🗳️ Smart Archive

Smart Archive turns your Finder into a powerful, intelligent archiving tool.
With a single click, it automatically decides whether to compress or extract — no menus, no confusion, no clutter.

Built for speed, reliability, and clean results, Smart Archive is the archiving tool macOS should have shipped with.

• Automatically extracts archives
• Automatically compresses files & folders
• No mode selection — Smart Archive decides for you
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• Supports ZIP, 7Z, RAR, TAR, TGZ, ISO, DM
• Works with files and folders
• Auto-renames archives if a file already exists
  (Archive → Archive 2 → Archive 3…) 
• Optional password protection
• Clean archive structure (no /Users/username/... paths)
• ISO & DMG safely created from folders only
• Progress notifications while compressing
   

• Supports ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, TGZ, ISO, DMG
• Uses The Unarchiver CLI (unar)
• Creates a folder only when needed
• Prevents double-folder issues
• Automatically removes __MACOSX
• Prompts for password only if required
• Opens extracted files automatically
• Moves archives to Trash after extraction
   

• Runs as a Finder Quick Action
• No Dock icon
• No menu bar app
• No background processes
• Works on Intel & Apple Silicon Macs
• Optimized Homebrew path detection
   

Smart Archive avoids common macOS archive problems:

• ❌ No overwrite accidents
• ❌ No read-only filesystem errors
• ❌ No broken RAR archives
• ❌ No duplicate folder 
• ❌ No Finder alias crashes
   

Everything is handled automatically and safely.

• 🎥 Video editors
• 📸 Photographers
• 🎨 Designers
• 🧑‍💻 Developers
• 🗂️ Power users
• 📦 Anyone who works with archives daily
   

Because archiving should be:

• Simple
• Predictable
• Powerful
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🗳️ Smart Archive delivers professional-grade archiving — directly inside Finder.

• macOS (Intel & Apple Silicon)
• Homebrew (auto-detected)
• WinRAR CLI auto-installed for RAR compression
• Unarchiver CLI auto-installed for extraction