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CLUSTER EXTRACTS-CREATES-DESKTOP · 3 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-02-07

Cross-platform file archiver tools

This cluster comprises desktop applications for creating, extracting, and encrypting compressed archives in formats like ZIP, TAR, and 7z, with some supporting hundreds of formats and malware scanning. The dated history before the index start is too thin to discern a trend, containing only a single dated entry. Traction among members is led by arca and ArcBox-free-zip-archiver, each with 1 star, while PeaZip has 0.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

FEB 2026: 1SEP 2026: 1OCT 2026: 1
FEB 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 · 3 unlabelled

Operator · 1 open source · 2 unlabelled

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.

  1. 01arca1★16 daysliveCross-platform desktop archiver that creates and extracts ZIP, TAR, and 7z archives with encryption and parallel compression.
  2. 02ArcBox-free-zip-archiver1★1 mo—Desktop file archiver for Windows that creates and extracts ZIP, 7z, and TAR archives, extracts many other formats, and scans for malware.
  3. 03PeaZip0★3 moliveopen sourceCross-platform desktop archive manager that creates, extracts, and encrypts files across more than 200 compression formats, including a built-in file browser.

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.