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                    <h1>About</h1>

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                        <p>Whether sending a batch of files or backuping your documents its always better to compress
                            them for easier exchange and storage. For that you certainly need a special tool - archiver.
                            We believe that when choosing what archiver to use you’ll always prefer the one which is
                            simple, fast and free. But among all the archives available we failed to find the tool that
                            could satisfy all our needs. Some of them didn’t work on laptops, others required users to
                            type console commands, and most of archivers were not free. Than we thought - why not create
                            the best archiver that could be good enough for every user? That’s how B1 project
                            started.</p>

                        <p>We believe “best” stands for universal, effective and free. “Best” means so amazingly simple
                            that even a child could use it. So now having worked really hard we are proud to offer you
                            B1 Free Archiver and brand new b1 archive format.</p>

                        <h2>B1 Free Archiver</h2>

                        <p>B1 is a free multi-platform universal archiver. Currently it works on Windows, Mac and Linux
                            platforms as well as on Android. B1 Archiver supports most popular formats - zip, rar, b1,
                            7z, iso, tar.gz, and many others. We’re constantly working on adding new formats
                            and <a href="/features.jsp">features</a> to the list. We do our best to make B1 Archiver as
                            fast, simple and safe as possible and we’d really appreciate it if you
                            <a href="/support.jsp">share</a> your experience
                            with us or leave a suggestion.</p>

                        <h2>B1 archive format</h2>

                        <p>We’ve made B1 archive format open to be able to share it with other developers. This new
                            format combines best known solutions and algorithms, as well as our original ideas and
                            discoveries. We’re constantly improving its compression capacity and we believe it’ll bring
                            amazing speed to compression ratio, pretty much better than zip, rar or 7z. We work under
                            <a href="http://dev.b1.org/license.html">Apache License</a>, so unlike some other formats
                            b1 is completely free for both commercial and personal use. You can find more
                            <a href="/developers.jsp">information for developers here</a>.
                            If you need any assistance or you’d like to contribute to b1 project - please do not
                            hesitate to <a href="/support.jsp">contact us</a>.</p>
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