Native archive browser for macOS

Browse archives before you extract.

Browse archive trees, preview files, edit files inside regular ZIP archives, then save changes to the same archive or a new ZIP.

QuikZip browsing a ZIP archive with a file tree, archive outline, text preview, and metadata

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Browse and preview

Treat an archive like a folder.

Move through hierarchical or flat views, search archive contents, and inspect images, text, binary data, and metadata in the right-hand Preview panel. Press Space for native macOS Quick Look or open a file with its default app without extracting the entire archive.

Finder-like explorer and archive outline
Inline previews in the right-hand Preview panel
Native macOS Quick Look with Space, just like in Finder
Open individual files with their default Mac apps
Search, filters, breadcrumbs, and metadata
Multiple open archive tabs

QuikZip previewing an image stored inside a ZIP archive

Create archives

Create ZIP, 7z, and more.

Choose a format and the options it supports. ZIP offers Store, Deflate, LZMA, and Zstandard. 7z offers Store, LZMA1, and LZMA2, with solid archives, optional AES-256 encryption, and encrypted filenames.

ZIP, 7z, TAR and CPIO families, and other supported creation formats
AES-256 for ZIP and 7z; encryption options depend on format
Numbered 7z sets and separate archives per top-level item
Presets for .DS_Store, AppleDouble, Git, and node_modules

QuikZip archive creation settings with compression and exclude presets

Edit archive contents

Change a ZIP without extracting and rebuilding it by hand.

Regular unencrypted ZIP files support entry edits. Existing encrypted ZIPs and 7z archives have different capabilities; creating an encrypted archive does not imply it can be edited in place.

Edit a file

Open an entry with its default Mac app, make a change, and save the updated file back into a regular ZIP.

Manage entries

Add files, rename entries, delete entries, and edit archive or entry comments in regular ZIP files.

Work with split ZIP sets

Open a complete split set, preview and extract its contents, edit file contents in QuikZip's materialized ZIP, and export a regular ZIP.

Extract precisely

Take out one file, one folder, or everything.

Extract selected entries, extract all, use the current folder, or return to the last destination. Conflict handling keeps existing files explicit instead of silently overwriting them.

Selected and full extraction
Extract Here and last-destination workflows
Merge, keep-both, and conflict policies
Finder reveal and metadata handling

QuikZip extraction settings with conflict and destination controls

Format capabilities

75+ recognized formats. Capabilities per operation.

QuikZip recognizes archives, compressed streams, packages, disk images, executable containers, and document containers. The capability view shows whether each format can browse, preview, extract, create, edit, test integrity, or inspect metadata, because not every format supports the same operations.

ZIP and split ZIP, 7z, RAR, TAR, CPIO, NAR, CAB, AR, XAR, LHA/LZH, ARJ, ZOO, ARC, PAK, and WARC
Gzip, Bzip2, XZ, LZMA, LZO, LZ4, LZFSE, Zlib, Unix Compress, Zstandard, Brotli, Lzip, and compressed TAR and CPIO routes
Apple Archive and AEA, DMG, ISO, WIM/ESD/SWM, SquashFS, CramFS, ROMFS, QCOW, UDF, and virtual disk images
DEB, RPM, MSI, macOS packages, StuffIt, ACE, ALZip, PEA, executable containers, and ZIP-based document and app formats

QuikZip format settings with browsing, creation, and extraction capabilities

Finder integration

Archive actions where your files already are.

Use macOS Services to open an archive, extract to a chosen destination, or compress selected Finder items to ZIP.

OpenExtract ToCompress to ZIP

QuikZip Finder Services settings showing available archive commands

Keyboard first

Set shortcuts for the commands you use most.

Edit bindings for the command palette, opening, creating, extracting, Quick Look, search, and pane control. Conflicts are detected while you edit.

QuikZip shortcut editor with customizable archive commands

Privacy and safety

Check an archive before you trust or extract it.

Test archive integrity, validate CRC data, verify SHA checksum files and code signatures, and get useful diagnostics for damaged or incomplete archives. Extraction planning blocks unsafe output paths and avoids silent overwrites.

Path traversal and unsafe-link protection
Passwords kept for the session or saved in Keychain
Archive tests, SHA checksum verification, and code-signature checks
Preview and extraction cache cleanup

QuikZip privacy and archive safety settings

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Browse, preview, extract, and edit.

Start with the four core workflows in the native QuikZip workspace.

Browse

Tree and flat views with search, filters, metadata, recent archives, multiple windows, and nested navigation.

Try archive browsing

Preview

Preview images, bounded text, and binary metadata, with Quick Look and clear blocked states.

Try preview tools

Extract

Extract selected items or everything with destinations, conflict handling, progress, cancellation, and Finder reveal.

Try extraction planning

Create and edit

Create ZIP and 7z archives with optional AES-256. Add, rename, delete, or update entries and comments in regular unencrypted ZIPs.

Try the ZIP text editor

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Verify, automate, and work natively.

Continue with integrity tools, split archives, commands, and macOS integration.

Passwords and integrity

Open protected archives, store credentials in Keychain, test integrity, and verify checksums and code signatures.

Try archive verification

Split archives

Browse and extract split ZIP sets, update files in a materialized ZIP, then export a regular ZIP.

Try nested navigation

Archive commands

Run archive, edit, integrity, and metadata tools from the searchable command palette.

Try the command palette

Native macOS

Use Finder Services, drag and drop, Quick Look, shortcuts, native menus, themes, and multiple windows.

Explore all settings

Support and requirements

Check the format, codec, and operation.

QuikZip requires macOS 14 or later. Settings → Formats describes available operations and limitations for each recognized format.

7z and multipart archives

Read supported Store, Deflate, BZip2, LZMA1, LZMA2, solid, and AES layouts. Complete numbered sets need every part and access to their folder. Unsupported coder graphs remain explicit.

Containers and disk images

Recognizing a container can mean metadata inspection only. Mounted DMG workflows use Apple system tools and depend on filesystem and sandbox access.

Browser demo

Sample archives and creation, encryption, verification, and extraction actions are simulated in browser memory. No archive is compressed or encrypted by the demo.

Explore format settings

Get help

Include the app version, format, operation, and error message when reporting an issue. Use a generated sample that reproduces it.

Contact support

Performance and benchmarks

Measure the operation you need.

Archive format, codec, entry count, encryption, and storage all affect performance. The web demo does not measure the native archive engines.

Opening and preview

Native benchmarks measure first rows, complete indexing, preview latency, cancellation, and memory separately. Seeing the first rows does not mean the full archive is indexed.

Creation and extraction

Codec and container workloads measure duration, throughput, output size, and correctness using generated fixtures.

Published results

No cross-app speed ranking is published here. Comparable results need an identified build, Mac, macOS version, fixture, operation, and repeated measurements.

Browse first

Extract only what you need.

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