Sip Zip

Sip Zip is a lightweight software application whose purpose is to help you create ZIP archives, modify the content of existing archives, as well as extract files from compressed packages. It can be deployed on all Windows versions out there.

Interacting with the GUI

The layout looks a bit outdated. However, it reveals a clean feature structure so you are not going to spend a lot of time wondering where to get started. A help manual is not available. However, you can manage to decode the dedicated parameters on your own.

Key features

Sip Zip offers you the possibility to open a user-defined archive (ZIP or EXE file format), delete archives, or create new ones by providing information about the name and saving directory. ZIP archives can be also be converted to EXE file format on the fly.
Other important configuration settings worth being mentioned enable you to add extra files to an existing archive, extract items from the compressed file, as well as delete items from the archive.
You are also given the freedom to verify the integrity of archives, check out a log with errors, view archive comments in a dedicated panel, as well as get detailed information about each file comprised in an archive, such as filename, ratio value, and date/time.
What’s more, you can opt for extracting all items or only the selected ones and overwrite files in case they exist in the target directory. When it comes to designing a self-extracting archive, you can disable the option used for launching the command-line console, allow users to modify the list of files to extract, hide overwrite options, and create an AutoRun SFX file.
Tests have pointed out that Sip Zip is quite buggy when it comes to creating new archives. It has not been updated for a long time so you may bump into all sorts of compatibility issues and errors on newer operating systems like Windows 10 and 8.

Final ideas

To sum things up, Sip Zip comes bundled with handy features for helping you manage archives. However, it needs several functionality improvements until it can be called a reliable compression tool.