

The Unarchiver is available either from the official website or the App Store. This completely free archive extraction program for Mac OS X handles many archive file formats and comes with a number of advanced features, such as support for foreign character sets in file names and deep system integration. One popular alternative is The Unarchiver.

However, Archive Utility might be too simplistic for those users who desire a finer degree of control over the data compression algorithms of the ZIP file format.

This simple utility uses the ZIP file archive format by default, making it simple to open and create ZIP files. All Mac computers come with a built-in file archive utility, Archive Utility.app.
