ZipGenius Editor's Review

Create more space on your cluttered hard drive with this powerful and free archiving tool.

Data is clogging your hard drive. All of the applications that you use rely not only on data, but on metadata (information about the data on your drive) to provide you with the full experience you expect from your software. While large hard drives are becoming more affordable, purchasing additional storage isn't always the answer.  This is why I like ZipGenius. It’s a file archive application for Windows, and it’s a freebie to boot.

ZipGenius handles more than 20 compressed archive types, allowing you to view and retrieve data from just about any and every archive file that you may come across or have sent to you.  The application's layout is logical and implements wizards and shortcuts to make things easier on novice users.  However, it's still powerful enough for more advanced users. ZipGenius guides you every step of the way. Its clean and simply user interface is designed to offer maximum performance to everyone.

Pro’s: Multi-language support, Free, easy to use

Con’s: Themes in paid version eat away at resources

Conclusion: ZipGenius Standard is a great application, giving you the exact same capabilities of other, pay archive applications, in a clean, easy to use interface.  ZipGenius Suite offers the same features of ZipGenius Standard, but also offer's additional themes, as well as integration with ZGAlbum, Cutter 4.5, and FTPGenius. If you don’t need or want the noted integration, ZipGenius is the better application to get.  The additional applications and themes not only place additional resource requirements on your system, but didn't completely strike me as in-scope add-ons or additions.