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Welcome to your one-stop file manager for local and cloud files
Boost productivity, simplify file sharing, and keep information private.
Unzip
Open all major compression formats, including Zip, Zipx, RAR, 7z, TAR, GZIP, VHD, XZ, POSIX TAR and more.
Encrypt
Encrypt files as you zip to secure information and data. Create read-only PDFs and add watermarks to deter copying.
Manage
Find, open, edit, move, and share your files, whether they are on your computer, network, or cloud service.
Share
Share large files by email, cloud services, social media, and instant messaging.
Meet the latest that WinZip has to offer
Get seamless email protection, schedule folder backups, and enjoy a more modern experience.
With our new simplified navigation ribbon, users can now easily toggle between a simplified and advanced interface, tailoring the WinZip experience to individual needs. The simplified ribbon grants quick access to commonly used features, maintaining a clean and clutter-free UI, while the advanced ribbon ensures access to the full suite of WinZip features, providing familiarity, and flexibility. Enjoy enhanced productivity with the ability to unzip multiple files simultaneously within WinZip. Save time and effort by extracting files directly to your desired locations, simplifying your workflow. Experience greater efficiency with our enhanced Duplicate File Finder. Now, filter files based on size before removing duplicates, allowing for better organization and prioritization of your files to optimize your storage space. With WinZip Image Manager, converting and saving image files as PDFs is now a breeze. Now, the number of steps needed to handle your image files has been reduced, making it easier to manage and share your visuals. Expanding upon the fresh, modern aesthetic of WinZip Courier, this latest update further enhances the user experience by offering enhanced control over Courier's settings. It streamlines the process of securely transferring files via email, ensuring a smoother, and more efficient workflow. For individuals and organizations dealing with sensitive data, Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) provides increased file transfer security. It is fully compliant with industry standards and regulations, bolstering data protection through robust encryption during transit. This ensures the confidentiality and integrity of transferred files, creating a safe and compliant file transfer environment for entities with stringent data security protocols.
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Features fueling your workflow
From extensive file format compatibility to seamless cloud integration, WinZip is packed with all the tools and features you need to work with complete protection and accelerated productivity.
With efficient file compression and duplicate file detection, you can store, open, zip, encrypt, and share multiple files and large files quickly and easily. The power of WinZip effortlessly keeps your computer organized and simplifies time consuming tasks. Your time is valuable, spend it on what matters most. Access, organize, and manage your files on your computer, network, or cloud service. WinZip’s all-in-one solution provides tools designed to remove and prevent clutter, speed up time consuming tasks, and avoid the hassle of using multiple apps. Personal data, passwords, and sensitive information is valuable and storing it on your computer can be worrisome. WinZip ensures safety and peace of mind with easy-to-use encryption capabilities to secure information and data. Encrypt as you zip, create read-only PDFs and add watermarks to deter copying. Compatible with all major formats to open, view, zip, or share, Share large files anywhere by email, cloud services, social media, and instant messaging. Quickly share links to your cloud files. Automated background tools are a quick and convenient way to enhance productivity and safeguard your computer. Set auto clean and organize actions and schedule backup routines to keep files safe and organized without the manual work.
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WinZip Pro Apps
Experience productivity beyond compression with exclusive Pro apps at your fingertips.
(Standard, Pro and Enterprise) A modernized sharing experience. Share your files with confidence and security in an intuitive environment built with simplicity in mind. This powerful sharing tool allows you to share, compress, and encrypt, all within a simple interface. Easily share files to one or many locations, surrounded by extra layers of security, including military-grade encryption and time bomb capabilities. (Standard, Pro and Enterprise) Save valuable time and space on your computer with the all-new deduplication utility, now as a desktop app. Duplicate files often go unnoticed and manually identifying duplicates can be time consuming and complex. WinZip offers a quick and effortless solution complete with presets and automation options and customizable detection and verification notifications for added security. With the introduction of the new home screen, customers can now explore a more extensive range of apps beyond compression, gain easy access to a new ideas portal, and tour the self-serve knowledge base. Additionally, new product information and updates are always readily available for customers to stay informed and up to date. (Pro/Enterprise) Far more than your basic PDF reader, now with improved performance and usability. Multipurpose capabilities include exporting a PDF to Word, image file, or creating a PDF from any document. Reorder, add or delete pages and easily combine multiple documents into a single PDF. Add a custom watermark, secure and share anywhere. (Pro/Enterprise) Now with improved performance and usability. Organize, share, and confidently secure all your pictures in one dedicated app. Easily convert formats, rotate, resize, and crop for single or multiple images. Increased security lets you remove camera information, EXIF data, including GPS location, along with lossless compression and bank-grade encryption.
Auto clean and organize your computer
What could be better than automated cleaning? Thanks to this efficient feature, you no longer need to click to take action; it simply happens. With our proven WinZip Background tools, you set the rules to remove old files which will save space, retain speed, and secure your files.
Files Shared to Me folder
All of your files in one place! Welcome to a streamlined process that lets you instantly find all the files others have shared with you. WinZip supports multi-cloud, so you can access Google Drive, OneDrive and many other cloud-based storage files from coworkers, friends and family in a single app.
Batch conversion capabilities
With this flexible option, you can perform a variety of conversion tasks simultaneously including converting a file to or from a PDF, combining files into a single PDF, converting or reducing photos, signing a PDF, or adding a watermark. Simply select the files you want to change, then choose the appropriate conversion options you want to apply, and you’re done!
Seamlessly switch between Windows Explorer and WinZip
You have options! Right click on a folder to open a file in either WinZip or Windows Explorer. With a single click from Explorer, switch to WinZip and get direct access to WinZip’s advanced file management tools like bulk file rename, conversion, and encryption.
Quick access to recent contacts
Get to your most-used contacts faster and more efficiently. WinZip now offers an option for a quick selection from your contacts list of recently emailed recipients. No need to spend time searching your entire address book!
Personal Cloud NAS drive support
Connect WinZip to Western Digital My Cloud Service and access your files on your personal cloud, no matter where you are. Just like Cloud Services, such as OneDrive or Dropbox, you can use WinZip to browse and manage the files at home from anywhere using your personal WD My Cloud.
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| Manage | WinZip Standard | WinZip Pro | Enterprise |
| Modern home screen: Discover new product features, explore productivity tools, submit ideas via the ideas portal, use the online self-serve knowledge base, and update WinZip with a single click | |||
| Optional in-app ratings and surveys for users to rate experience and usability of WinZip | |||
| WinZip Image Manager | |||
| WinZip PDF Express | |||
| Batch conversion capabilities | |||
| Files Shared to Me folder | |||
| Support for Windows Environmental Strings | |||
| Seamlessly switch between Windows Explorer and WinZip | |||
| Quick access to recent contacts | |||
| Streamlined Actions Pane | |||
| New ribbon look-and-feel with context-aware file management tools | |||
| Combine files into a single PDF | |||
| WinZip Security tools on Windows Explorer menu | |||
| Access and edit files shared with you by others | |||
| Easy access to Background Tools | |||
| Seamless integration with Microsoft Teams | |||
| Organize your photos in the cloud | |||
| Find files faster with the built-in search feature. | |||
| Pin and access favorite files in the Quick Access section of the Files Pane. | |||
| Perform shell extension operations without leaving the WinZip Files Pane. | |||
| Use built-in cleaning tools to de-clutter your folders. | |||
| Create and manage WinZip Jobs directly from the Explorer Context menu. | |||
| Set specific files to be "ignored" during routine cleaning scans. | |||
| Create, configure, manage, schedule and run custom cleaning tools. | |||
| Use admin controls to set user permissions for Background Tools. | |||
| Set Expiration Dates for Files and Folders | |||
| Option to view password entry | |||
| View Date taken and Date Modified | |||
| Rename multiple files at once | |||
| Slide to Hide Files and Action Panes | |||
| Set Expiration Dates for Zip files and Log files | |||
| Expand the Preview Pane | |||
| Support Amazon S3/AWS regions | |||
| Schedule File and Folder Clean Up using Background Tools | |||
| Manage Files with WinZip’s built-in File Management | |||
| Quickly and easily reduce image file size by converting images from one format to another | |||
| Use WinZip Express to easily place a cloud link for any file onto the clipboard where it may be pasted into other apps for sharing | |||
| Manage your WinZip contact list; choose to not add one-time recipients and manually entered contacts | |||
| Buttons for disabled features are hidden avoiding confusion. | |||
| Use the Classic interface - which hides the Files and Actions panes - allowing you to focus only on compression functionality. | |||
| Add or move files from Explorer into a Zip file more easily with a new Move button alongside the Add button | |||
| Open, view and manage different folders at the same time using the Files Pane Tabs instead of using multiple Windows Explorer windows | |||
| Navigate through various folders using the Folder Trees option in the Files Pane | |||
| Expand or revert the Files Pane by swiping | |||
| Add a Network location from another domain | |||
| Click the Image Information button in the Preview Pane to review image details, including dimensions, file size, pixels and more | |||
| Quickly access your frequently used local, network, and cloud folders in Frequent Folders | |||
| Create folders on your PC, network or cloud service from WinZip | |||
| Securely delete files and folders with the new Wipe feature | |||
| Restore accidentally deleted, copied, moved or renamed files | |||
| Open a file from the cloud in the correct application, or in an alternate application | |||
| Open and edit a file in the default application or an alternate one | |||
| View property info for files and folders | |||
| Map a folder or network location to a drive | |||
| Copy, move, delete and multi-file rename files | |||
| Copy a path to the clipboard | |||
| Copy a cloud link to the clipboard | |||
| View thumbnail previews of a selected file, whether it is in your zip, on your PC, network or cloud service (if the cloud service supports thumbnails) | |||
| Preview the contents of images and documents, rotate and resize images, save an image as a background and share previewed files by email, IM or social media | |||
| Scroll through files in the Previewer with the flick of a finger on touch displays | |||
| Quickly access the most-used file management tools with the new Manage Files button | |||
| Choose new Table view to optimize your display for mouse/keyboard or select Icon view to optimize for touchscreens | |||
| Pin your favorite folders to the top level in the Files Pane or super picker for easier access | |||
| Open WinZip Express from the Files Pane for quick zipping and sharing | |||
| View file details with the new Properties feature | |||
| Access cameras and phones attached to your computer via folders | |||
| Easily remove a folder from the Frequent Folders list | |||
| Choose to always show scrollbars when using WinZip on your desktop | |||
| Background tools remind you about unused files in various folders and the recycle bin so you can regain space on your system, securely delete them or zip and move them to a cloud service | |||
| WinZip Express tools support Office 2016 | |||
| Access all your files from your PC, network, Windows HomeGroup and supported cloud services via the Places list | |||
| Includes WinZip Express for Explorer, Office and Photos built-in, and WinZip Express for Outlook as a free download | |||
| Maximize display space on devices with auto-hide scroll bars that disappear when not needed | |||
| Place a file in a zip without leaving a copy on your system with the Move option | |||
| Easily browse and find files in your zip with new Thumbnails | |||
| Customize WinZip more easily with redesigned configurable settings | |||
| Browse all your local, network and cloud files more easily in the Files Pane | |||
| See the right tools for the task with the dynamic, slide-in Actions pane, which changes to display different features depending on your choices | |||
| Easily change the interface to Manage mode when you want to quickly access file management features, and see details like file type, size and date | |||
| Use WinZip on any touch-enabled device or computer | |||
| Use WinZip on new 2-in-1 computers. The display automatically adjusts when you switch between tablet and laptop modes | |||
| Rotate, Resize and View full-size images directly from within a Zip file | |||
| Temporarily extract Zip files using the 'Unzip and Try' feature and delete any files you do not need | |||
| Extract to selectable folder location or current folder location | |||
| Zip only the files you want using Include and Exclude filters | |||
| Use WinZip's Explorer View to display image thumbnails for easy browsing | |||
| Manage which cloud storage, social media and file sharing services employees can access. Enforce AES encryption and password protocols. Turn conversion features on/off as desired. | |||
| Learn how to configure and deploy WinZip Enterprise to support your organization's file sharing needs and policies with the Installation and Configuration Guide. | |||
| Open a Virtual Image file the same way you open a Zip file. View the content and extract files to any location. Supports VHD files, including NTFS compressed files, and VMWare files. | |||
| IT administrators can set protocols to control the movement of information and files based on whether files are defined. | |||
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| Package & Share | WinZip Standard | WinZip Pro | Enterprise |
| WinZip Courier integration | |||
| WinZip SafeShare | |||
| WinZip Share Express | |||
| Set expiration dates for any file on any supported cloud service provider | |||
| Sign new and existing PDF files | |||
| Combine PDF features | |||
| Add comments or annotations to PDF files | |||
| Fill out interactive forms on PDF files | |||
| Add signatures to PDF files | |||
| Combine multiple PDF files into a single PDF file to save, zip, or share. | |||
| Personal Cloud NAS drive support | |||
| Access cloud-based zip files faster with improved Direct Access features. | |||
| Enjoy expanded cloud services, including OpenStack and SwiftStack regions and credential files, Alibaba, Wasabi, HP, Oracle, Azure, WebDAV, CenturyLink, IONOS and OVH cloud providers. | |||
| Automate WinZip Express. | |||
| Share using Windows Charms (Windows 8 only) | |||
| Shorten shared URLs. | |||
| Get a link to My Cloud File. | |||
| Streamline workflow when sharing via Slack IM. | |||
| Keep track of which Zip files you have shared via WinZip or ZipShare | |||
| Manage files shared by WinZip or ZipShare. Open and view, share again or remove shared files | |||
| Add and access up to 16 accounts for each cloud and IM service | |||
| Email anyone directly from WinZip by adding contacts from all your supported sources into one Combined Address Book | |||
| Move selected files to individual zip files for streamlined sharing | |||
| Share individual files or the entire zip with the Send What feature | |||
| Share converted files without having to save them first, WinZip creates a temporary file that is automatically deleted after sharing | |||
| Share to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn | |||
| Scan and share images and documents directly from WinZip | |||
| Support for flatbed scanners let you create a PDF with multiple images without a document feeder | |||
| Share photos directly from your camera with Snap and Share | |||
| WinZip email supports IMAP for Gmail and Outlook (Hotmail) | |||
| WinZip email supports Gmail's two-step authentication process | |||
| Simply click to share links from the cloud by email, IM, social media and the Clipboard | |||
| Select recipients by name as well as by email address in the Combined Address Book | |||
| Share zipped files via instant messaging services, including Office 365 Groups, Twitter, Google Talk/Google+ Hangouts, Yahoo! Messenger and Jabber | |||
| Choose a file from your computer, cloud service or a zip, then choose to share by email, social media or IM, and WinZip does the rest with SmartShare | |||
| Easily share links by Skype and other services with automatic links that are available to paste from the Clipboard | |||
| Share an unzipped image directly from the File Viewer to social media sites | |||
| Use direct access to cloud services, including Box, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, CloudMe, SugarSync and now MediaFire to open zip files saved in the cloud, zip files before you upload or select files from the cloud to zip and share | |||
| Access and manage files in the cloud easily with streamlined cloud navigation, and new options to download, share, move, rename, unzip and delete files or folders. | |||
| Send links to your cloud files by email, instant messaging and social media with Cloud Links | |||
| Directly access the new ZipShare file sharing services from WinZip to connect to your cloud accounts and easily share compressed files by email and social media | |||
| Convert documents to PDF, including read-only PDFs, using WinZip’s built in PDF conversion tool | |||
| Convert images to more convenient sharing sizes automatically when adding them to a Zip file so your high-resolution photos send faster and fit standard computer screens* | |||
| Add custom watermarks to images and PDFs to deter unauthorized copying, add traceability and protect intellectual property. Adjust the transparency and add date/time stamping if desired. | |||
| Zip and email files using the most popular email and webmail systems (WinZip comes configured to work with Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, and Hotmail) or configure WinZip to support additional email services beyond the preset selections | |||
| Create self-extracting archives (.exe files) to send to people that may not own WinZip using the built-in 'Self-Extractor Personal Edition' | |||
| Automatically zip and encrypt email attachments with Courier. Send very large files via connected cloud services. | |||
| Zip and upload files to a company-provided SharePoint site. Select and download files previously uploaded to SharePoint directly from WinZip. Create a Zip and Share drop-down menu in the SharePoint web interface. | |||
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| Backup & Automate | WinZip Standard | WinZip Pro | Enterprise |
| Secure FTP file transfer | |||
| WinZip Duplicate File Finder | |||
| WinZip Secure Backup | |||
| Schedule backups within Windows with a simple right-click | |||
| Auto clean and organize your computer | |||
| Automatically save cloud files | |||
| Specify the Job Name Last. | |||
| Create new jobs from existing jobs. | |||
| Cloud service added. | |||
| Use the Job Wizard to easily backup personal files in a Windows Protected Environment (WIP) without having to manually suppress work files. | |||
| Make sure your computer is secure by having WinZip shut it down after running an automatic backup | |||
| Use the Job Wizard Super Picker to combine files from your computer, network and cloud services in a single backup. Save the resulting Zip to the cloud. | |||
| Now you can drag and drop files from Explorer or the WinZip Files Pane into the job wizard | |||
| Skip steps when defaults and settings do not require changes with automatic backup creation and editing | |||
| Backup your documents, email, desktop, favorites, pictures, libraries, etc. with just a click, using one of the predefined backups on the 'Backup' tab | |||
| Create custom backups for selected files or folders or define custom WinZip jobs to automate routine zipping tasks | |||
| Backup photos directly from your digital camera | |||
| Burn backups directly to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc (automatically split them over multiple discs if necessary) | |||
| Email backups automatically from virtually any of your email addresses or upload backups to an off-site server using WinZip’s internal FTP client | |||
| Backup to any connected cloud account, desktop folder or between cloud accounts | |||
| Send notifications by social media and instant messaging when automated jobs have completed using the updated Job Wizard | |||
| Use the 'WinZip Command Line Support Add-On' for scripting (free add-on) | |||
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| Encrypt/Decrypt | WinZip Standard | WinZip Pro | Enterprise |
| Update contents of a Zip file to match the source | |||
| Drag and Drop ‘Add to Zip’ in WinZip’s Files Pane. | |||
| Direct Access Technology for faster display and unzipping. | |||
| Perform File Conversions before Zipping. | |||
| Easily remove personal data (EXIF) from various files so that when they are shared, your information is not included | |||
| Quickly recover encrypted files left by past employees or during forensic audits. | |||
| Easily encrypt an existing Zip file with a click of a button on the Tools ribbon | |||
| Update a Zip file, which contains encrypted files, with an automatically-encrypted replacement | |||
| Encrypted files within a Zip file cannot be deleted without knowing the password | |||
| Apply encryption and conversion options, including PDF conversion, watermarking and photo resizing, before, during or after creating your zip | |||
| Apply separate conversion options to individual files in your zip | |||
| Take advantage of hardware support in certain Intel-based computers for even faster AES encryption | |||
| Check 'Encrypt' to password protect your files using banking-level encryption and keep them completely secure | |||
| Secure sensitive data with strong, FIPS-197 certified AES encryption (128- and 256-bit) | |||
| FIPS 140-2 encryption, both at rest and during exchange on a properly configured computer. Set to FIPS 140-2 compliance, even if Windows OS is not in FIPS 140-2 mode. | |||
| Auto-wipe ('shred') temporarily extracted copies of encrypted files using the U.S. Department of Defense standard (DoD 5220.22-M) to prevent misuse | |||
| Establish your own password policy by defining complexity requirements | |||
| Encrypt and decrypt confidential files and email attachments | |||
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| Compress/Decompress | WinZip Standard | WinZip Pro | Enterprise |
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| Scan Zip files for viruses or malware | |||
| More filter options for zipping files | |||
| More efficient file compression with duplicate file detection | |||
| Compress smaller Zipx files faster. | |||
| Switch between Zip and Zipx file creation with a simple Ribbon toggle. | |||
| Choose to save as Zip or Zipx when saving files. | |||
| Drag and Drop ‘Add to Zip’ in WinZip’s Files Pane. | |||
| Direct Access Technology for faster display and unzipping. | |||
| Quickly unzip to the folder displayed in the WinZip Files Pane with the click of a button. | |||
| Convenient prompts simplify unzipping Zip files from Explorer, the WinZip Files Pane, and the WinZip Ribbon or File menu to your choice of folders | |||
| Open and unzip POSIX TAR files | |||
| Enjoy up to 50% faster start-up performance | |||
| Unzip and replace a group of Zip files with their content | |||
| Create a split Zip file from Explorer for hassle-free sharing of large files | |||
| Open more file types as a Zip, including DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, XPS, ODT, ODS, ODP, ODG,WMZ, WSZ, YFS, XPI, XAP, CRX, EPUB, and C4Z | |||
| Use the super picker to unzip locally or to the cloud | |||
| Get up to speed quickly with the Interactive Welcome Screen | |||
| Compress MP3 files by 15 - 20 % on average | |||
| Zip and unzip files instantly with 64-bit, best-in-class software | |||
| Open and extract Zipx, RAR, 7Z, LHA, BZ2, IMG, ISO and all other major compression file formats | |||
| Open CAB, Zip and Zip 2.0 Methods | |||
| Convert other major compressed file formats to Zip format | |||
| Apply 'Best Compression' method to maximize efficiency automatically based on file type | |||
| Reduce JPEG image files by 20 - 25% with no loss of photo quality or data integrity | |||
| Compress using BZip2, LZMA, PPMD and Enhanced Deflate methods | |||
| Compress using Zip 2.0 compatible methods | |||
| 'Auto Open' a zipped Microsoft Office file by simply double-clicking the Zip file icon | |||
| Employ advanced 'Unzip and Try' functionality to review interrelated components contained within a Zip file (such as an HTML page and its associated graphics). | |||
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*Requires Microsoft Windows 11, Windows 10
Frequently asked questions
How do I activate WinZip?
Activating WinZip is quick and easy in just 4 simple steps. Watch our step-by-step tutorial on how to activate WinZip.
Built for Microsoft Windows
Seamlessly integrated with native experience
OS Compatibility
Windows 11 and 10
64-bit
Minimum Processor
- 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor
Minimum Memory
- 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit
Disk Space
- 235 MB
Additional Specs
- .NET version 4.6
- Minimum web browser version: Microsoft Edge
- Minimum graphics hardware/software: DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
- Minimum display Resolution: 800 x 600
- An active internet connection is required for single-user licenses.
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Follow 3 easy steps to install WinZip
Click downloaded file
winzip.exe
Click “Yes” to allow installation
Follow setup instructions to finish installation
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