The Unarchiver | Top Free Unarchiving Software for macOS

The Unarchiver is the only app you need to open RAR on Mac. It's times more powerful than the native macOS utility and supports infinitely more archive formats. TheUnarchiver Openanyarchiveinseconds TheUnarchiveristheonlyappyouneedtoopenRARonMac.It’stimesmorepowerfulthanthenativemacOSutilityandsupportsinfinitelymorearchiveformats. Download Latestversion:4.3.5(13May2022) macOS10.9orlater.Forearlierversionsclickhere. Quickinstall Takesafewclickstoinstallandsetitasadefaultappforallarchivefiles. Freeandalwayswillbe TheUnarchiverforMacisfree.Noin-appsforadditionalfeatures. Readsforeigncharacters Ifyourarchiveisnamedwithnon-Latincharacters,it’snotaproblem. Supportedarchiveformats WithTheUnarchiveryoucanextractfilesfromthefollowingarchiveformats Popularformats Zip Full Zip Fullsupportforthenormalzipformat,withadditionalsupportforAESencryption,Zip64extensionsforlargefiles,MacOSextensionsofmanydifferentkinds,andseveralunusualcompressionmethods.Canalsoextract.EXEself-extractingfilesusingZip. Zipx Full Zipx FullsupportforthenewcompressionmodesintroducedbyWinZip. RAR Full RAR Includingencryptionandmultiplevolumes.Canalsoextract.EXEself-extractingfilesusingRAR. 7z Full 7z Allcommoncompressionmethodsaresupported.AlsosupportsUnixextensions. Tar Full Gzip Full Bzip2 Full LZMA,XZ Full LZMA,XZ Boththeold"LZMA-alone"format,usuallynamed.lzma,andthenew.xzformat. CAB Full MSI Full MSI ThisformatisalsousedbymanyotherMicrosoftformats,meaningsthatyoucanuseTheUnarchivertoextractinternaldatafromDOCandPPTfiles,andothers.Thereisprobablynoreasontodothis,butyoucan. NSIS Extensive NSIS Supportsmanydifferentversions,startingfromversion1.10 EXE Some EXE Manykindsof.exeself-extractingformatsaresupported.However,ifyoufindonethatisnot,pleasepostanissueonthebugtracker. ISO,BIN,MDF,NRG,CDI Extensive ISO,BIN,MDF,NRG,CDI Mostcommondiscimagescanbeunpacked,bothnormalandraw. Splitfiles Basic Splitfiles Canjoinfilesnamed.001,.002thatdonotuseanyextrawrapperformat. Oldformats StuffIt Noencryption StuffIt CanunpackallfilesI'vebeenabletolocate. StuffItX Partial StuffItX Canunpackmanyfiles,somemoreobscurefeaturesarestillunsupported.JPEGcompressionisalsounsupported. DiskDoubler Almostfull DiskDoubler Onlylackssomeoldcompressionmethods,becauseIhavenotbeenabletolocateanyfilesusingthese.Ifyouhavesomethatdonotwork,pleasepostthemhere. CompactPro Noencryption PackIt Full Cpio Full Compress(.Z) Full ARJ Nomulti-part ARC,PAK Full ARC,PAK Fullsupportforallalgorithms,includingproprietaryonesfromPAK.Encryptiononlyworksincommand-lineutilities. Ace Onlyoldfiles Ace NosupportforAce2.0andup(WinAce). Zoo Full LZH Full ADF FFS ADF CanextractfilesfromAmigadiskimagesusingtheregularFFSfilesystem. DMS FFS DMS CanextractfilesfromcompressedAmigadiskimagesusingtheregularFFSfilesystem. LZX Full PowerPacker Full LBR Full Squeeze Full Crunch Full Manyotheroldformats,especiallyAmiga-specificones,arealsosupportedthroughlibxad,butIhavenotmadeafullsurveyofwhichones. Unusualformats XAR FFS XAR SuggestedreplacementforTaronUnix.Usedinsomenewer.pkgfilesonmacOS. RPM Full RPM Linuxpackageformat. Deb Full Deb Linuxpackageformat. Ar Full Ar Unixlibraryformat. ALZip Noencryption ALZip ArchiveformatwhichismainlypopularinSouthKorea.Supportforallknowncompressionmethods,includingBzip2,DeflateandobfuscatedDeflate. WARC Full WARC InternetArchiveWebArchive.Requestandresponseheadersalsoincludedinmetadata. NSA,SAR Partial NSA,SAR Gamedatafile.CanunpackallfilesI'vefound.Ifyouhaveonesthatdonotunpack,pleasepostanissue. NDS Full NDS NintendoDSROMimage,whichcancontainafilesystem. SWF Imagesandaudio SWF Extractsimages,soundsandmusicfromFlashfiles. PDF Bitmapimages PDF ExtractsbitmapimagesfromPDFfiles.EspeciallyusefulforscannedPDFs. ViewAll HowtouseTheUnarchiver 1 Chooseanyarchivefile 2 GotoFile->Getinfomenu 3 IntheOpenwithchooseTheUnarchiver 4 ClickChangeall NowallthearchivefilesyouhavewillautomaticallyopenwithTheUnarchiverandyou’llforgetthe“Unknownformat”alertsandextractionerrorsforever.HavingaRARextractorforMacsavesyoutonsoftimewhendealingwitharchives. Download Latestversion:4.3.5(13May2022) macOS10.9orlater.Forearlierversionsclick here. OtherApps: Archives HandlearchivesontheiPhoneandiPad. Xee3 EasilybrowseimagesinfoldersandarchivesonmacOS. CommandLineTool UseUnarchiver’scodeonotherOSeswithcommandline. MacPawusescookiestopersonalizeyourexperienceonourwebsite.Bycontinuingtousethissite,youagreetoourcookiepolicy.Click heretolearnmore. OK