Data compression software

Archivers with
compression
(comparison)

Free software	7-Zip Ark Expander FreeArc GNOME Archive Manager Info-ZIP KGB Archiver PAQ pax PeaZip XAD (decompression only) Xarchiver ZPAQ
Freeware	Filzip LHA StuffIt Expander (decompression only) The Unarchiver (decompression only) TUGZip ZipGenius
Commercial	ARC ALZip Archive Utility ARJ BetterZip MacBinary PKZIP/SecureZIP PowerArchiver StuffIt WinAce WinRAR WinZip

Non-archiving
compressors

Generic	bzip2 compress gzip lzip lzop pack rzip Snappy XZ Utils zstd
For code	UPX

Audio
compression
(comparison)

Lossy	AAC Fraunhofer FDK AAC Nero AAC Codec Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) Helix DNA Producer MP3 l3enc LAME TooLAME libavcodec libcelt libopus libspeex Musepack libvorbis Windows Media Encoder
Lossless	ALAC FLAC libavcodec Monkey's Audio mp4als OptimFROG Shorten TTA (True Audio) WavPack

Video
compression
(comparison)

MPEG-4 ASP	3ivx DivX Nero Digital FFmpeg HDX4 Xvid
H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC	CoreAVC Blu-code DivX FFmpeg Nero Digital OpenH264 QuickTime x264
HEVC	DivX x265
Others	CineForm Cinepak Daala DNxHD Helix DNA Producer Indeo libavcodec Schrödinger (Dirac) SBC Sorenson VP7 libtheora libvpx Windows Media Encoder

See also: compression methods and compression formats

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