In addition to compression, ZIP files are archives that can group together multiple files and folders. In the cloud, ZIP files are commonly found as both Gmail attachments, as well as files stored in Google Drive or other cloud-based storage systems such as Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive.
Today, the ZIP file format remains in heavy use in the internet and in the cloud, with billions of such files in circulation. Once received, the ZIP file would then be opened and its contents decompressed ("unzipped") onto a user's computer. It also allowed for multiple files and folders to be grouped together ("zipped") and transferred as a single ZIP file. Using ZIP compression regularly saved minutes or even hours off of file transfers. In this era, file transfers occurred using MODEMs and transfer speeds were very limited. The ZIP file format dates to the late 1980s when it received heavy use in pre-internet-era Bulletin Board Systems, or BBSes. The ZIP file format is very popular for efficiently storing and transferring groups of files in a variety of business and personal applications. This makes our cloud-based tools very secure.ZIP files are compressed archives that group together one or more files into a single file, compressing the files (making them smaller) that are contained inside. Our cloud-based online tools use HTTPS to encrypt your data sent to and downloaded from our cloud infrastructure, and only you have access to your data (unless you have chosen to share it). Sometimes however this is not optimal or possible for tools which for example require high processing power, display maps aware of your current location, or allow you to share data. We work hard to make our tools run locally on your device since avoiding sending data over the internet is more secure.
To achieve this we use HTML5 and WebAssembly, a form of code that is run by the browser itself allowing our tools to execute at near-native speed. All the work is done locally by the browser itself, making these tools very fast and secure.
Our online tools which execute locally on your device don't need to send your data (your files, your audio or video data, etc.) over the internet. Protecting your privacy is one of our main concerns when developing our tools. We develop secure online tools that are cloud-based or that execute locally on your device. The following file extensions are supported: rar, 7z, apk, zip, zipx, tar, bz2, gz, xz, jar, war, cab, bzip2, gzip, tar.bz2, tgz, tar.gz, tar.xz.
You can extract the content of an unlimited amount of archives without having to install any software, without having to sign up, and without having to transfer your files.
This means that in comparison to other archive openers our archive extractors are fast, economical on data transfers, and anonymous (your privacy is totally protected since your archive files are not transferred over the internet). The other online archive extractors typically send your archives to a server in order to extract them and then the extracted files are downloaded back to your computer.
Our online archive openers are unique: they don’t need to transfer your archives to a remote server in order to extract them, the decompression and extraction is done by the browser itself! Check out the “No data transfers” section below to learn more. Our online archive extractors allow you to extract and save the content of compressed archives directly from your browser. Introduction to the Archive Extractor online tool