Anchor
Unzip 2x faster than 7-Zip and WinRAR, for free
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Anchor is a free archive tool for Windows that's built to be faster and safer than 7-Zip and WinRAR. • 2× faster on archives with many files (4,000-file ZIP: 2.55 s vs 5.87 s in 7-Zip) • Open a ZIP from a link and browse it before downloading • Repairs broken or cut-off downloads • Flags disguised programs and zip bombs before extracting • Nothing half-written: Undo any extraction • Modern UI, dark/light, 8 languages No ads, no accounts, no tracking.
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PH · launched Oct 16, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Linux
- Windows
- Productivity
Similar launches
See all 281 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial A basic Windows archive browser and extractor is vibe-codeable, but beating 7-Zip and WinRAR on speed and handling broken archives requires low-level, optimized decompression and format-parsing work that vibe coding alone won't deliver.
What it would actually take: The UI and file-association shell are straightforward, but the speed claim depends on optimized native decompression (C/C++ or Rust with SIMD and multithreading) and robust parsing of ZIP, RAR, and 7z edge cases. Repairing corrupt archives and detecting disguised file types also needs format expertise and extensive testing against malformed samples.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 281 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #143 of 282 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 306 days after the earliest competitor.
- LinkUnzip · ph · 2026-10-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- 7zip-File-Archiver-2026 · github · 2026-10-11 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Zipgeist · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ZipSee · hn · 2026-04-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- hatchzip · github · 2026-10-21 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Synczipr · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Zipperhide · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- QwikZip · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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- External ID
- 1281702
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- Anchor
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- All tags
- Linux, Windows, Productivity
- AI summary
- file unzipping tool for desktop users
- Manually corrected
- No