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

1- macOS zip service

compress files or folders as a clean zip with simple services on macOS Finder

Do your own easy way to compress files or folders as a clean zip with simple services on macOS Finder.

Compress files and folders with the full parent path and without .DS_Store as a clean zip.

Read about macOS zip service 's features, license, platforms, and more.

2- PeaZip Free Archiver

Free Zip / Unzip software and Rar file extractor

PeaZip is a free file archiver utility and rar extractor for Linux, macOS, and Windows, which works with 200+ archive types and variants (7z, ace, arc, bz2, cab, gz, iso, paq, pea, rar, tar, wim, zip, zipx...), handles spanned archives (001, r01, z01...), supports multiple archive encryption standards, file hashing, exports tasks as console scripts.

The project aims to provide a cross-platform, portable, GUI frontend for multiple Open Source technologies (7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, UPX, Brotli, Zstd) focused on file and archive management, and security (strong encryption, two factor authentication, encrypted password manager, secure delete).

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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.

Read about P7ZIP 's features, license, platforms, and more.