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24 alternatives to pzip- blazing fast concurrent zip archiver and extractor

A blazing fast concurrent zip archiver and extractor. - ybirader/pzip

pzip is a concurrent zip archiver and extractor designed for speed. It allows users to create and extract zip files with parallel processing capabilities. The tool is built for anyone needing to work with compressed… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. pzip- blazing fast concurrent zip archiver and extractor launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hello HN, I'm very excited to have finished a gzip decoder that can speed up decompression using threads. On my Ryzen 3900X, I measured a 8x speedup over standard gzip, reaching 1.6 GB/s for a synthetic file with a consistent compression ratio of 1.3. A functional decompressor like this is kind of a first, that's why I am excited. Pragzip implements the two-staged decompression idea put forward with pugz, which unfortunately only works with gzipped text files not arbitrary files and has many more limitations. I think my main contribution over pugz might be a fast (~10 MB/s)…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I have posted a much earlier version of this over a year ago [0]. Since then a lot has changed. Obviously, the name has changed. This happened for the paper publication [1]. I have also optimized the speed, integrated ISA-L for special cases, limited the compression-ratio-dependent maximum memory consumption, and finally added parallelized CRC32 computation, which adds ~5% overhead no matter the number of cores used. At this point, I am leaning towards calling it production-ready although there are still many ideas for improvements. Redoing the benchmarks of the older Show HN, would look…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Crawls a Multi-Page Application to a zip file, serve the Multi-Page Application from the zip file. A MPA archiver. Could be used as a Site Generator. Written for https://pota.quack.uy/ - potahtml/mpa-archive

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Python function to stream unzip all the files in a ZIP archive on the fly - uktrade/stream-unzip

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Robust ZIP decoder with defenses against dangerous compression ratios, spec deviations, malicious archive signatures, mismatching local and central directory headers, ambiguous UTF-8 filenames, directory and symlink traversals, invalid MS-DOS dates, overlapping headers, overflow, underflow, sparsene

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Free zip software to zip and unzip files

    2025 · zipking.wmaster.com · its alternatives →

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    Zipy▲339

    Debug instantly with session playback and monitoring in one

    2022 · zipy.ai · its alternatives →

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    Zipped▲89

    Your swiss army knife for ZIP files on iOS

    2017 · eytan.co · its alternatives →

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    Online archive tool - secure and fast

    2023 · zipzip.pro · its alternatives →

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    Embeddable minimal in-memory GZIP decompression library for embedded systems - wkoszek/mini_gzip

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    easyZIP▲64

    Preview your Zip archives

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Zipro▲64

    A full-featured zip/archive file tool

    2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Zipit▲100

    Unzip files in S3 faster

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    ⚡ The fastest directory crawler & globbing library for NodeJS. Crawls 1m files in < 1s - thecodrr/fdir

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ExZip▲2

    Free extract zip files & file compression tool

    2025 · extractzipfiles.com · its alternatives →

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    unblob is an accurate, fast, and easy-to-use extraction suite. unblob parses unknown binary blobs for more than 30 different archive, compression, and file-system formats, extracts their content recursively, and carves out unknown chunks that have not been accounted for. This turns unblob into the p

    2022 · unblob.org · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m an independent iOS developer and wanted to share SmartZip Pro, a file compression and extraction app I built for iPhone and iPad. The goal was simple: make archive handling on iOS feel native, fast, and professional—without ads, clutter, or unnecessary friction. What it does: Extracts ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ, ISO, and more Creates ZIP archives, including AES-256 encrypted ZIPs Lets you preview files directly inside archives (images, video, audio, documents) without extracting first Works seamlessly with Apple’s Files app Supports common file operations: rename, move,…

    Dec 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    A native macOS app for the 7-Zip archiving utility. - AkshayKalose/789-Zip

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Pixel compressor & encryptor

    Dec 2025 · unzipziper.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    A general-purpose file explorer for (rooted) Android, with support for compressed archives, remote file servers, device-to-device file transfers, checksums, etc... - pgp/XFiles

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    eZip▲4

    A full featured, easy-to-use Archive app for Mac

    2019 · ezip.awehunt.com · its alternatives →

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    ezyZip▲14

    Online file compression and conversion tools. for free!

    2025 · ezyzip.com · its alternatives →

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    This is a low-level opensource library I developed for my own use and decided to share, as it makes it possible to process large checkpoints of neural networks without renting high-RAM instances, on a regular PC. It replaces torch.load() with a custom function that produces a dictionary that materializes tensors on the fly. Compared to other solutions it doesn't require sharding or re-encoding checkpoints and uses them completely as-is. It is a foundation to make it possible to run inference and compress language models and other large models one layer at a time - in principle, even one…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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