Archive Manager

PeaZip – winrar/winzip alternative

PeaZip is a cross-platform portable file archiver, released under the LGPL.

PeaZip supports many different archive and compression formats including: 7z, 7z-sfx, ARC/WRC, BZ2, GZ, LPAQ, PAQ, PEA, QUAD, split, TAR, UPX, ZIP; Read: 7Z, ARC/WRC, ACE, ARJ, BZ2/TBZ2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZ/TGZ, ISO, JAR/EAR/WAR, LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAK/PK3/PK4, PAQ, PEA, PET/PUP, QUAD, RAR, RPM, SLP, split, TAR, U3P, WIM, XPI, Z/TZ, and ZIP/SMZIP.

This application is developed in FreePascal using the Lazarus development environment.

PeaZip can be easily integrated with GNOME and KDE.

Key Features

  • Volume spanning.
  • Compression.
  • Authenticiated encrpytion:
    • 7Z, with AES256 encryption.
    • ARC, with AES256, Blowfish, Twofish256 and Serpent256 encryption.
    • PEA, with AES256 authenticated encryption (EAX mode).
    • ZIP with WinZip’s AE encryption based on AES256.
    • ARC format protects archives against corruption employing recovery records.
  • Edit, save and restore archive layouts.
  • Apply multiple filters to archive contents.
  • Handle multiple archives simultaneously.
  • Split/join files.
  • Wipe files (secure deletion.
  • Compare, checksum and has files.
  • System benchmark.
  • Generate random passwords and key files.

Website: peazip.github.io
Support: Documentation
Developer: Giorgio Tani
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

PeaZip in action
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PeaZip is written in Free Pascal. Learn Pascal with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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