CLUSTER ARCHIVE-COMPRESSED-DESKTOP · 23 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2021-12-25
File archiving and compression tools
This cluster spans desktop, web, and browser-based utilities for creating, extracting, browsing, and compressing archive files across many formats, including specialized tools like CHM readers and progressive space reclaimers. Dated entries appear sparsely from 2007 through 2026, with three dated entries in early 2026 (Feb, Apr, Jun) forming a small recent cluster. On traction, Nova-Prism and ReclaimArc each lead with 7 stars, while Akizip has 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 1 unlabelled
Operator · 1 commercial · 2 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 3 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21marianne0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceA terminal-based parallel downloader that automatically extracts downloaded archives for users.
- 22afio0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceArchiver and backup program that compresses files for storage and later recovery.
- 23WinRAR (WINE)0★unknownlivehand-codedcommercialDesktop utility that creates, opens, and extracts RAR and ZIP archives, compressing files and reducing the size of email attachments.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.