Local archive manager for macOS

A fast, private archive manager for your Mac.

Open, create, inspect, test, and safely extract archives without sending your files anywhere. Archi runs entirely on your Mac, powered by the bundled 7-Zip 26.02 engine.

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Archi 0.5.0 · macOS 13 or later · Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel) · Signed & notarized

Archi 0.5.0 browsing a fictional sample ZIP with filename and file-type filters.
Actual Archi 0.5.0 interface shown with fictional sample data.
Signed & notarized by Apple
Universal: Apple Silicon + Intel
Powered by bundled 7-Zip 26.02
No accounts, ads, or analytics

Features

Everything an archive app should do

macOS handles basic ZIPs. Archi is a complete archive manager: browse before you extract, build and edit archives, and keep every operation local, observable, and reversible.

Open and preview files

Browse, filter by filename or file type, sort, and test archives, then double-click a safe file or press Spacebar for Quick Look.

Safe, staged extraction

Output is validated in a private staging area first. Unsafe paths, links, collisions, and source replacement are blocked.

Create and safely edit

Create ZIP, 7z, TAR.GZ, TAR.XZ, TAR.ZST, GZIP, XZ, and Zstandard files. Add, delete, or rename entries in ZIP and 7z.

Fits into Finder

Open archives from Finder, drag files in or out, and run five Finder Services — Extract Here, Extract to Folder, Test, Compress to ZIP, and Compress with Options.

Private by design

No accounts, uploads, analytics, advertising, or tracking. Passwords exist only for the active operation.

Cancellable, observable jobs

See progress, the current entry, speed, and warnings. Cancel while archive work is running; final output commits atomically.

Formats

The formats you actually meet

One app for the archives people send you — and the ones you send out.

Create & modify

AES-256 encryption, entry editing, comments for ZIP, and multi-volume sets.

ZIP 7z

Create

Create compound TAR archives or compress one regular file as a stream.

TAR.GZ TAR.XZ TAR.ZST GZIP XZ ZSTD

Browse & extract

Supported formats below, plus best-effort CAB, ISO, LZH, and LHA.

RAR/RAR5 TAR TBZ2 BZIP2 AR CPIO CAB ISO LZH/LHA
See the full operation-by-operation matrix →

Privacy & safety

Your archives never leave your Mac

Archi has no accounts, advertising, analytics, or usage tracking. It does not upload archive contents, file names, passwords, history, or diagnostics — archive operations don't even need a network connection.

Passwords stay private

Passwords are kept only for the active operation, never written to settings, history, process arguments, or diagnostics.

Extraction is staged & checked

Traversal paths, absolute paths, archive links, unsafe collisions, and source replacement are all blocked before install.

Nothing phones home

No crash-report uploads, no update pings, no telemetry of any kind in Archi 0.5.0.

You control local history

Up to ten recent archive paths stay on your Mac — disable or clear them any time from Settings.

Read the full privacy statement.

Download

Get Archi for Mac

One universal DMG for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

Download Archi 0.5.0 All releases

macOS 13 or later · Universal binary

1

Download the universal DMG from the latest release on GitHub.

2

Open the DMG and drag Archi into Applications.

3

Open Archi from Applications — then double-click any archive, or drop files in.

Windows and Linux builds are not available yet. Release notes · Known limitations