Out with the old, in with the new. The powerful archiver 8 Zip has expanded its set of capabilities with the new Continuum, Cortana and Windows Hello technologies.

Now one app, one license, a uniform design and functionality can be had on all types of devices. Decrypt files through an iris scan or at a touch. Listen to music, read documents, and watch videos right in the app. Share files with friends – it’s simple.

8 Zip is a cutting-edge archiver.

Distinctive features:

• High-speed archiving and unpacking.

• Incorporation of Continuum technology.

• Ability to decrypt archives using Windows Hello.

• Play music and video, display images and text files directly in the app.

• Send files by e-mail, post them on social networks, or share them on OneDrive and DropBox.

• Select the compression level and password protection.

• Print documents and images.

• One purchase gives you a license that is valid for all of your Windows 10 device.

8 Zip knows over 38 languages.

The app has been downloaded more than 8,000,000 times

Thank you for helping to make 8 Zip better! Simply send your suggestions for improvement to 8zip@finebits.com and show your support by giving us a ★★★★★ review.

Technical specifications:

• Create archives: zip, 7z, tar, gzip, bzip2, xz.

• Open and extract archives: rar, zip, 7z, zipx, iso, bzip2, gzip, tar, arj, cab, cbz, cbr.

• Built-in viewer and player.

• View images: jpeg, png, bmp, gif, tiff.

• Play music: mp3, wma, m4a, aac, wav, ac3.

• Watch video: avi, 3gp, wmv, mp4, m4v, mov, mkv.

• Open and view text documents: docx, doc, rtf, txt.

• Support for the latest archive formats: RAR5 and 7z.

• Various compression methods: Deflate, Deflate64, BZip, LZMA, PPMd.

• Create password-protected archives: 256-bit AES encryption.

• Ability to open encrypted files through Windows Hello and Microsoft Passport technology.

• Support for decompressing multivolume archives: zip, rar, 7z.

• Support for Drag&Drop technology.

• Support for SD cards.

• Ability to Extract with the application from the Windows Explorer's context menu.

Release notes:

• It's become easier to create an archive.

• Archive encryption is now enabled with one click only.

• Dark and light theme support has been added. Redone all color palettes.

• UI has been updated with Fluent design.

• Added new hotkeys.

• Now you can run multiple instances of the application.

• Added the ability to open a viewer in a new window. It allows you to look through the images or listen to music without unpacking the archive.

• 7-zip library updated.

• The archive navigation has been improved.

• SVG file support has been added to the built-in viewer.

06/26/2018

• Ability to Extract with the application from the Windows Explorer's context menu.

12/08/2017

• 7-Zip library was updated to version 16.04.

05/07/2017

• Creators Update support.

• Extended Share contract feature, now you can easily:

- send files from archive to the clipboard;

- unpack compressed file simple by sending it to 8 Zip from any other app including Explorer;

- unpack several archives at once;

- compress files with Share from another app including Explorer;

• Implemented auto update if you modified compressed document in external application.

• Added option to turn on app window transparency (aka NEON).

• Added compact overlay mode for image/audio/video viewer (aka Picture in picture).

• Added equalizer to audio player.

04/14/2017

• The restoring of original time of files and folders during extraction was added.

10/21/2016

• Xbox One support.

• Comic Book Archive support (.cbz, .cbr)

• UI improvements.

• New languages: Albanian, Croatian, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Serbian, Swedish.

6/18/2016

• Improved ability to select items in list for pen and mouse. Now you can do it using selection rectangle.

6/10/2016

• Integration with Cortana

04/16/2016

• Basic support of multitasking was added: packing and unpacking of small archives can be performed if app was minimized.

• Progress bar is shown when archive is opening.

03/18/2016

8 Zip has become a completely universal UWP app and now works on any Windows 10 device: PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone, Xbox One, Hololens, IoT devices.

Support has been added for Continuum, Windows Hello, and Microsoft Passport technologies.

12/20/2014

8 Zip is Universal app from now.

RAR5 support added.

Recent archives list.

New languages: Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Vietnamese, Greek, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Slovenian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Farsi, Hindi, Czech, Japanese.

09/13/2013

Advanced compression options

Built-in viewer

05/16/2013

In app Language selection

Translation fixes

05/05/2013

Slight interface improvements

A lot of bug fixes

New live tiles