The Best 11 gzip 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

  • Info-ZIP

    Info-ZIP is a set of open-source software to handle ZIP archives. It has been in circulation since 1989.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • DAR

    dar is a shell command that backs up directory trees and files, taking care of hard links, Extended Attributes, sparse files, MacOS's file forks, any inode type (including Solaris Door inodes), etc.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • XZ Utils

    XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio. XZ Utils were written for POSIX-like systems, but also work on some not-so-POSIX systems. XZ Utils are the successor to LZMA Utils.

    Free Open Source Linux Haiku

  • 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

    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

    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

  • LZ4

    Lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-cores CPU.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • bzip2

    bzip2 is a file compressor that uses the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm. It is only a compressor for single files and not a full archiver.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD