xevrion/hatchzip

HatchZip is a free, open-source archive extractor for Windows, macOS and Linux that extracts ZIP, 7z, RAR, tar and split archives in place, so it needs free space for the extracted files only. Desktop app and CLI.

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HatchZip Extract huge archives in place. The archive shrinks as your files hatch, so you only need free space for the output, not for the output and the archive. hatchzip.dev | Installation | Usage | Safety | How it works | Contributing HatchZip is a free, open-source archive extractor for Windows, macOS and Linux, with a desktop app and a command line tool. It extracts ZIP, 7z, RAR, tar and split archives in place, for when there is not enough disk space to extract an archive next to itself, such as a large game download on a nearly full disk. Download it from hatchzip.dev. A 180 GB game download that unpacks to 200 GB needs 380 GB of disk with WinRAR, 7-Zip or unzip, because the archive and everything extracted from it have to exist at the same time. HatchZip needs a little over 200 GB. It extracts the archive…

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Owner: xevrion
Primary language: Rust
Stars: 2,367
Forks: 78
Open issues + pull requests: 15
License: Apache-2.0
Archived: No
Default branch: main
Created: 2026-10-21T17:29:28.000Z
Last push: 2026-10-30T08:53:00.000Z

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Owner-supplied topics: 7z, 7zip, archive, archive-extractor, cli, crash-safe, disk-space, extract, extractor, gui, in-place, linux, macos, rar, rust, tar, unrar, unzip, windows, zip

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