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Description

The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR (including v5), 7-zip, Tar, Gzip and Bzip2. It will also open many older formats, such as StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ and ARC. It will even open other kinds of files, like ISO and BIN disc images, some Windows .EXE installers. The list is actually much longer - see the program homepage for the full list.

The Unarchiver also tries to detect and correctly handle the filename encoding in the archives it opens, allowing you to open files from every part of the world without getting garbled filenames.

The Unarchiver aims to be the only unarchiving program you will ever need, and to stay out of your way.

Also, if you need to open archives on your iPad or iPhone, look for "Archives" on the App Store, or go to https://theunarchiver.com/archives. It is based on The Unarchiver, and lets you easily handle Archives on iOS!

What’s New

Version 4.2.4

The Unarchiver is running like a champ on the new macOS Big Sur.

Fixed:
• Malformed RAR archives don't crash The Unarchiver anymore.
• Extracting malformed archives won't result in out of memory errors or reading out of memory bounds error.
• RARE8E9Filter crash is fixed.

Ratings and Reviews

4.2 out of 5
126 Ratings

126 Ratings

Sabtain Aziz ,

Just Works

Does everything it says, opens compressed files quite quickly and efficiently.
Nice to see it is still receiving regular updates, the dark mode addition is very welcome.
A few bugs here and there but on the whole a great app and it's FREE! Can't really complain.
Using on 2018 Custom spec MacBook Pro 15"

Rasti Breza ,

The best .rar extractor

I tried different apps to be able to extract .rar archives the same way Mac extracts .zip archives - without having to open a separate software, without having weird and ugly icons for each .rar archives. Unarchvier finally does that. It works like a nice utility that does it job in the background - I just double click a .rar archive and it gets extracted in the same folder. It works just like extracting a .zip archive natively on Mac. I don't think I ever opened the actual app. Perfect.

robfolau ,

UPDATED AGAIN for 4.2 Sent a rar file and this app was what I needed

Still fit for purpose

For some reason one of my clients keeps sending me RAR files. I hate him! Luckly this app opens them perfectly

PREVIOUS Googled, found this, downloaded and opened. Perfect and simple. Very easy to set prefs as to what you want it to open and did not take over my machine. Recommended

App Privacy

The developer, MacPaw Inc., has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

No Details Provided

The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.

Information

Provider
MacPaw Inc.
Size
13.6 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility

OS X 10.7 or later, 64-bit processor

Languages

English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

Age Rating
4+
Copyright
Price
Free

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members will be able to use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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