What is the free zip and rar software I can download?

Hi,

There are free alternatives to Win Zip. I am listing the name of them. you can download them from their official website or from CNET software section.

jZip: This is an alternative to Win Zip. The features are as follows:

1. Create, open and extract Zip, TAR, GZip and 7-Zip. Open and extract from RAR and ISO.
2. jZip is absolutely FREE for everybody, home and enterprise users
3. jZip is an easy to use and fast archiving software
4. Create Zip compatible files
5. Unzip any Zip file archives
6. Supports other archive formats like TAR, GZip and RAR
7. Improved compression ratio
8. Fast compression engine

Currently the version is 1.3. jZip is a powerful and reliable compression utility. jZip is based on proven and reliable 7-Zip.

IZArc: Another free software supporting many formats like zip, rar, bin, cue, cab etc. With this you can also open CD/DVD image such as iso, cdi, nrg etc. It supports supports 256-bit AES encryption to secure your data. Also it helps you to repair the broken archives.

7Zip: This is the most famous open source software. It can be run on any computer system and it is highly reliable. The main features are:

1. High compression ratio in 7Z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
2. Supported all of the popular formats
3. For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
4. Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
5. Self-extracting capability for 7z format
6. Powerful File Manager
7. Powerful command line version
8. Localizations for 79 languages

These are the best alternatives that you may choose. I hope this information will help you.