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Zipora

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What Is Zipora

Zipora is a native macOS archive tool built with Swift / SwiftUI, designed for everyday desktop compression, extraction, preview, and archive organization.

It is not just an unzip utility. Zipora provides a complete archive workflow:

• Drag and drop files or folders to quickly create a new archive
• Open archives and preview tree structure, file sizes, and modified timestamps directly
• Extract to a selected directory and quickly locate results in Finder
• Keep a recent archive history for reopening, extracting, or continuing work
• Enter passwords during open or extract when a protected archive requires it
• Organize rebuildable archives by adding or removing files
• Add password protection to existing ZIP archives

Features

• Native macOS app built with Swift / SwiftUI
• Supports macOS 14 and later
• Home screen supports drag-and-drop for archive preview/extract, or dropping multiple files/folders to create archives
• Supports recent items, availability status, and encryption status recognition
• Supports archive content preview with current-folder search and hierarchical browsing
• Supports selecting extraction destination with progress display
• Supports entering passwords to continue opening or extracting protected archives
• Supports creating ZIP, 7Z, TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, and TAR.XZ
• Supports creating encrypted ZIP archives
• Supports archive editing for rebuildable formats: add files and remove files
• Supports adding password protection to existing ZIP archives

Supported Formats

Create Archives

The current UI can directly create the following formats:

• zip
• 7z
• tar
• tar.gz / tgz
• tar.bz2 / tbz2 / tbz
• tar.xz / txz

Notes:

• UI format labels are ZIP, 7Z, TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, and TAR.XZ
• tgz, tbz2, tbz, and txz are common alias extensions
• Only ZIP currently supports enabling password protection during archive creation

Open / Preview / Extract

Zipora currently supports opening, previewing, or extracting the following common formats:

7z / zip / tar / tgz / gz / bz2 / xz / lzma / zst / lz4 / lzip / cpio / xar / warc / rar / ar / a / deb / pkg / iso / cab / jar / apk / ipa / whl / mtree / shar

Actual support still depends on backend capabilities, plus archive structure, encryption method, and compatibility.

Current Implementation Notes

• Whether some encrypted archives can be read, previewed, or extracted still depends on underlying archive library support
• Password entry is currently supported during open / preview / extract flows for protected archives
• Creating encrypted ZIP archives is currently supported, and password protection can also be added to existing ZIP archives
• Archive editing is implemented as: extract to temporary workspace -> modify content -> rebuild and replace the original archive, rather than direct in-place archive structure editing
• Add / remove file actions are available only for formats that the app can currently rebuild
• By default, extraction creates a folder named after the archive file in your selected destination, then extracts contents into it