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open-source archive manager for macOS, now edits ZIPs

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HN · launched Aug 11, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 53%) · 0 views

Niche: desktop file management utilities · 185 launches, 29 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a macOS GUI utility around standard archive handling libraries (such as libzip) to read, display, and modify ZIP contents.

Discussion

3 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: 7-Zip, The Unarchiver, existing archive managers

Concerns raised: Writing limited to ZIP format only, Archives cannot be mounted yet, Password-protected archives have rough edges, 0.x version with breaking changes ahead

Feature requests: Support browsing remote zip files over HTTP/HTTPS, Support additional writable archive formats, Mount archives in Finder, Archive integrity and recovery tools

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1553 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #858 of 1554 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 283 days after the earliest competitor.

  • MacRAR · github · 2026-10-09 · 89 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • CozyZip · ph · 2026-11-09 · 76 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • depflush · github · 2026-09-24 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • alzip-desktop · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • DeltaSnap · hn · 2026-09-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • cawget · github · 2026-11-04 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • FormatWheel · github · 2026-10-21 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • QwikZip · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55

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