Compare the Top Free Archiving Software as of January 2026

What is Free Archiving Software?

Archiving software is designed to securely store and manage digital data and documents over the long term, ensuring easy retrieval and compliance with legal or regulatory requirements. It automates the process of capturing, indexing, and preserving information from various sources such as emails, files, databases, and applications. The software often includes compression and encryption features to optimize storage space and protect sensitive data. By implementing retention policies and audit trails, archiving software helps organizations meet data governance standards and reduce risk. It supports efficient search and access, making historical data available for business intelligence and legal discovery. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Archiving software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    ArchiverFS

    ArchiverFS

    MLtek Limited

    ArchiverFS is a lightweight file archiving solution for servers and network storage that lets you use any NAS, SAN, or cloud platform as second-tier storage. With no databases or proprietary formats, it runs on pure NTFS from start to finish. Old, unused, or unstructured files can be moved in bulk from expensive primary storage to cheaper secondary devices while preserving directory structures, attributes, and permissions. If it can be formatted with NTFS and shared via a UNC path, ArchiverFS can use it. Features include support for cloud, DFS, replication, de-duplication, and compression. Optional link stubs (including seamless symbolic links) can be left in place of moved files, so users see them exactly as before. By reclaiming valuable space on primary storage without adding complexity, ArchiverFS helps organizations reduce costs, improve performance, and manage file growth with complete transparency.
    Starting Price: $1590.00/year
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    PinPoint Document Management System
    PinPoint DMS allows you and your staff to access files and data from anywhere in the world. Running on all platforms including MAC and mobile devices, PinPoint includes built-in tools for Workflow Management, Records Management, Onboarding, Publishing, Versioning, and full Content Search. The system can also automatically file documents without any human intervention. For over 19 years, PinPoint DMS has been enhancing our features that our competitors are just beginning to add. Find out how our document management software can help your organization go completely paperless!
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    Starting Price: Ranges from $1 to $20 a month per user
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    Aid4Mail

    Aid4Mail

    Fookes Software Ltd

    Aid4Mail is a fast, reliable, and highly accurate tool to collect, recover, search, and convert emails. It supports most mailbox file formats (e.g. PST, OST, OLM, mbox), IMAP accounts (e.g. Yahoo! Mail, AOL) and popular mail service providers (e.g. Microsoft 365, Exchange, Gmail). Aid4Mail can recover double-deleted messages and corrupted emails, and extract MIME data from certain types of unknown file formats through file carving. Aid4Mail provides a large array of tools to search and filter out unwanted emails during conversion. Save time by using native pre-acquisition filters to download a subset of your mail from Exchange, Office 365, Gmail and other webmail services. Use Aid4Mail’s integrated search engine to cull-down your email collection. Its search operators are very similar to Gmail and Office 365. Aid4Mail is used by Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and legal professionals around the world. It is made in Switzerland by perfectionists.
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    Starting Price: $59.95
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    SuiteCRM

    SuiteCRM

    SuiteCRM

    SuiteCRM is the award winning Customer Relationship Management application brought to you by SuiteCRM Ltd who are the authors and maintainers. The application is enterprise ready and completely scalable to suit any business size or business requirement. The application is fully customisable and can be tailor made to fit your current or future business processes. Most importantly the application is Open Source, so it’s completely FREE to use, with no limitations on users.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Skridle

    Skridle

    Skridle

    Let yourself go into business. We will take care of the routine! Switching between Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram and Gmail to find information is too time-consuming. Skridle will collect and categorize all information. Add in the necessary number of workspaces. Use Manual export or choose an Autoload for the most important channels. Messages are saved jointly with Emoji, Attached Files and Threads of comments in one click. Any changes in messages are automatically saved in your message-base as well. AI labels messages with all the necessary tags in an automated mode. You can browse through all the necessary messages in one click. Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well. I recognize the highest value of the user data, so it's all safely encrypted and belongs entirely to proper owners. I neatly form the appropriate smart contexts for each team member.
    Starting Price: $10 per user per month
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    Bacula Enterprise

    Bacula Enterprise

    Bacula Systems

    Bacula Enterprise delivers Physical, Virtual, Container and Hybrid Cloud Backup & Recovery software for the Modern Data Center - all from a single platform. Designed for medium and large organizations, Bacula Enterprise backup and recovery software brings unique innovation, modern architecture, business value benefits and low cost of ownership. Bacula Enterprise corporate data backup software solution uses exclusive technologies that increase the interoperability, power, flexibility and functionality of Bacula Enterprise into a wide range of IT environments such as enterprise data centers, managed service providers, software vendors or cloud providers. Thousands of organizations worldwide use Bacula Enterprise in mission-critical environments, including NASA, Texas A&M University, Unicredit, Swisscom, Sky, and many more. Bacula provides additional security features over other vendors and offers advanced, hybrid Cloud connectivity to Amazon, S3, Google, Oracle and many more.
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    Preservica

    Preservica

    Preservica

    Preservica is a digital preservation software platform that uses Active Digital Preservation™ technology to automatically keep digital files readable, trusted, and usable over decades by converting them into future-friendly formats and maintaining their integrity and authenticity with checksums and full contextual metadata. It provides secure, scalable, cloud-hosted storage and archiving with features for easy upload and preservation, rich metadata management, powerful search and access & discovery, AI-powered archiving tools, catalog integration, and admin/security controls, and it can embed preservation into Microsoft 365 workflows via Preserve365®. Designed to protect against unreadable files, data loss, and compliance challenges, the software supports uploading large and varied content from multiple sources, enables instant retrieval for compliance, cultural, or business reuse, and helps demonstrate provenance and trustworthiness.
    Starting Price: Free
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    SkyHistory
    SkyHistory is a chat history manager for Skype that enables you to store and manage conversations, filter chats, and search through saved conversations according to the date. With the help of SkyHistory, you go through Skype chat history quickly and easily by means of search and filter application. Additional functions allow you to export Skype chat history to Excel CSV. Bookmark option keeps the most valuable and important messages around. Exports Skype history and categorizes the chats with the help of inbuilt calendar according to the date, the month and the year. Organizes a single database to store Skype message history for all Skype clients you have. Makes important Skype messages be readily available. Add a bookmark and get the needed chat line in a blink of a second. SkyHistory is one of the most efficient Skype chat history viewers. The functionality provided by the free version of SkyHistory implies searching through Skype chats chronologically and by Skype username.
    Starting Price: $18.98 one-time payment
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    ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus
    M365 Manager Plus is an extensive Microsoft 365 tool used for reporting, managing, monitoring, auditing, and creating alerts for critical activities. With its user-friendly interface, you can easily manage Exchange Online, Azure Active Directory, Skype for Business, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services all from one place. M365 Manager Plus provides exhaustive preconfigured reports on Microsoft 365 and helps you perform complex tasks including bulk user management, bulk mailbox management, secure delegation, and more. Monitor Microsoft 365 services around the clock, and receive instant email notifications about service outages. M365 Manager Plus eases compliance management with built-in compliance reports and offers advanced auditing and alerting features to keep your Microsoft 365 setup secure.
    Starting Price: $345 per year
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    ChangeTower

    ChangeTower

    ChangeTower

    Monitor website changes, get alerts, archive full history. ChangeTower is a powerful website change detection and archiving platform. Set custom alert criteria, monitor and track website changes, get notified. Choose a URL to monitor for web page changes or set for archival. Our engines will crawl and capture a full-page visual screenshot, text-based content snapshot, and source code. Our powerful change monitoring network tracks changes to websites over time. We notify you when we detect a change matching your settings and record and archive a snapshot of your page automatically. Select a part of the page to monitor for visual changes, or choose to monitor for keywords, sentences, code updates, images and more. Create advanced sets of criteria to monitor for. You decide what element(s) of a web page to monitor, and when to send you change alerts.
    Starting Price: $299 per month
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    Archive-It

    Archive-It

    Archive-It

    Since 2006, Internet Archive’s Archive-it has provided web archiving services to over 800 organizations in over 24 countries, including libraries, cultural memory and research institutions, social impact and community groups, and educational and open knowledge initiatives. Archive-it users have preserved over 40 billion born-digital, web-published records, totaling petabytes of data. Archive-It provides tools, training, and technical support for capturing and preserving dynamic web materials, as well as a platform for partners to share their collections, with multiple search, discovery, and access capabilities. Material archived via Archive-It is stored in not-for-profit data centers independently owned and operated by the Internet Archive, and is available for users to download themselves for additional preservation and sharing. Together, Archive-It users and the Internet Archive are furthering the shared ethos of ensuring perpetual access to diverse collections from the world.
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    NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
    Enterprise-grade storage wherever your apps are. Cloud Volumes ONTAP enables you to optimize your cloud storage costs and performance while enhancing data protection, security and compliance. Easily calculate your storage costs on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud with Cloud Volumes ONTAP using this free, simplified and easy to navigate calculator.
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    MirrorWeb

    MirrorWeb

    MirrorWeb

    We help firms manage and evidence changes in their digital content. Through the MirrorWeb Insight platform we capture, archive and monitor web, SMS, email, instant messaging, mobile platforms and social media channels, ensuring digital communication regulations are met and content remains compliant. Our technology is unrivalled. Through cloud-archiving we provide data sovereignty and store archives in a legally admissible format (WORM). Once captured, your archives can be replayed and searched through our platform at any time.
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