PeaZip is a free auxiliary data archiving program (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 PEA project encryption (from pack, encrypt, authenticate).
It supports all platforms (cross-platform archive manager), offers full features and comes as a user-friendly alternative to applications WinRAR, WinZip and similar general purpose file management applications.
Offers opening and exporting 200+ file formats: 001, 7Z, ACE (*), ARC, ARJ, BR, BZ2, CAB, DMG, GZ, ISO, LHA, PAQ, PEA, RAR (**), TAR, UDF, WIM, XZ, ZIP, ZIPX, ZST. See her complete list of supported file formats archiving for archiving and exporting.
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 archives (supported formats enrollments) and works as an opener/exporter for 200+ archive types, including ACE files, ISO, RAR, ZIPX, including the ability to manage encrypted files.
It has a wide range of data security features: strong encryption (BEA, Twofish, Serpent), encrypted password manager, optional check ID cardtwo-factor (password and key file encryption/decryption), secure deletion and file shredding tools.
For more information on file creation and export performance compared to other popular file archiving tools, see the benchmarks.