NanaZip
The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience (by M2Team)
par2cmdline
Official repo for par2cmdline and libpar2 (by Parchive)
| NanaZip | par2cmdline | |
|---|---|---|
| 76 | 30 | |
| 14,539 | 908 | |
| 2.4% | 1.2% | |
| 9.7 | 8.8 | |
| 6 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
NanaZip
Posts with mentions or reviews of NanaZip.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-07-09.
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7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression
https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip
It includes the above patches as well as few QoL features.
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7-Zip 25.00
There is also NanaZip which aims to be a more modern Windows application and I think also incorporates the additions of the 7zs fork https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip
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Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
1: https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip
- WinRAR musste shady werden.
- WinRAR sold 5,449 licenses in a day
- Am I crazy, or does every linux distro just have all these compression algs included?
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my rarbg magnet backup (268k)
If you have Windows 10 or above, you should instead use NanaZip instead of 7-Zip-zstd. It is a massively improved fork of 7-Zip.
- 28 years later, Windows finally supports RAR files
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of VLC - A Comprehensive Exploration of a Multimedia Powerhouse
The first part of modernizing is port everything to XAML, adding dark mode and others. It's expected to be during this year, new UI in 2024. It's in their roadmap in GitHub
- NanaZip: The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience
par2cmdline
Posts with mentions or reviews of par2cmdline.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-01.
- Par2cmdline v1.0.0 Released
- Parity Archive Volume Set: File Specification, Clients, and Related Resources
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Best archival medium for 3-10 gig video files?
An alternative is including PAR2 files.
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Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf]
Not only that but if you budget for an expected error rate of let's say 10% you can use par2 to create additional files that add that redundancy to your archives.
https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline
- Is this a viable strat to backup while still having some live access to relevant data?
- Par2cmdline is a PAR 2.0 compatible file verification and repair tool
- Tips for Long Term Data storage (20+ years).
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Side-by-side: WinRAR, PeaZip, 7-Zip, WinZip
That's the same reason I do archive files. For parity I personally use (https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline) which does create extra files, so I can see how WinRAR would have something to add there.
- Come aggiungere parità a un gruppo di DVD?
- Adding redundancy records to data
What are some alternatives?
When comparing NanaZip and par2cmdline you can also consider the following projects:
PeaZip - Free Zip / Unzip software and Rar file extractor. Cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption. Supports 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, ACE, ARJ, Brotli, BZ2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD, RAR, RPM, split, TAR, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, Zstandard.
par2deep - Produce, verify and repair par2 files recursively.
7z - Because 7-zip source code was in a 7z archive [mirror]
dwarfs - A fast high-compression read-only file system for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows
7-Zip - 7-Zip source code repository
par2cmdline-turbo - par2cmdline × ParPar: speed focused par2cmdline fork