
You get a "paid version required" error when you try to launch these. Note that Bandizip 7.0 Standard Edition displays the available pro-tools like Repair Archive in its interface. It is therefore relatively easy to avoid seeing ads if you use the program only for extraction purposes. It opens with an ad if you start it directly but ads are not displayed when you open archives in the software or extract archives. The free version of Bandizip installs over current versions. To the developer's credit, the features that are limited or not available have not been available in previous versions of Bandizip.

These features, the option to repair archives, password recovery, password management, antimalware scan, or image previews in archives, are not included in the free version at all or severely limited (only one password can be stored in the Standard Edition password manager).

The free version is limited the most when it comes to functionality this begins with the lack of an offline installer - only an online installer is provided - continues with the strictest update policy - only the latest version is provided - and ends in a number of features that are not supported by it. Price and the display of advertisement are not the only difference between the versions. The professional version is available for a one-time payment of $30, the Enterprise version, available only to Enterprise organizations, for $20 per single-PC. These come without advertisement but need to be purchased. Two commercial versions of Bandizip, Bandizip Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition, are introduced. The new version is called Bandizip 7.0 Standard Edition and while it is free to use, it is now limited in functionality when compared to the commercial versions, and comes with advertisement. Extraction of selected files only.Bandizip 7.0 is still available as a free version just like the old one.Supported formats: 7Z, ACE, AES, ALZ, ARJ, BH, BIN, BR, BZ, BZ2, CAB, Compound(MSI), DEB, EGG, GZ, IMG, ISO, ISZ, LHA, LZ, LZH, LZMA, PMA, RAR, RAR5, SFX(EXE), TAR, TBZ, TBZ2, TGZ, TLZ, TXZ, UDF, UUE, WIM, XPI, XXE, XZ, Z, ZIP, ZIPX and ZPAQ, ZST.Multi-volume archive creation of ZIP/7z format.Unicode or MBCS filename for ZIP format.Supports compression of 4 GB or more size file.Up to 6 times faster compression than the Finder using multi-core.ZIP file modification (add/delete/rename).Extraction for 30+ formats, including: RAR/RAR5/7Z/ZIP.All-inclusive compression/decompression/browsing/editing App.
