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CLUSTER ARCHIVES-ARCHIVER-COMPRESSED · 6 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-01

macOS archive managers with Chinese encoding

This cluster consists of native macOS file archivers that extract and sometimes create compressed archives, with features like Chinese filename decoding (GBK), encrypted and split archive support, and preview/selective extraction. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as there are no dated entries before the index start, so the cluster predates the index or its members are undated. Among the members with activity signals, Arcora leads with 2 stars, followed by qingya-mac-archiver with 1 star and MacExt4 with 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 4OCT 2026: 1
AUG 2026OCT 2026

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 · 1 hand-coded · 5 unlabelled

Operator · 4 hobby · 1 indie · 1 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 6 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01open-silicon-zip1★7 days—hobbyNative macOS archiver for Apple silicon that compresses and extracts files with parallel multicore performance and Finder integration.
  2. 02qingya-mac-archiver1★23 days—hobbyNative macOS archiver that extracts compressed files, auto-decodes Chinese filenames, supports encrypted and split archives, and offers preview and selective extraction.
  3. 03Arcora3★1 mo—hobbyLocal-first macOS archive utility for creating, browsing, extracting, and verifying archive files with no account or telemetry.
  4. 04peazip-macos0★5 days—hobbyNative macOS file archiver that lets users create, browse, edit, and extract compressed archives.
  5. 05MacExt41★28 days—open sourcemacOS utility that reads and extracts files from Linux ext2/ext3/ext4 drives without kernel extensions.
  6. 06NekoZip0★1 molivehand-codedindiemacOS archiver that extracts many compressed formats, fixes GBK filename encoding, detects disguised archives, and supports encryption and split archives.

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.