unxip ☆

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Description:
Fast Xcode unarchiver

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: xcode developer-tool cli archive swift

Install: brew install unxip

About:
Unxip is a high-performance command-line tool designed for rapidly extracting Xcode archives. It significantly outperforms the standard Archive Utility by leveraging parallel processing to decompress and write files concurrently. This results in dramatically reduced extraction times for large Xcode .xip files.

Key Features:

Parallel processing for maximum speed
Automatic code signature verification
Command-line interface for scripting
Written in Swift for native performance

Use Cases:

Accelerating Xcode installation in CI/CD pipelines
Quickly extracting large Xcode archives on local developer machines

Alternatives:

xip – The built-in macOS utility, which is significantly slower for large archives.
Archive Utility – The default GUI app for opening .xip files, also slower than Unxip.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 11, 2025 11:35pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	8989dc3b
Sep 21, 2024 1:06pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	eb5d7e1f