7-Zip is a powerful tool for managing and compressing files.
7-Zip is a free application distributed under the GNU-GPL licence. It has very high compression ratios and a clean, pleasant and intuitive graphic interface.
Although the compression indices vary depending on the type of data being compressed, 7-Zip achieves improvements between 30 and 70% with respect to the usual .zip compression format.
One of the reasons for the growing popularity of 7-Zip is the compression index that it reaches with zip and gzip files. Its performance is between 2% and 10% better than the other compression applications available today.
- High compression indices;
- Free software under GNU-GPL licence;
- Automatic extraction support for 7z format;
- Works perfectly with Windows file browser;
- Drag and drop support;
- Built-in file manager;
- Online command support;
- FAR Manager extension.
