MacPacker is a modern archive manager for macOS.
Instead of cluttered windows and outdated UIs, MacPacker gives you a clean, native experience to quickly browse, preview, and extract files from all major archive formats.
Key Features:
- Instant Preview – Open archives without extracting everything.
- Browse Deeply – Navigate inside nested archives like ZIP-in-RAR.
- Selective Extraction – Drag out just the files you need.
- Fast & Native – Built for macOS with Swift, no extra bloat.
- Format Support – ZIP, RAR, 7z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, CPIO, CAB, SIT, and many more.
Whether you’re managing downloads, digging into old backups, or just need a better way to handle compressed files, MacPacker makes it fast and effortless.
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Not perfect, but it’s the best open source implementation currently
Jae_gone
I hope this becomes the 7zip gui of macos
Developer Response
Hi, thanks a lot for the review! Working on that. For the past month, I’ve been working on the integration of 7-zip core so that MacPacker can support (nearly) the same formats. And more as I also include other engines. v0.13 with that integration will hopefully be available in the next days. Then I will start working on support for creation and editing of existing archives.
Improved a lot
hi362846
great modern/native app for archive preview. It has improved a lot compared to early days. quicklook integration is nice too.
Developer Response
Thanks a lot for that review! This is what makes my day :). Right now (literally... coding at the moment) I'm working on v0.13 which will bring some nice improvements in terms of format support (e.g. disk images), passwort support, UI performance improvements. So that finally, by the end of the year I can release v0.14 with first support to create/edit zip files. 🤞
Good tool
Sevikha
Useful functionality. Thanks for your dev time, and good luck with moving this forward!
Developer Response
Thank you very much. v0.6 is on the way soon.
feat: wim support
feat: Open password protected / encrypted archives
feat: New Welcome & About dialogs
feat: Sorting enabled for all columns, sort order persisted and name is default
feat: New option to quit on last window closed
fix: Finder toolbar icon appears too large
fix: Potential Zip-Slip vulnerability in archive extraction
fix: Archives with UTF-8 characters in their file name could not be opened
fix: Quick Look preview not working
fix: Archives opened via Finder integration show empty contents
fix: Up/down keys not working when preview is opened
core: Update 7-Zip to v26.01
core: Export logs for troubleshooting
core: Support for magic numbers at the end of archive files
core: Update acknowledgements
core: Drop macOS 13 support
lang: Language support for Korean
lang: Language support for Mexican Spanish
lang: Updates to Chinese & Polish translations
Version 0.15.4
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