diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f045bbe38..2b1ca472f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ Categories Used:
 - Support decompression of concatenated `.gz`, `.bz2`, and `.lz4` (https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch/pull/898)
 
 ### Improvements
-
 - Give better error messages when archive extensions are invalid (https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch/pull/817)
 - Improve misleading error message (https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch/pull/818)
 - Add aliases for `--password` flag (`--pass` and `--pw`) (https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch/pull/847)
@@ -44,6 +43,7 @@ Categories Used:
 - Refactor/simplify logger (https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch/pull/888)
 - Print input and output file sizes (https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch/pull/914)
 - Make path printing concise and consistent (https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch/pull/916)
+- Unify directory extraction message for zip and tar archives (https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch/pull/937)
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 
diff --git a/src/archive/tar.rs b/src/archive/tar.rs
index af02cd673..aadb3df88 100644
--- a/src/archive/tar.rs
+++ b/src/archive/tar.rs
@@ -79,11 +79,15 @@ pub fn unpack_archive(reader: impl Read, output_folder: &Path) -> Result<u64> {
             _ => continue,
         }
 
-        info!(
-            "extracted ({}) {:?}",
-            BytesFmt(file.size()),
-            PathFmt(&output_folder.join(file.path()?)),
-        );
+        if file.header().entry_type().is_dir() {
+            info!("Directory {:?} created", PathFmt(&output_folder.join(file.path()?)));
+        } else {
+            info!(
+                "extracted ({}) {:?}",
+                BytesFmt(file.size()),
+                PathFmt(&output_folder.join(file.path()?)),
+            );
+        }
         files_unpacked += 1;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/archive/zip.rs b/src/archive/zip.rs
index 42fd83ad8..05532717d 100644
--- a/src/archive/zip.rs
+++ b/src/archive/zip.rs
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ where
 
         match file.name().ends_with('/') {
             _is_dir @ true => {
-                info!("File {} extracted to {:?}", idx, PathFmt(&file_path));
+                info!("Directory {:?} created", PathFmt(&file_path));
 
                 let mode = file.unix_mode();
                 let is_symlink = mode.is_some_and(|mode| mode & 0o170000 == 0o120000);
diff --git a/tests/snapshots/ui__ui_test_ok_decompress_multiple_files.snap b/tests/snapshots/ui__ui_test_ok_decompress_multiple_files.snap
index b97d95e7c..5ea40b194 100644
--- a/tests/snapshots/ui__ui_test_ok_decompress_multiple_files.snap
+++ b/tests/snapshots/ui__ui_test_ok_decompress_multiple_files.snap
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 source: tests/ui.rs
 expression: "lines.join(\"\\n\")"
 ---
+[INFO] Directory "output/input" created
 [INFO] Files unpacked: 4
 [INFO] Successfully decompressed archive to "output"
-[INFO] extracted ( [SIZE]) "output/input"
 [INFO] extracted ( [SIZE]) "output/input/input"
 [INFO] extracted ( [SIZE]) "output/input/input2"
 [INFO] extracted ( [SIZE]) "output/input/input3"