HuffmanZip (Hz) is a simple macOS application built with Swift 6.1 that demonstrates how to compress and decompress files using the Huffman Coding algorithm.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This project is provided for educational purposes only. It is not optimized for performance or real-world use. Use at your own risk.

✨ Features

• 📦 Compress any file using the Huffman algorithm
• 📂 Decompress previously compressed .hz files

🧠 Why Huffman?

Huffman coding is a classic lossless data compression algorithm. While no longer optimal compared to modern codecs, it’s widely used as an educational introduction to entropy encoding.

🚀 Getting Started

Requirements

• macOS 15.4.1 or later
• Xcode 16.3 or later
• Swift 6.1

Installation

Clone the repository and open the Xcode project:

git clone https://github.com/htaschne/hz.git
cd hz
open hz.xcodeproj

Demo

Although it's way slower than state of the art compressors it compresses the bible in under a second and takes 2s to decompress it