5 Best Free ZIP File Password Recovery Tools for Windows

ZIP is a popular file format to compress files before sending via emails or transferring files to friends. Sometimes, people also add passwords to ZIP files to make content secure and personal. But trouble arises when you forget the password of the ZIP archive. You cannot access the file content if you do not have a password. So, you may end up losing your important data. This is the main reason people search for Zip password cracking tools.

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Cracking zip passwords is not as hard as it seems. You only need to have a good ZIP password cracking tool to crack the ZIP password and see your content. There are many free and paid ZIP file password recovery programs available which can crack zip file password. In this post, we are listing 5 free ZIP password cracking or recovery tools for Windows.

Free ZIP Password Cracking Tools for Windows

These are few best ZIP password cracking tools available for free. You can try these tools and see what works for you.

1. Zip Password Recovery Tool

Zip Password Recovery Tool or ZIP Password Cracker is a free software program developed to help people recover the lost of forgotten passwords of ZIP archives. It performs number of attacks on the ZIP file to crack its passwords. For cracking the password, it performs dictionary based attack and Brute-force attack. Users can set number of attacks, possible password length and charset.

Only drawback of the tool is that it installs adware in browser. So, take care to uncheck the appropriate boxes.

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2. Appnimi Zip Password Unlocker

Appnimi Zip Password Unlocker is another nice freely available ZIP password cracking software. It also guarantees the recovery of most complicated passwords used in ZIP files. By using Brute-Force algorithm, it performs the attack on the ZIP archive and then tries to get possible password. It supports both 32 bit ad 64 bit Windows.

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3. ZIP password finder

ZIP password finder comes with easy to use interface and costs nothing. It is another nice password recovery tool for ZIP files. You can give this tool a try if finding a way to crack password of ZIP archives.

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4. ZIP Password Cracker Pro

Do not go on the name where it says PRO becuase Pro is for profession. It is a free ZIP password cracking software. This tool generates millions of password and applies to ZIP files till it finds the working password. It also has a nice feature of storing information in backup. If there is a power failure or system crack, you not need to start the attack from the beginning. It starts where it left.

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5. Zip Password Recovery 1.40

This is another tool that uses Brute-force attack for cracking the password of ZIP archives. It can also run in background and can also recover the last saved state. You can easily terminate the program for few specific times and you will not have to start from beginning. It is fast and there is no limit to the length of the password to be recovered. This is a very old tool and not in active development.

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Final Words

There are the best 5 zip password remover freeware tools. If you are also looking for a ZIP password recovery or cracking tool, you can try these tools. In most of the cases, these tool help but time taken to crack the password may vary. If ZIP was password protected by using a hard password with a combination of capital, small chars, numbers and special chars, it may take few hours to few days depending on the performance of the system.

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