4 Free and Open-source File Apps for macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)

1- Archive Mounter

Mounts archives like disk images (macOS)

Archive Mounter is a macOS application allowing to mount archive files as disk images.

It currently supports ZIP and RAR archives.

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2- FileZilla

Open-source free FTP/SFPT/FTPS client for macOS

FileZilla is an open source FTP client, that works for Windows, macOS, & Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, LinuxMint, Fedora,...). It is our top pick in this recommendation list, as we have used it over the years while we are shifting from a platform or a distro to another.

FileZilla is fairly easy to use, as it also comes with powerful features, to meet the demands of experienced and inexperienced users, normal users or advanced users with ninja coding skills.

FileZilla supports FTP, SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol), Stroj (Decentralized Cloud Storage). It also supports connection over proxy and Active/ Passive transfer modes.

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3- Persepolis

Internat Download Manager

Persepolis is a Download Manager & a GUI For aria2. It's written in Python. Persepolis is a Sample of Free and open source software. It's developed For GNU/Linux Distributions, BSDs, macOS and Microsoft Windows. You can join Persepolis contributers & Help us with developing it.

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4- 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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