Side-by-side: WinRAR, PeaZip, 7-Zip, WinZip

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  • 7-Zip-zstd

    7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard

  • The 7-Zip-Zstandard fork. https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd/releases 7-zip is the only acceptable compression software. Open-source (as a result, free), no bloat, no pop-ups, supports LZMA v1 and v2 which are - in my opinion - the best algorithms for a balance of software support, speed, and compression ratio. If you add it to the system path, you can use via command line and pass more custom parameters such as mixing compression methods within one archive and have it split into volumes. It also supports AES256 optional password encryption, and so much more. I use the Zstandard fork because it adds support for various hashing algorithms via the context menu, and some other compression methods that you may sometimes have to be able to open. Such as in one case I had to open a Brotli archive. It still makes no sense why they used that for binary files, but okay.

  • 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.

  • PeaZip also appears to be FOSS too: https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip

  • InfluxDB

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  • par2cmdline

    Official repo for par2cmdline and libpar2

  • 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.

  • unrar

    Unrar source code from rarlab.com

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