Zipora

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