mac7z icon

Archive manager
for macOS & Linux

Drag, drop, compress, extract. mac7z wraps the battle-tested 7-Zip engine in a clean, native-feeling UI — built entirely with Flutter & Claude AI.

Apple Silicon Intel (x86_64) All releases View on GitHub
macOS 11+ Linux x64 Apache 2.0 Vibe-coded 🤖
Decompression tab
Compression tab

Features

Everything you need,
nothing you don't.

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Drag & Drop

Drop any archive directly into the window to instantly preview and extract its contents.

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Compression

Create .7z and .zip archives with adjustable compression level, from Store to Ultra.

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Split archives

Create and extract multi-volume archives (.7z.001, .zip.002…) with automatic detection.

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Encryption

Password-protected archives with AES-256 and header encryption for .7z.

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File preview

Browse archive contents before extracting — names, sizes, modification dates, search.

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35 languages

Fully localized UI — French, English, Spanish, German, Japanese, Arabic and more.

Get started in seconds.

1

Add the mac7z tap and install

brew tap romainpelletant/mac7z
brew install --cask mac7z
2

Launch mac7z from your Applications folder.

1

Download the latest DMG from the releases page.

Download DMG
2

Open the DMG and drag mac7z.app into Applications.

3

First launch: right-click → Open (required for ad-hoc signed apps).

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Install via .deb (Debian / Ubuntu)

sudo dpkg -i mac7z_0.9.0_amd64.deb
or

Portable tar.gz

tar -xzf mac7z-0.9.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
./bundle/mac7z
1

Clone and set up

git clone https://github.com/romainpelletant/mac7z
cd mac7z
./scripts/setup.sh   # downloads 7zz binary (macOS)
flutter pub get
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Run or build

flutter run -d macos          # debug
flutter build macos --release  # release