If you are indeed an avid computer aficionado, we’re pretty sure that you’ve been using WinRAR for years, believing that this is the best compression tool out there and its price is just a reflection of its great features.

Well, it’s pretty obvious that you haven’t tried TUGZip, a freeware application that works with so many archive formats on the market, thus being able to replace almost any other compression tool.

First of all, TUGZip is capable of creating ZIP, TAR, TGZ, BZ2, CAB, LHA (LZH), SQX, YZ1 and 7-ZIP archives but, at the same time, it also has the power to open virtually all archive formats out there, including the ones mentioned by the developer, as it follows: ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ and YZ1.

Of course, just like all the other compression tools in the world, it integrates pretty nice into the Windows context menu, which means you can create archives and extract files from the existing ones just with a single right click.

The interface is not at all complicated and it lets you access the basic features, be they add, extract, delete, rename, test an archive or scan it for viruses on the fly.

In plain English, TUGZip has all the things you’d ever need from a compression tool, but if there’s an area to improve in the future, it is definitely its speed.

TUGZip works pretty fast with small archives, but the biggest difference between this one and the top picks in the industry can be seen when dealing with large archives. TUGZip tends to get tired a little bit after a while, so it might lose some speed when trying to handle extra large files.

But all in all, TUGZip is a five-star product, no matter if we talk about features, interface or cost.