| Program | Latest version | Author | GUI | Used algoritms | Website / download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7-Zip | 4.65 | Igor Pavlov | Y | f + LZMA + PPMII + LZ77 + BWT | http://www.7-zip.org/ |
| ABC | 2.4 | Jürgen Abel | N | BWT | http://www.data-compression.info/ABC/ |
| ACB | 2.00c | George Buyanovsky | N | AC | ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/acb_200c.zip |
| AI | 1.1 | E.Ilya | Y¹ | ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/ai11.zip | |
| ALZip | 7.0 | ESTsoft | Y | http://www.altools.net/ | |
| APPACK | 0.43 | Jorgen Ibsen | N | LZ | http://ibsensoftware.com/products_aPLib.html |
| Archiver | 1.0 | JaboSoft | Y | http://www.jabosoft.com/archiver.htm | |
| ARHANGEL | 1.40 | George Lyapko | Y | http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/6606/arhangel.htm | |
| ARJ | 2.84 | ARJ Software | Y¹ | LZSS + Huff | http://www.arjsoftware.com/ |
| ASH | 06a | Eugene Shelwien | N | CM | http://ctxmodel.net/files/ASH/ |
| Balz | 1.15 | Ilia Muraviev | N | f + ROLZ | http://balz.sourceforge.net/ |
| BAR | 1.1.2 | Frank Jennings | N | BWT | http://www.jinicms.com/bar/ |
| BBB | ver 1 | Matt Mahoney | N | BWT | http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/text.html |
| BCArchiver | 2.01 | Jetico, Inc | Y | http://www.jetico.com/ | |
| BEE | 0.7.9+ | Andrew Filinsky | Y | CM | http://www.beegui.org/downloads.html |
| BigCrunch | 0.4 RC1 | Arkanosis | N | http://bcrunch.online.fr/ | |
| BioArc | 1.9 | Merlin+ Ltd | Y | f | ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/bioarc19.zip |
| BJWFLATE | 1.54 | Ben Jos Walbeehm | N | http://www.clrmame.com/download.htm | |
| BMA | 1.35b | Alexander Cherenkov | N | f + BWT + MTF + Ari | http://forrox.narod.ru/bma_ru.htm |
| BMF | 2.0 | Dmitry Shkarin | N | http://www.compression.ru/ds | |
| BOA | 0.58b | Ian Sutton | N | PPM | ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/boa058.zip |
| BriefLZ | 1.04 | Joergen Ibsen | N | LZ | http://ibsensoftware.com/download.html |
| BSSC | 0.95a | Sergeo Sizikov | N | f + BWT + DC | http://ssergeo.narod.ru/bssc.htm |
| BZIP2 | 1.0.5 | Julian Seward | N | BWT | http://www.bzip.org/ |
| Cabarc | 1.00.0601 | Microsoft | Y¹ | f + LZX + Huff + SF | http://www.microsoft.com/ |
| CCM | 1.30c | Christian Martelock | N | f + CM | http://christian.martelock.googlepages.com/index.htm |
| CHILE | 0.5 | Alexandru Mosoi | N | BWT | http://alexandru.mosoi.googlepages.com |
| Coder | 1.1 | Arkadi Kagan | N | LZ + Huff + ARI | http://sourceforge.net/projects/compressions |
| Compressia | 1.0 | Yaakov Gringeler | Y | f + BWT + ARI + PPMII | http://www.compressia.com/ |
| CTW | 0.1 | Frans Willems | N | CTW | http://www.ele.tue.nl/ctw/ |
| CTXf | 0.75b1 | Nikita Lesnikov | Y | f + PPMII | http://www.nlo-one.narod.ru/ctx/index.html |
| DACT | 0.8.41 | Roy Keene | N | http://www.rkeene.org/oss/dact/ | |
| DARK | 0.51 | Dima Malyshev | N | BWT+DC | http://darchiver.narod.ru/ |
| DC | 0.99.307b ? | Edgar Binder | N | f + BWT + DC + ARI | ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/dc124.zip |
| DST | 0.9b / 0.91b | Tommaso Guglielmi | N | LZ77 + PPM + Huff | ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/dst09b.zip |
| Durilca | 0.5b | Dmitry Shkarin | N | f + PPMII | http://www.compression.ru/ds |
| DZIP | 2.9 | Stefan Schwoon | Y | http://www.planetquake.com/sda/dzip/ | |
| EAZEL | 1.0 | Silicom Internet S.L | Y | http://www.eazel.com/en/ | |
| Emilcont | 0.3a | Berto Destasio | N | CM | http://www.freewebs.com/emilcont/ |
| Enc | 0.15 | Serge Osnach | N | f + PPMII | http://www.compression.ru/so/ |
| EPM | r9 | Serge Osnach | N | f + PPMII | http://www.compression.ru/so/ |
| ERI | 5.1fre | Alexander Ratushnyak | N | http://go.to/artest | |
| File2Pack | 2.0 | Mental9 Production | N | http://www.mental9production.com/ | |
| FreeARC | 0.50a | Bulat Ziganshin | N | f + LZMA PPMd LZP | http://www.haskell.org/bz/ |
| GRZip | 0.7.3 | Grebnov Ilya | N | http://magicssoft.ru/?folder=projects&page=GRZip | |
| GRZipII | 0.2.4 | Grebnov Ilya | N | BWT,ST4 + MTF,WFC + ARI | http://magicssoft.ru/ |
| GZip | 1.3.5 | Jean-loup Gailly | N | LZ77 | http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm |
| HA | 0.999b | Harri Hirvola | N | PPM | ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/ha_nt.zip |
| HiP | beta 1 | Danilo Bzdok | N | http://scifi.pages.at/yoda9k/ | |
| HIPP | 0.5819 | Bogatov Roman | N | CM | http://www-lat.compression.ru/download/articles/cm/hipp/hipp |
| HOOK | 1.3 | Nania Francesco Antonio | N | DMC | http://www.cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/hook.zip |
| HuffComp | 1.3 | Danilo Bzdok | N | Huff+RLE+BWT+MFT | http://scifi.pages.at/yoda9k/ |
| ICEOWS | 4.20b | Raphaël Mounier | Y | http://www.iceows.com/ | |
| JAR | 1.02 | ARJ Software | Y¹ | f + LZSS + Huff | http://www.arjsoftware.com |
| Jcalg1 | 5.32 | Jeremy Collake | N | LZSS | http://www.collakesoftware.com/ |
| KZip | Apr 14 2007 | Ken Silverman | N | http://www.advsys.net/ken/utils.htm | |
| LHA | 2.67 | Haruyasu Yoshizaki | N | ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/lha267.exe | |
| LHARK | 0.4d | Kerwin F. Medina | N | LZH | http://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/packages/pub/pc/pack/lhark04d.zip |
| LZ | 1.0 | Danilo Bzdok | N | LZ77 | http://scifi.pages.at/yoda9k/ |
| Lz2a | 02-04-2005 | Brendan G Bohannon | N | LZ | http://bgb-sys.sourceforge.net/ |
| LZOP | 1.02rc1 | Markus Oberhumer | N | LZ | http://www.lzop.org/ |
| LZPX(J) | 1.2h | I. Muraviev + Jan Ondrus | N | LZP + ARI | http://sourceforge.net/projects/lzpx/ |
| LZTurbo | 0.92 | Hamid Bouzidi | N | LZ77 | |
| M03 | 2005-02-15 | Mij4x | Y | http://mij4x.datacompression.jp/ | |
| M99 | 2.2.1 | M. A. Maniscalco | Y | BWT | http://www.michael-maniscalco.com/compression.htm |
| MAR | 1999 | Xann | N | LZH BWT PPM | ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/mar.rar |
| MNZIP | r32 | Michael Niedermayer | N | BWT + MTF | http://guru.multimedia.cx/mnzip/ |
| MRP | 04 | Ichiro Matsuda | N | http://itohws03.ee.noda.sut.ac.jp/~matsuda/mrp/ | |
| NanoZip | 0.06a | Sami Runsas | N | f + CM + lzp | http://www.nanozip.net/ |
| Ocamyd | 1.66 | Frank Schwellinger | N | DM | http://de.geocities.com/ocamyd/ |
| OrangeArchiver | 1.06a | Hira | Y | BWT | http://hira.hopto.org/ab.htm |
| PAC | 17apr2004 | Gérard Meunier | N | BWT + LZ77 + Huff | http://www.zinnamturm.de/#Pac |
| PackJPG | 2.3 | Matthias Stirner | N | ARI | http://www.elektronik.htw-aalen.de/packJPG/ |
| PAQ8 | PAQ8p | Matt Mahoney | Y¹ | f + CM | http://www.cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/ |
| PAQAR | 4.5 | M.Mahoney / A.Ratushnyak | Y¹ | CM | http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/ |
| PASQDA | 4.4 | Przemyslaw Skibinski | N | f + CM | http://www.ii.uni.wroc.pl/~inikep/ |
| PIM | 2.90 | Ilia Muraviev | Y | f + PPM | http://www.encode.ru/ |
| PIMPLE | 2.0 | Ilia Muraviev | Y | f + PPM | http://www.encode.ru/ |
| PKZIP | 2.50 | PKWARE Inc. | N | LZ77 | http://www.pkware.com/ |
| PPMd | Var J rev.1 | Dmitry Shkarin | N | PPMII | http://www.compression.ru/ds/ |
| PPMN | 1.00b1+ (build 4) | Max Smirnov | N | f + PPM | http://www.compression.ru/ms/ppmn_km.rar |
| PPMonstr | Var J | Dmitry Shkarin | N | PPMII | http://www.compression.ru/ds |
| PPMT | 0.1 | Andrew Frolov | N | PPM | http://falinc.narod.ru/ |
| PPMVC | 1.2 | D.Shkarin P.Skibinski | N | PPMII | http://www.ii.uni.wroc.pl/~inikep/ |
| PPMY | SSE 2.02(3c) 9A9 | Eugene Shelwien | N | PPM | http://www.compression.ru/sh/ppmy_9a9.rar |
| PPMZ2 | 0.81 | Charles Bloom | N | PPM | http://www.cbloom.com/src/ppmz.html |
| PreComp | 0.3.4 | Christian Schneider | N | http://schnaader.info/precomp.html | |
| PSA | 0.91a | Serge Pachkovsky | N | ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/psa91w32.zip | |
| QAZAR | 0.0 pre5 | Denis Kyznetsov | N | LZP + ARI | http://www.qarc.narod.ru/ |
| QC | 0.050 | Denis kyznetsov | N | LZ + PPM | http://www.qarc.narod.ru/ |
| Quark | 0.95r | Frederic Bautista | N | LZ | http://www.maximumcompression.com/quark095r.rar |
| QuickLZ | 1.40b6 | Lasse Reinhold | N | LZSS | http://www.quicklz.com/ |
| RK | 1.04.1a | Malcolm Taylor | Y¹ | f + LZ + PPMZ | http://www.msoftware.co.nz |
| RKC | 1.02 | Malcolm Taylor | N | f + LZ + PPMZ | http://www.msoftware.co.nz |
| Rzip | 2.1 | Andrew Tridgell | N | http://rzip.samba.org/ | |
| SBC | 0.970 rev3 | Sami J. Makinen | Y¹ | f + BWT + DC + ARI | http://sbcarchiver.netfirms.com/ |
| Secura Archiver | 1.7 | Perception | N | http://www.cmfperception.com/securaarchiver.html | |
| ShipInBottle | 1.0 beta 17 | Alexander Turikov | Y | http://shipinbottle.chessalex.com/ | |
| Slim | 0.23d | Serge Voskoboynikov | N | f + PPMII | http://www.bars-trade.com/slim/ |
| SLUG | 1.24 | Christian Martelock | N | LZ | http://christian.martelock.googlepages.com/index.htm |
| Squeez | 5.61 | R.Nausedat / S.Ritter | Y | http://www.speedproject.de/enu/squeez/ | |
| SR3 | SR3a | Matt Mahoney | N | SR + ARI | http://www.cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/ |
| SRANK | 1.0 | Peter Fenwick | N | SR | ftp://ftp.cs.auckland.ac.nz/pub/staff/peter-f/ |
| Stuffit | 12.0 | Smith Micro | Y | http://www.stuffit.com/ | |
| Szip | 1.12b | Michael Schindler | N | http://www.compressconsult.com/szip/ | |
| TarsaLZP | 21 August 2007 | Piotr Tarsa | N | LZP | http://www.maximumcompression.com/TarsaLZP.zip |
| TC | 5.2 dev2 | Ilia Muraviev | N | LZP + PPM | http://www.encode.ru/ |
| THOR | 0.96 | Oscar Garcia | N | LZP + Huff | http://www.maximumcompression.com/thor_096.zip |
| Tornado | 0.4a | Bulat Ziganshin | N | LZ + ARI | http://www.haskell.org/bz/tor.rar |
| Transform | 1.02 | Michael Bone | N | BWT | http://users.senet.com.au/~mjbone/ |
| TURTLE | 0.07 | Nania Francesco Antonio | N | PPM + LZP | http://www.winturtle.netsons.org |
| UFA | 0.04 b1 | Igor Pavlov | N | http://www.7-zip.org/igor.html | |
| UHARC | 0.6b | Uwe Herklotz | Y¹ | f + PPM + LZP + LZ77 + ARI | ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/uharc06b.zip |
| UHBC | 1.0 | Uwe Herklotz | N | BWT + ARI | ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/uhbc10.zip |
| UPX | 3.03 | M.Oberhumer & L.Molnár | N | http://upx.sourceforge.net/ | |
| WinACE | 2.69 | Marcel Lemke | Y | f + LZ77 + Huff | http://www.winace.com/ |
| WinHKI | 1.81 | Hanspeter Imp | Y | http://www.winhki.com/en/index.htm | |
| WinImp | 1.21 | Technelysium Pty Ltd | Y | f + LZ77 + BWT + Huff | http://www.technelysium.com.au/winimp.html |
| WinRAR | 3.80 | Eugene Roshal | Y | f + LZ77 + PPMII + Huff | http://www.rarsoft.com/ |
| WinRK | 3.1.2 | Malcolm Taylor | Y | f + PPMD+ PPMZ + ROLZ + CM | http://www.msoftware.co.nz |
| WinZip | 12.0 | WinZip Computing | Y | LZH + LZW + SF + Huff + PPMd | http://www.winzip.com/ |
| WRT | 4.6 | Przemyslaw Skibinski | N | http://www.ii.uni.wroc.pl/~inikep/ | |
| YBS | 0.03f | Vadim Yoockin | N | f + BWT + DC + ARI | http://www.compression.ru/ybs/ |
| ZPAQ | 1.00 | Matt Mahoney | N | CM | http://www.cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/ |
| ZZIP | 0.36c | Damien Debin | N | f + BWT | http://debin.net/zzip/ |
¹ = External / third party GUI only
f = Program uses filters, (external) dictionaries and/or file preprocessing.
AC = Associative Coding
ARI = Arithmetic Coding
BWT = Burrows-Wheeler Transform
CM = Context Modeling
CTW = Context Tree Weighting
DC = Distance Coding
DM = Dynamic Markov Modeling
DMC = Dynamic Markov Coding
Huff = Huffman
LZ = Lempel-Ziv compression
LZW = Lempel-Ziv-Welch compression
PPM = Prediction by Partial Match
SF = Shannon-Fano
SR = Symbol Ranking
NOTE: All programs are tested (by me) on PC's running windows only. Believe it or not, but data compression is one of those application types where all research takes place on Windows (in stead of e.g. Linux). The last couple of years there were some major breakthroughs in compression caused by first PPM(d) and later the Context Modeling algorithms (PAQ). Unix based programs like gzip, bzip2 are tested here too, so it should be easy to compare results.
NOTE: Most programs listed here are command line compression programs (which have to be run from the "MS-DOS prompt". Some basic knowledge of the windows command line interface might be needed.
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