Top 15 GUI Tar Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

During the command-line era of computing, archiving files involved cryptic commands such as tar -xvf somefile.tar. However, since those days, the masses have come to use computers, and they expect an easy to use system with graphical elements and interaction. The days of the command-line interface are distant, and expecting the common user to resort to those older methods is normally out of the question. This is where GUI Tar steps in.

GUI Tar is a wrapper application which acts as the front end to the 7za, tar, gzip, bzip2, uncompress, unrar, unzip, and zip UNIX utilities. The operating system itself handles the complicated work, while GUI Tar provides a pleasant and easy method to interact with these system tools. GUI Tar is divided into two sections: Extractor and Compressor.

1. Entropy

Entropy Easily create, open and preview popular archive files like ZIP, RAR, 7z, TGZ and more ( 30+ formats supported ).An unparalleled feature set makes Entropy the ultimate archiving app:• EXTRACT all major archive formats• CREATE highly compressed archives with easy• PROTECT your data using industrial strength encryption• PREVIEW files inside......

2. 8 Zip

8 Zip Out with the old, in with the new. The powerful archiver 8 Zip has expanded its set of capabilities with the new Continuum and Windows Hello technologies. Now one app, one license, a uniform design and functionality can be had on all types of devices. Decrypt files through an iris......

3. UPX

UPX UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables) achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks for most of the formats supported, because of in-place decompression.......

4. PeaZip

PeaZip PeaZip is a free and open-source file manager and file archiver for Windows, Linux and BSD made by Giorgio Tani. It supports its native PEA archive format (featuring compression, multi volume split and flexible authenticated encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with special focus on handling open......

5. CabPack

CabPack A freeware compression program with which you can create cabinet (.CAB) files. With just a few mouse clicks you specify which files to compress, which compression method to use, where the output files should go and whether or not the cabinet files should span multiple disks. CabPack is able to......

6. Free UPX

Free UPX Graphical interface for the UPX packer, UPX 3.91w, Ultimate Packer for eXecutables, EXE packer.Free UPX is an advanced graphical interface for the UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables). It allows you to compress (and decompress) files produced according to Microsoft Portable Executable and COFF Specification (EXE, DLL, OCX, BPL, CPL and......

7. FileVoyager

FileVoyager FileVoyager is a freeware Orthodox file manager (OFM) for Microsoft Windows. OFM’s are file managers using two panels of disks browsers.This dual pane layout makes very easy the transfer operations of files or folders between sources and destinations.FileVoyager contains a large collection of tools and functionality. Here are some of......

8. ArcThemAll!

ArcThemAll! A simple software to multiple compress files and folders. ArcThemAll provides compression and extraction of batches of multiple folders or files with simple drag&drop loading. It includes an intelligent UPX compression mode, the support to self-extracting archives creation, archives encryption and decryption and much more. It allows configuration of the......

9. KuaiZip

KuaiZip KuaiZip is a free, convenient, fast compressor and decompressor, with advanced compression technology and a proprietary of compression format(KZ). KZ is a high ratio and fast format. KuaiZip support more than 40 compression formats such as RAR,ZIP,7Z etc. KuaiZip also can mount compressed archives, CD/DVD images and virtual disk files.......

10. Total manager

Total manager Total Manager = FTP Client + Archiver / Unarchiver + Photo Viewer + Videos / Audios Player + Files Batch Renamer + File Info CheckerTotal Manager is a powerful file manager with a classic double-window and multi-tab interface. It was not only a professional archiving app that can easily compress,......

11. Archiv

Archiv With Archiv your can create archives in different popular formats and extract them easily. Because of using native disk utilities of Mac, Archiv is very reliable and secure! Password protection make your archives also safe. Convenient Drag & Drop support! CREATING- 7z, Zip, Tar, Bzip2, Gzip- Dmg, Iso, UdfEXTRACTING- 7z,......

12. ezyZip

ezyZip ezyZip is a file compression tool that lets you zip files into an archive. It also supports unzip, allowing you to uncompress archived zip files.Unlike traditional online zip/unzip tools, ezyZip does not require you to upload or download files to a server. The app runs locally in the browser, thus......

13. RarMachine

RarMachine RarMachine is a powerful RAR archive manager, surely the simplest and most integrated for Mac OS X.You can use it to compress and extract all Rar files downloaded from the internet or compressed on a PC with the power advantage of your Mac System.......

14. AutoWinRarZip

AutoWinRarZip AutoWinRarZip - is an easy to use program that allows you to extract (unRar, unZip) archived files different formats. All you have to do: - chose the folder where archived files will be downloaded- chose the destination folder where decompressed/unarchived files will beAutoWinRarZip stays in you system tray, each time......

15. Free ARC NEXT

Free ARC NEXT https://github.com/Bulat-Ziganshin/FA/blob/master/FreeArc-archive-format.md https://encode.ru/threads/2621-FreeArc-Next?highlight=arc https://encode.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=4699&d=1475957410 An archive consists of blocks. This includes so-called SOLID BLOCKS, containing contents of files stored in the archive, and all remaining block type, collectively called CONTROL BLOCKS, holding meta-information about archive and files it contain.Currently, there are the following types of control blocks:......