Ziplark extracts ZIP, RAR (incl. RAR5 and encrypted), 7z, tar, the compressed-tar variants (tar.gz/.bz2/.xz/.zst/.lz4), single-stream gz/bz2/xz/zst/lz4, and ISO 9660 / Joliet disc images. It creates ZIP (AES-256), 7z (AES-256) and tar archives.
One small Rust engine drives three front-ends over the exact same code: a desktop app, the ziplark command-line tool, and an MCP server so an LLM or agent can list, extract, test and create archives itself.
Every extraction path is funnelled through a single zip-slip guard, so no entry can escape the destination directory. Free and open source (MIT), no ads, no telemetry.
What's new in 0.2.2
Fixed: the Windows binaries now run on a clean install. Builds through 0.2.1 imported VCRUNTIME140.dll and MSVCP140.dll, which are part of the Visual C++ redistributable rather than Windows, so the app failed to start with STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND on a machine without it. The MSVC runtime is now statically linked and the installer embeds the WebView2 bootstrapper instead of downloading it during setup.
Yes. Ziplark is free and open-source software released under the MIT license.
What is the latest version of Ziplark?
The latest version is 0.2.2, released on Aug 27, 2026.
Is it safe to download Ziplark?
The download button links to the official installer published on github.com, the same file Windows Package Manager installs. You can verify the downloaded file by comparing its SHA-256 checksum with 05a447d04c9cc234e9d72e1e795d4ed5f626e8831db8d20ed3ab8d5b799a4bc5.
Which Windows versions does Ziplark support?
Ziplark runs on Windows and is available for 64-bit (x64) systems.
How do I install Ziplark silently?
Run the offline installer with "Ziplark_0.2.2_x64-setup.exe" /S, or install it with Windows Package Manager: winget install --id=zhitongblog.Ziplark -e --silent.
How do I uninstall Ziplark?
Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Ziplark and select Uninstall. From the command line, run winget uninstall --id=zhitongblog.Ziplark -e.
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