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ExtractNow

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ExtractNow is a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple archives quickly and easily.

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License model

  • Free • Proprietary

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Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Windows
  • Wine  Supported through Wine on Linux and Macintosh.
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Discontinued

Last version is from April 23rd, 2017.

3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
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6comments
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  1. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
  2.  Folder Mirroring
  3.  Drag and Drop
  4.  File Archiving

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Top Positive Comment
DrBed
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Nov 30, 2016
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ExtractNow isn't discontinued, development just stalled - because application is already near perfect! Actually, ExtracNow supports so much file formats, even some abandoned ones! For example, I found some rare old data which was in old Stuffit (.sit, .bin) archive file format. None of other tools could extract it. What is more important, Stuffit changed it's own format cross own versions of program. But ExtractNow extracts it without a problem. Right now, supported formats are: zip (+jar,xpi), bzip2 (+bz2,tbz2,tbz), rar, arj, z, lzh (+lha), 7z, cab, nsis, lzma, lzma86, xz (+txz), ppmd, udf, xar, mub, hfs, dmg, compound (+msi,doc,xls,ppt), wim (+swm), iso, chm (+chm,chi,chq,chw,hxs,hxi,hxr,hxq,hxw,lit), split (+001), rpm, deb, cpio, tar, gzip (+gz,gzip,tgz,tpz), mslz, flv, swf, ntfs (+ntfs,img), fat (+fat,img), mbr, vhd, pe, elf, apm, macho, ace, sit (bin)

Fake "virus" allert is made on "heuristic" "precognition" by bad antivirus software: If you click on provided link, it will show you message as follows: "Probably harmless! There are strong indicators suggesting that this file is safe to use." Detection ratio: 3 / 56

  • two of those are from same "genius" McAfee which is known of fake allerts, and 3rd is from "CAT-QuickHeal", program which is mostly unknown outside of India. Even QuickHeal flagged ExtractNow as "suspicious", not as a virus! However, it is OLD report - new one shows: Detection ratio: 2 / 57 Analysis date: 2016-11-23 06:03:27 UTC And McAfee and QuickHeal both withdraw their fake report. However, here are new "players" ClamAV and Chinese "Rising", reporting suspected "Win.Trojan.Generic" and - "Malware.Undefined" ??? Funny thing is that if you check same ExtractNow version without installer, it is not suspected anymore by "Rising", but - now occurs "Invincea", AV that claims that other package of same program is safe, but now it is suspected of "virus.win32.sality.at" ??? "sality.at" - as expired security domain - really??? So much about it...

There are portable, standalone and installer versions (at main site) of program. ExtractNow supports drag and drop, and it works flawlessly at all kind of Windows and Linux - through Wine, also does work nicely at WineBottler (Mac).

What is missing in ExtractNow right now is support for some new exotic archive formats, like NanoZip, ZPAQ or FreeArc. But those are mostly experimental or beta versions, and not in wide use.

Top Negative Comment
Splat
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Mar 10, 2019
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I can confirm this. :(

mo
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Oct 20, 2012
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This is the best free batch extractor I've found so far. I use it on all rars I have. Just watch out when you install it - it bundles toolbars if you don't untick the options.

Jaymoon
Apr 28, 2011
1

This is the best batch extractor there is. That being said, it's very buggy and crashes a lot for me (always has even after major releases). Too bad because I always hesitate to recommend it. If it never crashed, and actually sorted directories alphabetically (how is this not possible?), I would love it even more.

Oh well, the 40% of the time it works it sure saves me a lot of time, and it's free... So I can't really complain.

Lejnoss
Apr 27, 2010
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Easy to use and nice looking. I like to use this one to use this one alongside with 7zip.

Ola Johansson
Apr 15, 2009
1

Thank you!!

This app was one of the major reasons i started this site all together :)

What is ExtractNow?

ExtractNow is a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple archives quickly and easily.

Why wear out your clicking finger extracting files one by one when you can extract at once? ExtractNow does a fine job of bundling compressed files and extracting their contents in one fell swoop. ExtractNow has a clean, well-designed and easy-to-use interface. To extract files, simply drag and drop them into the main program window, or right-click the files while in WindowsExplorer. ExtractNow supports the two most popular compression formats, ZIP and RAR, as well as a handful of other formats.

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ExtractNow information

  • Developed by

    US flagNathan Moinvaziri

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3

  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about ExtractNow, and it has gotten 29 likes

ExtractNow was added to AlternativeTo by spiral on Apr 14, 2009 and this page was last updated Sep 14, 2021.