Zipgeist is a MacOS app that allows users to open zip, rar and various other files in Finder without having to wait or unpack files. Ever since I switched from Windows to Mac 15 years ago I’ve always found it annoying that there wasn’t a way to just properly browse archives in Finder, like you can in File Explorer. Opening an archive is extremely fast, expecially in comparison to extracting. That being said, we also offer the ability to extract various file types (faster than Keka, The Unarchiver, Archive Utility etc..).

Since we use FSKit, MacOS 26 (Tahoe) or higher is a requirement. We have a free version that includes 1 week trial of Pro, after 1 week, you can only open archive files under 1GB and cannot edit archives in Finder.

I would love to hear product & website feedback.