A roundup and review of fully WinZIP-compatible freeware ZIP programs -- compared on the basis of usability.

Small and simple contextual menu based zip program with full ZIP-64 huge-archive compression.

A small GUI utility for working with files in gzip format. It allows to compress any file into gzip format, decompress and test the integrity of already gzipped files.

ZIP program with a skinned interface and full support for over 20 compression formats.

Offers a free implementation of the ARJ archiver for several operating systems such as DOS, Windows and GNU/Linux.

Compact ZIP tool with unusual features such as browsing ZIP files before downloading and full-text search of ZIP file contents.

A small GUI utility for working with files in bzip2 format, compressing, decompressing and testing the integrity of bzip2 files.

ZIP tool with integrated virus check and integrated emailing for quick ZIP and send. Supports SFX creation and pre-extraction viewing.

Encoding for Amigas that uses large match offsets and file merging.

Compact Windows compression program that creates small .DZ archive files. Integrates with Windows Explorer.