Bandizip is a powerful archiver which provides an ultrafast processing speed and convenient features. Available free of charge, and its paid editions support a variety of advanced features.
Main features
- Supported OS: Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11 (32bit/64bit/arm64)
- All-inclusive compression / decompression / browsing / editing Archiver
- Extraction for 30+ formats, including RAR/RAR5/7Z/ZIP
- Compressing an archive with password and multi-volume
- Fast compression with multi-core
- Windows 11 Context Menu support
Compression
- Supported formats: ZIP, 7Z(lzma2), ZIPX(xz), EXE(sfx), TAR, TGZ, LZH(lh7), ISO(joliet), GZ, and XZ
- ZIP file modification (add/delete/rename)
- Up to 6 times faster compression using multi-core
- Encrypted archive creation
- Supports AES256 encryption algorithm
- Supports compression of 4GB+ size files
- Unicode or MBCS filename for ZIP format
- Multi-volume archive creation of ZIP/7z format
Decompression
- Supported formats: 7Z, ACE, AES, ALZ, ARJ, BH, BIN, BR, BZ, BZ2, CAB, Compound(MSI), DAA(1.0), DEB, EGG, GZ, IMG, ISO, ISZ, LHA, LZ, LZH, LZMA, PMA, RAR, RAR5, SFX(EXE), TAR, TBZ/TBZ2, TGZ, TLZ, TXZ, UDF, WIM, XPI, XZ, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, ZPAQ, PEA, UU, UUE, XXE, ASAR, ZSTD, and NSIS
- Easy view of an archive"s file list
- Extraction of selected files only. Also supports drag & drop
- Availability of ZIP & RAR format archive comment
- One-step extraction of TGZ/TBZ formats
Various features
- File integrity check test to ensure whether an archive is damaged or not
- Supports Code-page change features
- Explorer shell menu integration
Bandizip 7.42 Build 71273 changelog:
- Fixed a vulnerability that occurs when creating hard-linked files (KVE-2026-0606, Thanks to CubicPopCorn)
- Fixed a vulnerability that occurs when handling file names in the TAR format (Thanks to storm).
- Fixed a vulnerability related to MoTW
- Improved detection accuracy of the codepage auto-detection
- Fixed a bug with the Password Recovery
- Fixed a bug related to the right-click menu
- Corrected an error message related to hard link creation
- Modified the d command in the CLI to operate not recursively
- Fixed a bug that antimalware scanning by AMSI does not work correctly for some archive formats
- Fixed a bug related to handling of NFD filenames in some ZIP archives
- Fixed a bug related to drag-n-drop handling
- Improved BandiView association for archived image files
- Fixed a bug that some file paths are processed incorrectly when archiving files
- Other modifications
Download: Bandizip 64-bit | Portable | ~7.0 MB (Free, ad-supported)
Download: Bandizip 32-bit | 11.0 MB
Download Bandizip 6.29 (last freeware version)
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