7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. Choose a download format. Download links redirect to a download page on SourceForge.net. 7zX for Mac, free and safe download. 7zX latest version: 7zip archives and more in a click. Most people on the Mac use Stuffit Expander to compress and decompress. Winzip is the world's leading zip utility for file compression, encryption, sharing, and backup. Save time and space on your Mac with Winzip.

The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR (including v5), 7-zip, Tar, Gzip and Bzip2. It will also open many older formats, such as StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ and ARC.

It will even open other kinds of files, like ISO and BIN disc images, some Windows.EXE installers. The list is actually much longer - see the program homepage for the full list. The Unarchiver also tries to detect and correctly handle the filename encoding in the archives it opens, allowing you to open files from every part of the world without getting garbled filenames. The Unarchiver aims to be the only unarchiving program you will ever need, and to stay out of your way. However, if you want to browse the contents of archives, or if you want to support development of The Unarchiver, look for 'The Archive Browser' on the Mac App Store, or go to It lets you browse and preview archive contents, and find out information about archives!

Also, if you need to open archives on your iPad or iPhone, look for 'Archives' on the App Store, or go to It is based on The Unarchiver, and lets you easily handle Archives on iOS! * WARNING: There is a known bug where.tar.gz files do not extract correctly in 3.9. Please wait for Apple to approve 3.9.1 before upgrading if this is a problem for you. * The Archive Browser for Mac OS X and Archives for iOS have also been updated! Look for them in the App Stores!

* Add Dutch translation. * Add support for PMA files. * Better support for broken Zip files.

* Fixed bugs in handling of NSIS and MSI files. * Fixed a bug where minimizing the window could make it remain open after extracting. * Tiny interface tweaks. • 3.8 Jul 9, 2013. * The Archive Browser and Archives for iOS have also been updated!

* If you are having problems with The Unarchiver only showing its preferences window and not unpacking files, update Typinator, Default Folder X or SwitchResX, as these programs are the cause of this problem. * Added support for the Internet Archive WARC format.

* Fixed the 'Never create folder' option, which had accidentally been disabled. * Fixed a bug in Polish translation that made Polish version crash sometimes. * Fixed a bug that caused file formats to not be unselectable in the file type list. * Fixed bugs in XAR/.pkg, CAB, HQX and Compress. * Fixed a few more rare bugs and crashes. • 3.5.1 Nov 29, 2012. * 3.5.1: Fixed a bug that made the app fail to launch on 10.6 and 10.7.

Terribly sorry that this took so long to get fixed, but Apple took over a week and a half to approve this bugfix. * 3.5.1: Fixed another sandbox bug that caused archives on remote volumes to fail to open. * Added support for password-protected 7z files. * Added an experimental AppleScript interface. Question Mark Picture. * Added a progress bar overlay on the dock icon.