One of the strongest points of iZip Unarchiver for Mac is its reliability. The program also works with other not so popular formats like CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR, and Z.

Supported formats include RAR, TAR, WIM, ARJ, CAB, CHM 7z, ZIP, XZ, NTFS, BZIP2, GZIP. It helps to extract all common archive file formats easily and fast. This list is where you choose which formats you want the Unarchiver to handle. This comprises of 58 different file formats. Anytime you launch the iZip Unarchiver, its preferences window automatically opens to the Archive Formats tab where the software’s extensive format support are located. It can also handle file names in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems. It is designed to handle many more formats than Archive Utility better. Thats how buggy and how bad iZip utilizes the power of your Mac.IZip Unarchiver for Mac is a much more capable replacement for Archive Utility app which is the built-in archive application in OS X. What freezes iZip, or would take an entire day to uncompress, took only 5 minutes on my Mac with Unarchiver.

Can’t believe how much better Unarchiver is.

Been using iZip for almost a year without questioning all the problems. Literally just downloaded Unarchiver off the Mac app store to give it a try. It will literally take 1+ hours to uncompress a small 7zip file that would take other programs 10-30 seconds….and i’m running a i7 quad core Mac with a 750GB Samsung SSD and 16gb of RAM! I produce entire songs on my Mac and iZip struggle to uncompress a 20mb 7zip file?! Use this program if you want to….but there are much better free programs out there for this. iZip is HORRIBLE at uncompressing 7zip files. This app works fine for small files but for big files and certain compression formats it will freeze up or just crash after uncompressing just afew small files. Horribly Buggy depending on size and file type.

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