Akizip – graphical archive manager for GNOME

Akizip is a graphical archive manager built for GNOME with GTK 4 and libadwaita.

It uses the 7-Zip command-line engine bundled with its Flatpak package while presenting archive operations through an adaptive desktop interface. Users can create 7z, ZIP, and TAR archives, inspect their contents and metadata, and extract a wider range of formats supported by 7-Zip. RAR and several compressed stream formats are handled in read-only mode.

Operations run through a background job queue, allowing lengthy tasks to report progress without freezing the interface. Compression settings cover the output format, compression level and algorithm, dictionary size, thread count, passwords, and filename encryption for 7z archives.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Provides a native GTK 4 and libadwaita interface.
• Creates archives in 7z, ZIP, and TAR formats.
• Opens RAR, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ, ISO, and compressed TAR archives.
• Browses files and folders inside an archive without extracting them.
• Displays archive metadata and tests archives for errors.
• Extracts complete archives or individual selected items.
• Adds files and folders to existing archives.
• Supports dragging files into the application.
• Creates, renames, moves, and removes items within archives.
• Protects archives with passwords and can encrypt 7z filenames.
• Configures compression level, method, dictionary size, and thread count.
• Runs archive operations as cancellable background jobs with progress reporting.
• Shows estimated remaining time and supports configurable job timeouts.
• Provides a separate logs window for command output and diagnostics.
• Integrates with the desktop’s Open With mechanism.
• Ships as a sandboxed Flatpak with a bundled 7zz executable.
• Offers a multilingual interface with translations managed through Weblate.

Website: github.com/AkiZip/AkiZip
Support:
Developer: ckappgit
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Akizip is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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