| Format introduction | 7z is a compressed archive file format that supports several different data compression, encryption and pre-processing algorithms. The 7z format initially appeared as implemented by the 7-Zip archiver. The 7-Zip program is publicly available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. |
| Technical details | The main features of 7z format: Open architecture, High compression ratio, Strong AES-256 encryption, Ability of using any compression, conversion or encryption method, Supporting files with sizes up to 16000000000 GB, Unicode file names, Solid compressing, Archive headers compressing. |
| File extension | .7z |
| MIME | application/x-7z-compressed |
| Developed by | Igor Pavlov |
| Type of format | Data compression |
| Associated programs | 7-Zip |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z |
| 7Z to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| 7Z to ZIP | convert from archive to archive |
| XZ to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| BZIP2 to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| GZIP to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| TAR to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| ZIP to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| WIM to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| AR to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| ARJ to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| CAB to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| CPIO to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| CramFS to 7Z | convert from to archive |
| DMG to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| EXT to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| FAT to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| GPT to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| HFS to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| IHEX to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| ISO to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| LZH to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| LZMA to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| MBR to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| MSI to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| NSIS to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| NTFS to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| QCOW2 to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| RAR to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| RPM to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| SquashFS to 7Z | convert from to archive |
| UDF to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| UEFI to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| VDI to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| VHD to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| VMDK to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| XAR to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |
| Z to 7Z | convert from archive to archive |