Not only is ToySoft's LightNZip a simple to use and powerful archiving tool, it packs enough punch to use as a file management platform and data importer, so as far as bang for your back goes, LNZ is a real winner.

Its GUI is visually pleasing, simple and practical, though it needs better directory management. If it had fileZ’s abilities to copy and move data, or if it could actually open and let you run applications from WITHIN a Zip file, I’d probably use it as my main shell.

Overall, LNZ is a brilliant application that (hopefully) will only get better with time. And again, to ToySoft, please consider switching to a Nutshell-built, self-extracting distribution of LNZ, instead of supplying it in a Zip file itself.

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Criteria  Rating GUI Aesthetics 5 Usability 5 Functionality 4 Value 5 Overall (not an average)	Pros Clean, honest GUI that gets the job done without getting in your way. Runs entirely from your SD card. WinZip style decompression opens archives to selectively extract and expand files. Builds Zip files too, of course. Opens and imports ASCII and HTML files. Beam, or send files via Bluetooth or email client. File browser shell acts as a data manager.
	Cons Unfortunately distributed as a ZIP file itself :-( .. Double-tap to open directory paths does not always work. File viewer shows only one directory path at a time. Bluetooth sending has problems on Mac / Linux