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Review: WinZip 3

Oct 21 2014 5:36PM EST | Source: MacLife.com

It’s rare to find an archiving tool worth paying for these days. WinZip makes a better case than most, though, with an excellent interface and some handy features.

The main interface fills a gap that the built-in OS X archiver and its many alternatives miss, allowing ZIPs to be updated by dragging and dropping files, rather than treating the archive as a fixed thing to simply be created or extracted. WinZip is able to extract from ZIP, LHA, RAR and 7Z files and archive as ZIP, ZIPX and LHA, though it prefers its own format. 

One-click unzipping is available from the context menu, though the default is to open the ZIP in something approximating OS X’s standard folder views.

The cloud features let you add files from and extract ZIPs to your choice of destination on Dropbox/Google Drive (but not iCloud), which is done using their APIs rather than relying on shared folders already on your Mac.

For simply opening files, all of this is not really worth the best part of $30. That said, the interface that handles the ZIP files is a huge improvement if you do regularly make or receive zips with many files to sift through, or you simply want a way to be able to compress large numbers of files without losing the ability to deal with them on an individual basis

The bottom line. One of the best archiving tools around, but at a hefty price unless you find its features essential.

Review Synopsis

Product: 

WinZip Mac 3

Company: 

WinZip

Contact: 

Price: 

$29.95

Requirements: 

OS X 10.7 or later, 64-bit processor

Positives: 

One-click unzipping. Treats ZIPs as folders. Syncs to cloud storage.

Negatives: 

Comparatively pricey.


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