Preview, create and extract archives on your Mac, in Terminal or through local MCP tools. Free lifetime personal licence with verified email. Commercial use is US$5 once per person on up to three Macs. macOS 26+, Apple Silicon.
Hi Product Hunt — we’re building CozyZip to make archives less surprising.
CozyZip lets you preview what is inside an archive before extracting it, see risky scripts and misleading entries, and create ZIP, 7z and TAR.GZ archives. ZIP and 7z support optional AES-256 encryption. Archive processing stays on your Mac. Native Terminal tools and a local MCP server are bundled with the app, with dedicated setup documentation and a short prompt your assistant can follow. Setup docs: https://cozymacapps.com/cozyzip/...
Personal use is free for life with a verified-email licence. Commercial use starts at US$5 once per person, covering up to three Macs and future CozyZip updates. News emails are a separate, optional choice.
It runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 26 or later. We’d love feedback on the archive preview, safety explanations and creation workflow. Which archive task would you most like to make easier?
One of my agents pulls a zip off a release page and unpacks it into the repo without me having looked inside. Congrats on CozyZip. Is that the case for the MCP server, the agent seeing the file list first?
Preview before extracting is the part that actually matters to me — I've been bitten by archives that dump files everywhere or hide scripts inside. Flagging risky scripts up front is a really nice touch. Also like that it works in Terminal and through local MCP tools, not just the GUI. Curious how the preview handles nested archives.
About CozyZip on Product Hunt
“Zip and unzip without the surprises.”
CozyZip launched on Product Hunt on November 9th, 2026 and earned 79 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #18 on the daily leaderboard. Preview, create and extract archives on your Mac, in Terminal or through local MCP tools. Free lifetime personal licence with verified email. Commercial use is US$5 once per person on up to three Macs. macOS 26+, Apple Silicon.
CozyZip was featured in Mac (103.9k followers), Productivity (665.4k followers) and Developer Tools (523k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 282.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted CozyZip?
CozyZip was hunted by Ahmed Saleem. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Ahmed Saleem
Hi Product Hunt — we’re building CozyZip to make archives less surprising.
CozyZip lets you preview what is inside an archive before extracting it, see risky scripts and misleading entries, and create ZIP, 7z and TAR.GZ archives. ZIP and 7z support optional AES-256 encryption. Archive processing stays on your Mac. Native Terminal tools and a local MCP server are bundled with the app, with dedicated setup documentation and a short prompt your assistant can follow. Setup docs: https://cozymacapps.com/cozyzip/...
Personal use is free for life with a verified-email licence. Commercial use starts at US$5 once per person, covering up to three Macs and future CozyZip updates. News emails are a separate, optional choice.
It runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 26 or later. We’d love feedback on the archive preview, safety explanations and creation workflow. Which archive task would you most like to make easier?