The US$19.99 BetterZip brings a full archive manager to your Mac. You can also secure your ZIP, 7-Zip and RAR files with passwords, with WinZip compatible AES-256 encrypted archives at your fingertips. BetterZip can also compress files into six archive types natively (ZIP, TAR, GZip or BZip2 compressed TAR, XAR and 7-Zip), as well as RAR archives courtesy of an external RAR command-line utility. You can also update archives, adding files into an already compressed archive without having to extract the whole lot first and then re-compressing them together.īetterZip is able to open and extract most common formats, from ZIP to TAR, RAR to JAR, it's got you covered (for a full list see the MAS listing). Often you've got loads of files compressed together, but you only want one - BetterZip allows you to extract single files from archives without having to extract the whole lot, which can save you time and disk space if it's a really large archive. But what about actually compressing and managing archives? That's where BetterZip 2 steps in.īetterZip 2 allows you to open archives without first extracting them, allowing you to see precisely what's inside them before processing them. For extracting stuff other than Zip files, the Unarchiver's your friend. Mac OS X has had a zip utility built into it for some time.
