It handles the most popular compression formats, including Zip, ZipX, 7z, and RAR files for free!.

Bandizip has very fast Zip algorithm for compression & extraction by Fast Drag and Drop, High Speed Archiving, and Multi-core compression function.

Features

  • Packing and Unpacking: Zip(z01), ZipX(zx01), TAR, TGZ, 7Z(7z.001), and EXE(e01)
  • Unpacking Only: RAR(part1.rar, r01), ACE, ALZ, APK, ARJ, BH, BZ, BZ2, CAB, EGG, GZ, J2J, JAR, IMG, IPA, ISO, LHA, LZH, LZMA, PMA, TBZ, TBZ2, TGZ, TLZ, TXZ, UDF, WAR, WIM, XZ, and Z
  • Support unicode to display international characters which display for filenames in archives
  • Bypass the bad compression files automatically by "High Speed Archiving" function
  • Extract the files to the destination folder directly by "Fast Drag & Drop" function
  • Create self-extracting file (.EXE) and multi-volume (split) archives
  • Optional archive encryption using ZipCrypto
  • Context Menu access including "Preview Archive" function
  • Create or extract multiple zip files simultaneously from windows explorer
  • Free to use at both home and in the office

What's New

  • Fixed a security vulnerability that could occur during the parallel decompression of ZIP format files (KVE-2026-0742, Thanks to p4p3r)
  • Fixed a security vulnerability where MoTW (Mark-of-the-Web) information could be removed due to issues with filename normalization (KVE-2026-0743, Thanks to p4p3r)
  • Fixed a memory leak bug that could occur in the PEA format
  • Fixed a security vulnerability that could occur when processing the RAR5 format
  • Fixed a security vulnerability that could occur when processing the EGG format
  • Fixed a security vulnerability that could occur when processing extended fields in the ZIP format
  • Fixed a security vulnerability that could occur when processing the CAB format
  • Other modifications