
Up to date sources are available in peazip-sources Git directory, and snapshots of the source code at each x.y.z release are available in Releases as peazip-x.y.z.src.zip packages, with (featured both in Git and in source packages) containing detailed instructions for compiling the application and building packages for different systems. For a good tool to open RAR files and create your own, PeaZip is an excellent option.

If you have WinRAR installed (be it the full version or the trial) PeaZip can make use of the. The program is written in Lazarus/FreePascal (Windows installable packages are scripted with InnoSetup, with Pascal-like syntax) and offers a LGPLv3 alternative to proprietary software (WinZip, WinRar, etc), running as native application on Windows/Win64, Wine/ReactOS, Linux x86/x86-64 (with Linux ARM and BSD ports also available), and Darwin/macOS both Intel x86_64 and aarch64 (e.g. The PeaZip interface is also easy to use. PeaZip is one compression tool that can, sort of, create as well as extract RAR files. The project aims to provide a cross-platform, portable, GUI frontend for multiple Open Source technologies (7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, UPX, Brotli, Zstd) focused on file and archive management, and security (strong encryption, two factor authentication, encrypted password manager, secure delete).


Open, extract 7Z ACE CAB RAR TAR ZIP archives. PeaZip is a free file archiver utility and rar extractor for Linux, macOS, and Windows, which works with 200+ archive types and variants (7z, ace, arc, bz2, cab, gz, iso, paq, pea, rar, tar, wim, zip, zipx.), handles spanned archives (001, r01, z01.), supports multiple archive encryption standards, file hashing, exports tasks as console scripts. Free file archiver utility for Windows and Linux, Open Source file compression and encryption software.
