Software · Compression & archives

File Roller

Open, modify and create compressed archive files.

Completely free
macOS and Linux
Open source

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Flathub
License: GPL-2.0+ — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by Flathub
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Flathub, Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms)
Account required: not documented
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Flathub
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: not documented
Platforms: macOS and LinuxEstablished by Linux: Flathub · macOS: Wikidata
Publisher: Paolo Bacchilega
Latest version: 44.7 (22 June 2026)
Latest activity: 26 June 2026
Source code: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller

Overview

File Roller is an archive manager, available on macOS and Linux.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment (former File Roller).” — Wikidata, 10 November 2026

At a glance

File Roller is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-2.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

File Roller is a GNOME application for opening, creating, and modifying archive and compressed archive files. File Roller supports a wide range of different archive files, including: gzip archives (.tar.gz, .tgz) bzip archives (.tar.bz, .tbz) zip archives (.zip) xz archives (.tar.xz)

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 9 November 2026
Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) — 6 November 2026
Facts collected from LicitPro automatic classification () — 6 November 2026
Facts collected from Wikidata (platforms) — 5 November 2026
Last technical check: 5 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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