Keka is an open source Mac utility that enables you to create and extract archive files with ease. Unlike Mac's default archive file manager, this application supports a wider variety of formats, provides you with extra file compression settings, and much more.
Archive Utility, Mac's default archive file manager, is an app that you don't need to launch in order to create or extract compressed files. You simply double-click archive files to extract them and use Finder's contextual menu to extract them. The app can be found with a simple Spotlight search. Once you launch it, you'll notice that it features a very small amount of useful features. For instance, it supports only one output format when creating archive files (ZIP), doesn't let you extract multiple compressed files at the same time, etc. For this reason, apps like Keka were created.
This program allows you to extract files with the following extensions ZIP, ISO, CAB, ACE, and many others. Furthermore, it lets you create archives of various formats, not just ZIP (drag the files you wish to compress over its interface or Dock icon).
Another important aspect is that it comes with a split option which comes in handy when creating archives from large files. Furthermore, it takes a very small amount of time to offer you the results you need, supports batch processing, and uses minimum CPU resources while running on your Mac.
With that being said, Keka proves to be a reliable solution for handling archive files on your Mac.
v1.0 [Feb 27, 2012]
- Compatible with OS X Mavericks.
- Updated unrar 4.11 to unrar 5.00.
- Updated Growl framework to 2.0.1 version enabling Notification Center support.
- Fixed Quit problems.
- Added Japanese translation.
- Added French translation.
- Added German translation.
- Added Hungarian translation.
- Added queued operations counter to the badge.
- Added AES256 zip encryption support (Experimental, must enable Dev environment).
- Timed the auto-exit so the compression-extraction sound can be played (1 sec).
- Fixed badge error where number of operations can be negative and incorrect.
- Fixed a bug causing never ending operations when compressing Volumes.
- Fixed absolute path management for TAR, TGZ and TBZ compression.
- Fixed some English strings.
- Fixed split menu string in English and Spanish.
- Fixed Lion specific error that keeps a badge number in the Launchpad.
- Fixed some English strings.
- Fixed a cosmetic bug in the toolbar in Snow Leopard.
