YAUZ

Yet Another Unzipper — a lightweight, cross-platform archive extraction tool built with Tauri and Rust. Inspired by UZip 2 from Farkway

Features

• Drag & drop or double-click to select archive files for extraction
• Password management — store extraction passwords (one per line), auto-deduplicated
• Batch extraction — process multiple archives at once with a single operation
• Smart password retry — automatically tries saved passwords on encrypted archives
• Custom 7-Zip path — point to any 7-Zip installation, supports environment variables (%ProgramFiles%, $HOME, etc.)
• Path validation — real-time check that the configured 7-Zip executable exists
• Multi-language UI — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and British English, with system language auto-detection
• Dark / Light mode — follows the operating system theme automatically
• Headless 7-Zip — no console windows flash during extraction on Windows
• Portable — single executable, no installation required; config file generated alongside the exe

Platform Requirements

Platform	Requirement
Windows	Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (pre-installed on Windows 11 and most updated Windows 10 systems)
macOS	macOS 10.15+ (uses built-in WKWebView)

Windows users: If WebView2 is not installed, YAUZ will show a prompt and open the download page on launch. Install the runtime, then relaunch YAUZ.

Supported Archive Formats

All formats supported by 7-Zip, including: zip, rar, 7z, tar, gz, bz2, xz, zst, and more.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Rust toolchain (1.77+)
• 7-Zip installed somewhere on your system

Build

cd src-tauri
cargo build --release

The output binary is at src-tauri/target/release/yauz.exe (Windows) or src-tauri/target/release/yauz (macOS).

Run

Place the built binary in a folder and launch it. On first run, you will be prompted to specify the path to your 7-Zip installation.

Project Structure

├── dist/                  # Frontend (HTML/CSS/JS)
│   ├── index.html         # Single-page app with i18n
│   └── fonts/             # Bundled MapleMono font
├── src-tauri/             # Rust backend (Tauri)
│   ├── Cargo.toml
│   ├── tauri.conf.json
│   └── src/
│       ├── main.rs        # Desktop entry point
│       └── lib.rs         # Core logic (extraction, config, commands)
├── package.json
└── README.md

Configuration

On first launch, a config.ini file is created next to the executable:

[settings]
7zip_dir=C:\Program Files\7-Zip
language=auto

[passwords]
password1
password2

License

MIT