Best Archive Utility Windows
Best Archive Utility System

PeaZip is free file archiver utility, based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, Brotli, FreeArc, PAQ, Zstandard, and PEA projects.

Cross-platform, full-featured but user-friendly alternative to WinRar, WinZip and similar general purpose archive manager applications, open and extract 200+ archive formats: 001, 7Z, ACE(*), ARC, ARJ, BR, BZ2, CAB, DMG, GZ, ISO, LHA, PAQ, PEA, RAR(**), TAR, UDF, WIM, XZ, ZIP, ZIPX, ZST - view full list of supported archive file formats for archiving and for extraction.

Best Archive Utility Windows

Best Archive Utility System

BetterZip can create archives with these formats: ZIP, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TXZ (new), 7-ZIP, and — using the external commandline utility — RAR. Allows editing an archive without decompressing Direct Mode lets you add files to archives without additional steps like saving. This is especially useful for large archives. It’s an easy to use, lightweight and flexible archiving utility with help of which you can unpack almost every archive format and compress to both RAR and ZIP. Phone Stick for iPhone & iPad.

This software is released under Open Source LGPLv3 license, free for any use (private and professional), all PeaZip packages are secure downloads and do not contain advertising or harmful software.
Moreover portable packages, for Linux and Windows, does not need installation: simply extract and use the application.