garbo

garbo

garbo is a minimalistic macOS app to view archives: zip, tar, bzip2, xz, and others.

garbo uses the mholt/archiver library for archive file handling.

garbo uses the fyne.io cross-platform UI toolkit for its GUI.

garbo is still in early stages of development. Please create a new issue or send a pull request to help improve it!

The scope of this project is kept deliberately narrow:

• browsing of existing archives
  • open an archive from the macOS Finder or Terminal
• extracting of single or multiple files from an archive
  • no focus on creating archives or added / changing / removing files from existing archives
• macOS as the only targeted platform
  • no focus on Windows, Linux, or mobile platforms

The name garbo may or may not be derived from Go ARchive BrOwser.

Screenshots

Alternative Projects

7-Zip does not have a macOS GUI application.

keka does not have an "archive browser" interface, only extraction capabilities.

BetterZip is a great GUI, but not open source or free software.

Build

fyne package -name garbo -os darwin

Contributing

garbo welcomes contributions from anyone! Unlike many other projects we are happy to accept cosmetic contributions and small contributions, in addition to large feature requests and changes.

License

garbo is made available under the MIT License. For more details, see the LICENSE file in the repository.

The included application icon is from https://publicdomainvectors.org/en/free-clipart/History-icon/45339.html via https://openclipart.org/detail/248168/history-icon by "thewizardplusplus" under Public Domain license.

Authors

garbo was created by Thomas Kriechbaumer, and is maintained by the community.