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The Unarchiver (available on the Mac App Store) is the Jack-of-All-Trades decompressor of choice for me on my Mac these days, and can actually handle quite a few versions of StuffIt archives.

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It's good, but I've shifted over to Keka (https://github.com/aonez/Keka) which is much more modern and versatile (and compresses)

Another vote for Keka! Simple, easy to use, finder integrated, open source and modern. Love it.

Keka isn't open source. It's not even source-available! https://github.com/aonez/Keka/blob/fb4292000cf946e6a022d0281...

> The source code of Keka 1.0 will not be public due some legal issues. Legal support is needed, if you can help the project, please get in contact on info@keka.io or the Project page on the official Keka website. Any help is welcome.

huh... was it open source before? I could have sworn it was when I first started using it years ago

StuffIt Expander though was such a common thing in its day. A Mac without StuffIt and Expander were just broken.

My problem with Unarchiver, Keka, and most other "decompression apps" available on MacOS is that none of them offer any kind of browsing functionality or the ability to select specific files to extract from your archive. They seem to focus on only extracting everything, and sometimes charge $4.99 for that limited functionality (looking at you Keka).

For that reason, these days I tend to stick with 7-Zip running through CrossOver for my archiving needs.

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