Rating and comments for 7-Zip

A very good file compression and extraction program, with more formats than the average user will ever need, and most of the ones even an advanced user would want.

The 4, is because it is somewhat counter intuitive, to the point of being distracting, but otherwise, very good!

i love it, works great, and 7zip is one of best compression rates

I'm a pretty competent computer user but hardly a coder or anything. For me, 7-Zip is all the compression program I'll ever need. No complaints at all. I do my own archiving in the native format (which is pretty impressive) but it can seemingly handle any other format I throw at it.

Hits the spot with ease.

Consistently better compression than the commercial app WinRAR (which I purchased a license for and use often). It is not uncommon for me to achieve 60% to 80% compression ratios with 7-zip.

Note that the RAR unpacking part is not open source (it's under a proprietary unrar license that is not certified by OSI ). Who could remove the rar tag from the application?

Probably the lightest and best software, handles zip and rar files with ease. !

I love this

NOTHING IN FRONT OF WINRAR

There is no archiver thats better.

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7-Zip can even decompress files inside .MSI files, .gadget files for Windows Sidebar and even some .EXE files, it also opens linux archives .DEB, .TAR ,BZ2 and it handles those most splitted files.
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* Best compression rate
* Compatible with many other popular formats
* Easy to use