashampoo ZIP opens your files fast and reliably and reassembles multi-part volumes.

    Freemium Windows

  • Free ARC NEXT icon

    Free ARC NEXT

    A new rewritten Alternative for Free ARC by Bulat Ziganshin .

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • unp icon

    unp

    is a small perl script which makes extraction of any archive files a bit easier. It support several compressors and archiver programs.

    Free Open Source Linux Xfce

  • unzipper icon

    unzipper

    Unzipper is a fully-compatible, compact file archiver that opens and compresses documents, images, videos, source code &lets you share large files easily.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • TC4Shell icon

    TC4Shell

    TC4Shell is a file archive tool that supports a huge array of archive formats and integrates with Windows Explorer for the utmost simplicity.

    Commercial Windows

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    eBinderFM

    eBinderFM is a powerful utility that creates digital document binders. A single eBinder can store hundreds of documents. Every file within an eBinder can remain in its...

    Freemium