Download CozyZip

Version 1.0.4macOS 26 or later · Apple Silicon

Personal: free with verified email. Commercial: US$5 once per person. Lifetime on up to three Macs.

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SHA-256 for CozyZip 1.0.4, build 6:

183f8eb87c7a75a2844afee28a2a10673ccb93d6a3edc365160ad1cbb55cba0a

Choose your licence, then activate in Settings

The download is the same for everyone. Inspection is available without a licence; creating and extracting archives requires a personal or commercial licence. Open CozyZip → Settings → Licence and paste your key.

Personal use is free with a verified email. Commercial use is US$5 once per person. Both cover up to three Macs and include future CozyZip updates.

View pricing and get a licence · Recover an existing key

Use CozyZip from Terminal or your AI tools

The app includes a command-line tool and a local MCP server. Follow the dedicated guide or give its setup prompt to your AI assistant.

Read the setup guide · Markdown for AI assistants

How to install

Download the DMG.
Open it and drag CozyZip to Applications.
Open CozyZip from Applications.
Get a personal or commercial licence from the pricing page.
Paste your full key into CozyZip → Settings → Licence before creating or extracting archives.

What's new

1.0.4 Reliable archive access

Fix an issue that could prevent reviewing a newly selected archive on macOS.
Keep the selected archive available while reviewing and extracting, including after reopening it from Recent archives.

1.0.3 Terminal licensing and direct-download updates

Activate a licence and check its status from Terminal without opening the app
Private key input through a hidden prompt, standard input, a private file or a named environment variable
User-scoped activation for managed deployments; each licence remains per person on up to three Macs
Developer ID distribution export signs all bundled updater components

1.0.2 Lifetime licences and safer archive handling

Personal and commercial lifetime licence activation in Settings
Licence checks for archive creation and extraction in the app, Terminal and MCP
Improved handling of unsafe paths, links and archive-format detection
Bundled CLI and MCP version reporting matches the app

1.0.0 Initial release

Preview archive contents before extracting
Safety Check for scripts, executables and unsafe paths
Staged extraction
Create ZIP, 7z and TAR.GZ archives with optional AES-256 encryption
Finder extension and drag and drop

Open source

CozyZip includes these open source components. The 7-Zip, lz4 and lzip programs are bundled unmodified and run as separate helper tools. Full licence texts are in the app under Settings → Licenses.

7-Zip 26.00
Opens and creates most archive formats · LGPL-2.1-or-later, with the unRAR restriction

Source
lz4 1.10.0
LZ4 files · GPL-2.0-or-later

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lzip 1.26
LZIP files · GPL-2.0-or-later

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Brotli 1.2.0
Brotli files · MIT

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snzip 1.0.5
Snappy files · BSD-2-Clause

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Snappy 1.2.2
Snappy compression library · BSD-3-Clause

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ZIPFoundation 0.9.20
ZIP reading · MIT

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Questions or trouble installing? Email support@cozymacapps.com, or go back to CozyZip.