7-Zip
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
Download 7-Zip 19.00 (2019-02-21) for Windows:
Link |
Type |
Windows |
Size |
Download |
.exe |
32-bit x86 |
1 MB |
Download |
.exe |
64-bit x64 |
1 MB |
Download 7-Zip 19.02 alpha (2019-09-05) for Windows:
Link |
Type |
Windows |
Size |
Download |
.exe |
32-bit x86 |
1 MB |
Download |
.exe |
64-bit x64 |
1 MB |
License
7-Zip is free software with open source.
The most of the code is under the GNU LGPL license.
Some parts of the code are under the BSD 3-clause License.
Also there is unRAR license restriction for some parts of the code.
Read 7-Zip License information.
You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization.
You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.
The main features of 7-Zip
- High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
- Supported formats:
- Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
- Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS,
IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR,
RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.
- For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that
is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
- Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
- Self-extracting capability for 7z format
- Integration with Windows Shell
- Powerful File Manager
- Powerful command line version
- Plugin for FAR Manager
- Localizations for 87 languages
7-Zip works in Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2016 / 2012 / 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT.
p7zip - the port of the command line version of 7-Zip to Linux/Posix.
On 7-Zip's SourceForge Page
you can find a forum, bug reports, and feature request systems.
Compression ratio
We compared 7-Zip with WinRAR 5.20.
FILE SETS: Mozilla Firefox 34.0.5 for Windows and Google Earth 6.2.2.6613 for Windows.
Archiver |
Mozilla Firefox |
Google Earth |
65 files 85 280 391 bytes |
483 files 110 700 519 bytes |
Compressed size |
Ratio |
Compressed size |
Ratio |
7-Zip 9.35 -mx |
39 357 375 |
100% |
15 964 369 |
100% |
WinRAR 5.20 -m5 -s -ma5 -md128m |
41 789 543 |
106% |
17 035 432 |
107% |
Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests.
Usually, 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format.
And 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs.
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