taxis reviewed v18.04 Beta on Apr 26, 2018

Pros: - very well designed efficient "7z" format (fast, high compression rate)
- supports most common formats
- open source, pipeline architecture
- stable, no bloat

Cons: no support for RAR, no error-correction

Bottom Line: Excellent general-purpose archiver. For those who complain about the "beta" state, it is just a word. I use it for years and found it very reliable, much more so than a lot of "release" software.

seekingmyfreedom reviewed v18.00 Beta on Jan 10, 2018

Pros: Nice interface

Cons: None

Bottom Line: 18.00 is still a beta.

aaronpriest reviewed v17.00 on May 9, 2017

17.00 is still beta

rallen52 reviewed v16.04 on Oct 5, 2016

great app,can someone tell me how to change the icons,can t figure out the manager,thanks

Aegis69 reviewed v15.10 Beta on Nov 3, 2015

Why in the name of Odins beard do they continue to use these incredibly ugly icons, the application will never get anywhere as long as they continue to use them.

You can manually update the icons with the following link, but why do they not just change them??

http://www.7ztm.de/

gregzeng reviewed v15.08 Beta on Oct 2, 2015

7z1508-x64.exe
OPEN SOURCE, compared to copyright (foreign, unknown) stuff hidden in newish RAR, etc.
Also available as 32 bit.
Allows compression, decompression of many file types.
Regularly improved, upgraded, with compatibility with many older & freeware versions.
State of the art GUI menu interface, with good folder usage, file usage.
Version inbuilt into my favorite file browser (Servant Salamander) is faster, & almost as tightly compressed.
7-zip is used as a benchmark standard by many reviewing sites.
Benchmarking allows 8-core tests.
Ultra-compilation only allows 2-core, with very small improvement on overall compression.

Music4Ever reviewed v15.08 Beta on Oct 1, 2015

Its very good but not IMO as good as Winrar, but I don't think anything is - Great for free though!

inkowyouknow reviewed v15.05 Beta on Jun 25, 2015

The only program to use, forget winzip and there charges this is free and does the same job if not better.

Kaden reviewed v15.00 Alpha on Apr 6, 2015

dhry, refer here for Igor Pavlov's own explanation as to what seems like 7-Zip's odd version numbering: http://sourceforge.net/p...n/45797/thread/e127e39c . This is an old explanation but still holds true.

dhry reviewed v15.00 Alpha on Apr 6, 2015

Why the did version of this program go from 9.38 to 15.00?

Enlightenment reviewed v9.38 Beta on Apr 4, 2015

7-Zip still doesn't support file recovery redundancy data to protect archive files against file damage, nor does 7-Zip support a larger file checksum than 32-bit CRC32.

WinRAR has options for file recovery and 256-bit BLAKE2 file hash.

7z isn't as robust for long-term storage as the better RAR file format.

Free is NOT always better!!

Enlightenment reviewed v9.38 Beta on Apr 4, 2015

7-Zip still doesn't support file recovery redundancy data to protect archive files against file damage, nor does 7-Zip support a larger file checksum than 32-bit CRC32.

WinRAR has options for file recovery and 256-bit BLAKE2 file hash.

7z isn't as robust for long-term storage as the better RAR file format.

Free is NOT always better!

dhry reviewed v9.38 Beta on Jan 5, 2015

Way better than WinRAR, and completely free. I use this every single day.

BANDIT- reviewed v9.36 Beta on Dec 27, 2014

Great for working with APK's... 5*

I don't like rating against my Fav... Winrar.
Which just doesn't cut it with APK's (the way i need).

A good 2015 to All... ^_^