When the makers of the archive tool Bandizip started to make changes that were disliked by part of the userbase, it was PeaZip among several other apps that users switched to.
The open source archiving software is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The developers have released version 10.0 recently; reason enough to take another look at it and highlight what is new and changed.
Also worth a consideration:
PeaZip 10.0
The big new change in the new version is one that you may not notice right away. PeaZip launches with a redesigned graphical user interface. That is often cause for concern, but not with this release.
The developers highlight more icon sizes, updated themes, and “better organized menus” as the key elements.
Take a look at the two screenshots below. The first shows the PeaZip 9.x interface, the second the new interface in PeaZip 10.0.
As you can see, some of the icons have received a color upgrade, which may help differentiate between them better.
You can check out the theming options under Options > Settings > Themes.
There you find plenty of preferences to customize the look and feel. To name a few of those: set the main color, accents, contrast, spacing, colors of toolbars and more.
As far as other changes are concerned, here is what the developers reveal:
- New options in the File Tools menu: save checksum / hash in GNU Coreutils compatible format., and search hash online for malware.
- Updated the backends 7z and Pea to the latest version.
- Supports a total of 234 file extensions as archives.
You can check out the full changelog here.
PeaZip, 7-Zip, or something different? Which archive software do you use mainly, and why? Feel free to leave a comment down below.
You can download some user made themes too. Latest PeaZip works with v3, v4 and v5 user made themes. I assume v3 and v4 themes are partially black and white. Only v5 themes are using new color changes. I have not tried any of them yet, and I am using PeaZip for years.
Force of habit. Still mostly using old WinRAR for unzipping and zipping files. And WinRAR has very attractive icon package sets. Before installing PeaZip as backup for WinRAR, I actually had WinZip. But WinZip became a slow, bloated monstrosity. It looks gorgeous when it is open, but it is extremely slow.
I have used 7-zip for years. Its free, has a simple to used gui interface, works great, and is a valuable file management tool. If you ever had a file path or file name that was over the windows supported leanth and could not be accessed. This tool has the ability to open that pathway, get to the file, and delete or modify it.
+1 for 7Zip. Simple, solid, stable, proven (been around for 25 years).
I don’t see anything wrong with PeaZip – my understanding is that it borrows some 7Zip code – but it solves a problem I don’t have.