Free & open source · GPL-3.0

Every archive.
One small app.

Ziplark extracts ZIP, RAR, 7z and tar, and creates ZIP (AES-256), 7z and tar — from a 1.4 MB binary. One Rust engine, three ways to drive it: a desktop app, a command-line tool, and an MCP server.

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Universal macOS build is notarized · Windows & Linux installers included

~1.4 MBengine + CLI

3 OSesmacOS · Windows · Linux

0 trackersno telemetry, ever

Notarizedsigned macOS app

Why Ziplark

🪶

Small & fast

Size-optimized release build — LTO, stripped, panic=abort. The desktop app uses the OS webview, so there's no bundled Chromium.

🛡️

Safe by design

Every extraction path funnels through a single zip-slip guard. No entry can ever escape the destination folder — not from a crafted ZIP, RAR or tar.

⚙️

One engine, three ways

The GUI, CLI and MCP server are thin shells over one Rust core. Whatever the app does, the CLI does identically — and scripts can too.

📦

Every common format

ZIP, RAR (incl. RAR5 & encrypted), 7z, tar and the compressed-tar variants — plus single-stream gz/bz2/xz/zst.

Format support

Format	Extract	Create	Encryption
ZIP	✓	✓	AES-256 (reads ZipCrypto)
7z	✓	✓	AES-256
RAR / RAR5	✓	—	reads encrypted
tar	✓	✓	—
tar.gz / .bz2 / .xz / .zst	✓	✓	—
gz / bz2 / xz / zst (single stream)	✓	✓	—

RAR creation is intentionally unsupported — the RAR compression format is proprietary. Extraction (including RAR5 and encrypted archives) works fully.

Built for terminals and agents too

CLI — `ziplark`

List, extract, create and verify any archive. --json on every command for scripting.

ziplark list  movie.rar
ziplark extract photos.zip -o ./out
ziplark create backup.tar.zst ./src --level best
ziplark create secret.zip ./private --password hunter2
ziplark test  download.7z

MCP server — `ziplark-mcp`

Drive Ziplark from any LLM over the Model Context Protocol. Read tools are always on; writes are gated behind --allow-write.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ziplark": {
      "command": "ziplark-mcp",
      "args": ["--allow-write"]
    }
  }
}

Download

Version 0.1.0 · free forever · all releases & checksums

macOS

Universal · Apple Silicon & Intel · notarized

Download .dmg

CLI only: arm64 · x64

Windows

x64 · installer

Download .msi

.exe setup · CLI .zip

Linux

x64 · Debian/Ubuntu & AppImage

Download AppImage

.deb · CLI .tar.gz

Or build from source: cargo build --release. The desktop app builds with cargo tauri build.

Every archive.One small app.