Keka App Reviews

Keka is available for free from the site, but buying it here in the App Store will help you show the developer your appreciation for creating what is the easiest to use and best designed archive management application for Mac OS X. It lets you work with all of the modern archive types, and does so more elegantly than any of the other applications Ive had a chance to try.

I like it, and recommend this to others who reularly use a variety of archive types and dont want to have to deal with the command line. However, be aware of the limitations. The automation means that creating single use cases or tweaking 7zip or RAR archives is very limited, and Ive occassionally had issues creating basic zip files, but Keka is an attractive package.

A great archiver, thanks to developers for their efforts. However, recent changes icons do not really like, old ones were much better. Bring back the next version of it back please.

I had an issue opening an ISO (which never happened before) so I hit up the app store to see if there was a solution, lo and behold Keka popped up. I quickly looked over the features this nifty app has and quickly realized I NEEDED this in my toolbox. Needless to say, Keka unzipped the ISO for me without a hitch. I recommend this to anyone who works with ISOs!

This is the best suit of all compress formats! this awesome app also joint a zip file that was split. Works great with the password blocked files! only needs to support Mountain Lion Notification Center!

This is an all-or-nothing compression/decompression app. You cannot view the contents of a compressed archive or extract specific files. You either dump everything or do nothing. Also, you can only extract a file to the same directory in which a the file resides. Case in point: I have a 100+ GB zip file on my NAS. To get the contents on my computer, I have to first copy the entire file to my computer and then extract it. I cannot extract it from the NAS to the computer. This limitation is kind of a show-stopper for me. I wish I would have known this before I made the purchase.

Pack files with russian names in Windows. Unpack under Mac and get broken file names.

Zipeg kept giving me errors. Keka did the trick. For $2 I saved myself a lot of headache. Thank you!

Ive only given this compressor 2 stars because the options laidout for you are nice, but as for it being an actual compressor… Its no different from that of the one that Mac provides you. I was hoping for a much better compressor, compressing my files more than the one that Mac provides, but this is no better. While ease of use, and function are great this doesnt do what I was hoping it would do.

The major flaw is that it uses a hidden temporary directory, then moves the results. This is fine. However, if you cancel an operation it leaves this hidden directory and its contents behind. I just had to clear out about 25GB of junk it left behind over the past year. If you cancel an operation it should gracefully clean up after itself and doesn’t.

Bought this because of Rar v5 support and I am 100% satisfied, it has been quite an annoying hassle lately.

Compressing a single file into zip also makes a copy of the folder structure, which is not usually desirable. This makes it unusable for me until this behavior is fixed.

I was surprised that my current archive utility for the Mac would not handle password-protected zip files created with 7-zip on Windows 7 using AES-256 encryption. Apparently the zip version isn’t advanced enough. Keka worked great - it spotted the encryption, asked me for the password, and opened the file with no trouble at all. I was happy to pay the meager $2 for this app. Looking forward to doing some fancy zipping with the thing.

This is the best archive utility. I’ve tried them all. It does everything and more. …Minus one star because the icons are ugly.

does everything

Love my Mac, but miss 7-Zip I use in Windows. This is a great OS X alternative—simple to use, flexible, easy to configure. Exactly what I was after. Well worth the $2!

I am trying to extract a file but everytime I try to extract I get prompted a password screen. I dont know what password to enter so I’ve tried entering the password given to me for the program and the password to my computer with no avail. Could the developer of this application please email me and provide some help on this. I am working on a project for school and since I cannot install my program I cannot get my project completeled. Thank You

can Keka _really_ not open an archive to view contents? Can you really not edit (i.e. remove or add) contents of the compressed file. How does this compete with WinRAR? I can’t believe I spent any money on this app. It’s entry-level at best

I was just surprised that unarchiver didn’t support passworded encryption for 7z. I went looking for a replacement and found Keka. I was happy to pay USD $2 to have an app that protects my archives for the purposes of sending through unsecure channels.