The Best 7 LZ4 Alternatives

  • gzip

    GNU Gzip is a software application used for file compression and decompression. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding.

    Free Open Source 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

  • 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