Best Open Source File Compression Software 2026

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PeaZip

Free Zip software and Rar extractor

PeaZip is a free archiver tool. The application provides an unified, natively portable, cross-platform file manager and archive manager GUI for many Open Source technologies like 7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ, UPX. Create: 7Z, ARC, Brotl, BZip, GZip, PEA, TAR, WIM, XZ, ZPAQ, ZIP, Zstandard files and more Open and extract 200+ file types: ACE, CAB, DEB, ISO, RAR, ZIPX and more Features of PeaZip includes extract, create and convert multiple archives at once, create self-extracting archives (sfx), split files, strong encryption with two factor authentication, encrypted password manager, secure deletion, find duplicate files, calculate hashes, export task definition as command line script.

115 Reviews

Downloads: 1,226 This Week

Last Update: 2026-02-07
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Areca Backup

Areca-Backup is a file backup software that supports incremental, image and delta backup on local drives or FTP servers. Areca-Backup also allows you to browse your backups and navigate among different version of the files contained in your archives.

76 Reviews

Downloads: 268 This Week

Last Update: 2015-08-26
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FreeArc

FreeArc combines best 7-zip and RAR features: auto-selected LZMA/PPMD/Multimedia compression, 1gb dictionary, exe/dict/delta data filters, updatable solid archives, SFXes, recovery record, AES+Twofish+Serpent encryption, Linux support and much more...

16 Reviews

Downloads: 365 This Week

Last Update: 2013-04-03
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Areca Backup (fork)

Free open source multiplatform backup solution.

This independent development (fork) of Areca Backup attempts to extend its lifespan by fixing bugs and adding some new features while keeping its simplicity. Areca was originally developed by Olivier PETRUCCI (aventin): https://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/

1 Review

Downloads: 97 This Week

Last Update: 2026-03-16
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Vx7zip

Open source 7zip API for Vxworks, you can Encode\Decode file and get file list from archive, System: Vxworks6.4 Vxworks6.8 email: guolisen# gmail.com vx7zip_V1.0_beta.7z All In One vxowrksZipLib.rar is ONLY zip version , It's about 400K vx7zsimpFinalCy.rar is ONLY zip and Crypto version,(500K)

Downloads: 1 This Week

Last Update: 2013-05-30
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Keka

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15 Reviews

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2019-01-28
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