ALZip File Manager & Unzip Android App Review

| January 15, 2016 | 1 Comment

If you’re looking for one tool that can handle a myriad of compression techniques, from RAR and ZIP to TAR and TGZ and almost 30 other formats, ALZip – File Manager & Unzip for Android just might be for you. The app is available for free download from Google Play Store.

Features

The interface looks contemporary and is well-made, with archive contents exhibited as icons, in a list or in a featured spreadsheet-style grid. There are 14 criteria by which you can sort files, the program supports 21 languages, there’s a test function to make sure the archive works, and you can save in eight formats. Users will also like the bird-egg icons, a small touch, to be sure, but they show that aesthetics are still significant, even in freeware. In fact, archive format support is ALZip’s forte. It’ll even open ISO and other CD images. All the usual archive application options are here, as well: context menu additions, password protections, virus scanner integration, and assistance in creating self-extracting archives. After a few moments of configuring the application, you can just double-click on an archive to open it. Depending on the speed you desire or can bear, the program can instantly open the archived files and folders in an Explorer-like window, letting you to peruse and open the files as if those were regular, not archived files. Or, you can have ALZip take out them to a predefined folder or prefer the desired action from a menu.

ALZip File Manager Unzip Android App Review

This extraction utility can read archives of over 36 formats, so you can open just about any compressed file with no trouble. Even unfamiliar files can be opened with ease. But yes, it can work the other way around and create archives too, among the eight formats the program supports, it has ALZ, the proprietary format that allows creating archives of unlimited size. With built-in AV scanner integration, you can always be sure that your archives are virus-free. This program leaves a, to some extent, larger footprint than WinZip, but since we’re talking about a difference of 2MB we think it’s worth giving ALZip a chance to fly. The app requires Android 4.0 and up.

Conclusion

ALZip – File Manager & Unzip for Android is a simple yet powerful tool that offers you all the functionality you can find on any commercial archive file manager. Besides all the supported zip/unzip formats mentioned above, the program introduces its own proprietary format, called EGG. This format offers quite a few advantages over other formats, like full Unicode support and the capacity to compress very large files. Besides, even though the program seems to be shareware at first, the publishers offer you a totally free serial number that you can use to activate the program indefinitely and with all its functionality – in other words, right now this is a free program.

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