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Purrchiver
A clean Mac archive utility.
No ads. No subscriptions. No tracking. Period.
A few things it doesn't do.
Charge a subscription.
Bought it? You own it. No annual fees, no renewal prompts, no rented features. Pay once and the app is yours.
Track you.
No analytics SDKs. No telemetry. No behavior pings. Activity Monitor stays quiet — verify it yourself.
A few things it does do (and well!).
Every format you'd expect.
ZIP, RAR (multi-part + encrypted), 7z, tar, gz, bz2, xz, zstd, ISO, AAR, XIP, PKG, IPA, CPIO, .deb, .rpm — 30+ read, 20+ write.
Edit archives in place.
Open an archive, add files, remove entries. Save when you're done. No extract-the-whole-thing-and-rezip dance.
Drag-drop anywhere.
Drop archives on the dock icon, on the app window, or right-click any file in Finder to use the Services menu.
Respects every system setting.
Light/dark mode, accent color, Reduce Motion, Reduce Transparency, Increase Contrast, Dynamic Type — Purrchiver follows your Mac, not the other way around.
Clear errors that mean something.
Got a Windows installer? Purrchiver tells you so. Missing a RAR part? It names the file. Password wrong? It says so — not just "extraction failed".
Made by one person.
Built by Corey Daley. Not an app farm. Not a marketing team. Email goes directly to the developer.
Every archive you'll actually meet.
30+ formats read, 20+ write — grouped by where you encounter them.
Common
| Format | Read | Write |
|---|---|---|
| ZIP | ||
| ZIP + AES-256 | ||
| ZipCrypto ZIP | — | |
| RAR4 | — | |
| RAR5 | — | |
| Multi-part RAR | — | |
| Encrypted RAR | — | |
| 7z | ||
| 7z + AES-256 | ||
| tar | ||
| .tar.gz | ||
| .tar.bz2 | ||
| .tar.xz | ||
| .tar.zst | ||
| .tar.lz | ||
| gzip | ||
| bzip2 | ||
| xz | ||
| Zstandard | ||
| Brotli | ||
| LZMA | ||
| ISO 9660 |
Apple ecosystem
| Format | Read | Write |
|---|---|---|
| AAR Apple Archive |
Unix & Linux
| Format | Read | Write |
|---|---|---|
| CPIO | ||
| .deb | — | |
| .rpm | — | |
| .lz lzip | ||
| .lz4 |
Legacy & archival
| Format | Read | Write |
|---|---|---|
| LHA | — | |
| LZH | — | |
| CAB | — | |
| WARC | — | |
| .Z compress | — |
Plus, peek inside these signed Apple installer formats:
- XIP
- PKG
- MPKG
- IPA
- XAR
Security & privacy
An archive utility should be the boring one.
It opens your files and gets out of the way. Nothing else.
Sandboxed by design.
App Sandbox is enabled. Purrchiver only sees files you explicitly grant access to — no system-wide read, no disk scanning.
Doesn't phone home.
No analytics pings, no update checks, no crash uploads. The app has no network entitlement — even App Store receipt validation runs at the OS level, outside the app process.
AES-256, verified.
Encrypted archives use the same algorithm 7-Zip and WinRAR do. Every encrypted archive is verified after creation by default — a typo never locks you out.
No third-party analytics.
SwiftUI, App Sandbox, Apple's own frameworks for everything you can see. No Firebase, no Sentry, no Mixpanel — nothing else is along for the ride.
Crash reports stay local.
Generated on your Mac. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to email a report to the developer — and you can read it first.
Built by Corey Daley
Made by one person. No team. No exit strategy.
I'm not an app farm. I'm not a marketing team. Email goes directly to me. If something's broken, I'm the one who fixes it. If you have a feature request, I'm the one who reads it.
One price. One time.
$19.99
- Mac App Store
- Fully featured
- No subscriptions, no upgrades, no upsells