The requirements were really simple: runs on Mavericks, has a nice GUI, lets
you browse the archive without extracting it, and may both create and extract
ZIP/TAR/RAR/GZ/TGZ/BZ2.
With those simple criteria the answer for me was Entropy.
Here is some of the data.
| Make | Gut | OSX | GUI | Browse | Create/ | Lic | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| feel | 10.9 | Extract. | |||||
| ZIP TAR RAR | |||||||
| GZ TGZ BZ2 | |||||||
| Entropy | Nice | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | $ | Informative site. |
| Springy | Nice | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | $ | Uninformative. |
| Zipeg | OK | Yes? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Zero | Rare. |
| Stuffit Deluxe | OK | Yes | Yes | Yes | ZIP,TAR,RAR | ||
| B1 | Nice | Yes? | Yes | Yes | ZIP,RAR | Little fmts. | |
| BetterZip2 | Don’t list | ||||||
| formats. | |||||||
| iPack | No | No feat list. | |||||
| iUnarchive | OK | Yes? | Yes | Yes | 7z, ZIP | Not enough fmt. | |
| Keka | Nice | No screenshots. | |||||
| The Unarchiver | No | No screenshots. | |||||
| 7-zip | Nice | Yes | No | No GUI. | |||
| Zip Browser | No | ZIP only | |||||
| Ez7z | No | No longer dev’d. | |||||
| 7zX | No | No screenshots. |