BulkZip

BulkZip
BulkZip File Compressor
Developer(s)	Northstone Consulting Ltd.
Initial release	1 January 2015 (2015-01-01)
Written in	C#
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Size	6.2 MB
Available in	10 languages
Type	File archiver
License	Commercial, 21 days trial
Website	www.bulkzip.com

BulkZip is a commercial file archiver and compressor utility for Windows.
Developed by Northstone Consulting Ltd., a Stuttgart IT, process and management consultancy, BulkZip emerged out of the now discontinued xRar file extractor.

Benchmarks

BulkZip supports compression with numerous algorithms from the 2010+ era. As of mid-2015, BulkZip placed first in 4 independent large-scale benchmarks which were testing multiple speed/results relations, as well as a maximum possible compression ratio.^[1]

Formats

By default, BulkZip creates .bulk archives, the programs proprietary format, but also supports compression and extraction of a number of other archive formats. The .bulk file format is based upon LZMA2, PPMd and DEFLATE algorithms.

Compression: .bulk, Zip, 7z, Nz, ZPAQ, FreeArc, packARC, Tar
Extraction: .bulk, 7z, Ace, Arc, Arj, Bz2, Ear, Cab, Chm, Cramfs, Dmg, Gz, Img, Iso, Jar, Lha, Lzh, Lzma, Nz, Pja, Rar, Rar5, Tar, Tbz, Tgz, Txz, Uha, Uue, War,Wim, Xz, Z, Zip, Zipx, Zpaq

Extraction support since Version 7.1 : The latest RAR5 file format.
Extraction support since Version 7.3 : Uha , Zipx, Uue, Lzma and Pja
Extraction support since Version 7.5 : CramFS, Chm, Dmg, War, Ear Extraction support since Version 7.5.x : Apk, Ipa, Cb7, Cba, Cbr, Cbt, Cbz

Features

Encryption: AES-128, AES-256
Multivolume Archives (.z00, z01, z02…etc.)
Self-Extracting Archives (SFX)
Checksum: CRC32, MD-5, SHA-1, SHA-256, RIPEMD-160
Right-Click-Context Menu Integration
Compression Prognosis
Convert Archives
Archive Report
Archive Integrity Check
Password Strength Analyzer
Drag and Drop
Wizard Dialog
Auto Update
File Format Library
Multi-Language: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic
Works with Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP

References

↑ http://www.bulkzip.com/en/benchmarks/

External links

Data compression software

Archivers with
compression
(comparison)

Free software	7-Zip Archive Manager Ark Expander FreeArc Info-ZIP KGB Archiver PAQ PeaZip The Unarchiver (decompression only) tar Xarchiver Zipeg ZPAQ

Freeware	Filzip LHA StuffIt Expander (decompression only) TUGZip ZipGenius

Commercial	ARC ALZip Archive Utility ARJ BetterZip BulkZip JAR MacBinary PKZIP/SecureZIP PowerArchiver StuffIt WinAce WinRAR WinZip

Non-archiving
compressors

Generic	bzip2 compress gzip lzip lzop pack rzip Snappy XZ Utils

For code	UPX

Audio
compression
(comparison)

Lossy	Fraunhofer FDK AAC Nero AAC Codec Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) Helix DNA Producer l3enc LAME TooLAME libavcodec libcelt libopus libspeex Musepack libvorbis Windows Media Encoder

Lossless	ALAC FLAC libavcodec Monkey's Audio mp4als OptimFROG Shorten TTA (True Audio) WavPack

Video
compression
(comparison)

Lossy

MPEG-4 ASP	3ivx DivX Nero Digital FFmpeg HDX4 Xvid

H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC	CoreAVC Blu-code DivX FFmpeg Nero Digital OpenH264 QuickTime x264

HEVC	DivX x265

Others	CineForm Cinepak Daala DNxHD Helix DNA Producer Indeo libavcodec Schrödinger (Dirac) SBC Sorenson VP7 libtheora libvpx Windows Media Encoder

Lossless

See also: compression methods and compression formats

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