Archiver

Archiver is a powerful, feature-rich archiving utility for the Mac to open archives, compress files, as well as split and combine files.

 

Why Archiver?

• Smooth, easy-to-use user interface that blends beautifully into your Mac

• Smart drag & drop to save you time

• Conveniently preview archives

• Lighting-fast archive decompression

• Tailor to your needs with flexible power options

Use cases

• Open popular archive formats such as RAR, StuffIt, Zip, 7zip, and many more

• Reduce file and folder

size

with strong compression

• Encrypt and password-protect sensitive data

• Convert exotic archive formats to more common ones for easier file sharing

• Split and combine files

Open archives

• Never worry about file formats again

• Drag in your archives and let Archiver handle the rest for you

• Extract all the common archive formats such as .rar, .7zip, .zip and .sit

• Unpack most of the not-so-common formats too, see the list below

Preview archives

• Conveniently quick look an archive’s file contents

• See what’s inside an archive without having to extract it

• Unpack only the files you need

Create archives

• Reclaim hard disk space by packing files and folders into an archive

• Choose compression level from low (faster) to strong (slower)

• Optionally encrypt archives with a password

Power options for power users

• Choose a default output folder

• Automatically delete archives after extraction

• Skip preview stages for even faster archive opening, creation and conversion

Split and combine files

• Split large files into smaller files of any desired

size

• Works great for files too large to send by email or to fit onto a disk

• Compress the split files for extra space savings

• Optionally generate a checksum to verify file integrity for added security

Supported file formats

• Zip

• 7zip (7z, 7z.001, 7z.002, …)

• Tar

• Tar Gzip (tar.gz, tgz)

• Tar Bzip2 (tar.bz2, tbz)

• Tar Z (tar.Z)

• CPIO (cpio)

• ARJ [read only]

• CAB [read only]

• LhA (lha, lzh) [read only]

• Stuf