MacPacker
open-source archive manager for macOS, now edits ZIPs
Details
- External ID
- 49265124
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- MacPacker
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4731182795698925
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche creative and graphics software
- Vertical
- —
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macos archive manager with zip editing
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 552 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #286 of 553 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 283 days after the earliest competitor.
- depflush · github · 2026-09-24 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- DeltaSnap · hn · 2026-09-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- QwikZip · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- ZipGo - Unarchive RAR 7Z ZIP · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- WonderBox · github · 2026-09-20 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MrEditor · hn · 2026-09-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Farchive · hn · 2026-04-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- GhostVM · hn · 2026-03-16 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.