PeaZip is a free data archiving utility (archiver), based on the open source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, Brotli, FreeArc, PAQ, Zstandard.
The archiver also has tools for file compression, secure file compression, and encryption of the PEA project (from pack, encrypt, authenticate ).
It supports all platforms (cross-platform archive manager), offers full features and comes as a user-friendly alternative to WinRar , WinZip and similar general-purpose file management applications.
Offers opening and extracting 200+ archive formats: 001, 7Z, ACE(*), ARC, ARJ, BR, BZ2, CAB , DMG, GZ, ISO, LHA, PAQ, PEA, RAR(**), TAR, UDF, WIM, XZ, ZIP, ZIPX, ZST. See the full list of supported archive file formats for archiving and extracting.
As a file management utility, PeaZip provides fast, high compression ratio multi-format archiving to 7Z, ARC, Brotli, BZ2, GZ, PEA, TAR, WIM, Zstandard and ZIP files (supported recording formats) and acts as an opener/extractor for 200+ archive types, including ACE, ISO , RAR, ZIPX files, including the ability to manage encrypted files.
It has a wide set of data security features: strong encryption ( AES , Twofish, Serpent), encrypted password manager, optional two-factor authentication (encryption/decryption with password and key file), secure deletion, and file shredding tools.
For more information on file creation and extraction performance compared to other popular file archiving tools, see the benchmarks page.
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