3 Free and Open-source Compressed file Apps for macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)

1- Keka: The archiver

Compress and uncompress folders and files for macOS

Keka is a free compression and decompression lightweight solution. It's easy to use and supports many versions of macOS.

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2- The Unarchiver

Open any archive in seconds

The Unarchiver is a free file compression manager supports many archived files especially RAR, ZIP, ACE and TAR. It's totally free and supporting many macOS versions starting from macOS 10.7. It also supports rare archived formats including old formats as well.

The Unarchiver is the only app you need to open RAR on Mac. It’s times more powerful than the native macOS utility and supports infinitely more archive formats.

The app spports all popular file formats, rate formats, as well as old formats.

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3- P7ZIP

Open-source file compression for macOS, Unix, and *nix systems

p7zip is a port of 7za.exe for POSIX systems like Unix (Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Cygwin, AIX, ...), MacOS X and also for BeOS and Amiga.

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