WinZip Computing, a Corel Company, today announced its new free mobile app, WinZip® for iOS. Now the world’s #1 zip utility is available for iPhone®, iPad®, and iPod touch®, making it easy for users to browse and open zipped files on the go.

The new WinZip for iOS makes it simple to view, navigate and open the contents of any Zip file, whether it’s attached to an incoming email or downloaded from a web page.

• Tap once on the Zip file to see what it contains. Tap again to open and browse individual files on the spot, even without the associated apps installed on your device.
• Copy unzipped content to the clipboard to easily paste information into an email or another application.
• Open encrypted Zip files to review sensitive material safely while on the go.

WinZip for iOS offers built-in browsing and support for the following formats:

• Word documents (.doc, .docx)
• Excel® spreadsheets (.xls, .xlsx)
• PowerPoint® presentations (.ppt, .pptx)
• PDF files (.pdf)
• Photos and images (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .bmp, .gif, .tif, .tiff)
• Text files (.txt)
• Rich Text Format (.rtf)
• Keynote® (.key)
• Numbers (.numbers)
• Web files (.htm, .html, .jsp)
• Pages® (.pages)

“WinZip has built a large and loyal following by making it easy for users to handle zip files and any compressed file format that comes their way,” said Patrick Nichols, President of WinZip. “As we all spend more time with our mobile devices, the new WinZip iOS app lets you handle zip files wherever you are.”