7z is an alternative to zip

Create an archive a montior compression progress:

7z a archive.zip my-folder/

a stands for add

Snapshot of the compression progress:

7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,1 CPU QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0 (623),ASM)

Scanning the drive:
1004 folders, 136557 files, 6612288441 bytes (6306 MiB)                        

Creating archive: archive.zip

Items to compress: 137561

 98% 133273 + file/ . /01/12345.jpg   

7z also give you a nice ensurance, that everything is OK, when it's done.

Files read from disk: 136557
Archive size: 6118548821 bytes (5836 MiB)
Everything is Ok