The Unarchiver Alternatives for Mac

Bandizip

Bandizip is a free Archiver for home and office. It handles the most popular compression formats, including Zip, 7z, and Rar files for free!. Bandizip supports for compression and extraction: Zip(z01), ZipX(zx01), TAR, TGZ, 7Z(7z.001), LZH, ISO, EXE(e01). And extraction only: RAR(part1.rar, r01), ACE, AES, ALZ, APK, ARJ, BH, BIN, BZ, BZ2, CAB, EGG, GZ, J2J, JAR, IMG, IPA, ISZ, LHA, LZMA, PMA, TBZ, TBZ2, TGZ, TLZ, TXZ, UDF, WAR, WIM, XPI, XZ, Z.

Free Mac Windows

Keka

Keka is a full featured file archiver, as easy as it can be. With Keka you can compress as many files as you want in a bunch of formats. Divide files and protect them with a password is now a kids game. Just drop the files you want to compress to the Keka icon in the Dock or the main window. Also Keka can extract lots of compressed files, from ZIP and 7Z to RAR archives, even parted ones.

Free Open Source Mac

Commander One

Commander One is dual-pane file manager for OS X created in Swift, which enables you to manage your files in the best possible way. You will get the dual-pane interface for easy moving and copying files from one place to another; multi-tab browsing for eliminating clutter; advanced search for locating files quickly; file operations queueing, hotkeys setup, ZIP support and much more.

Freemium Mac

WinZip

WinZip is a proprietary file archiver and compressor. It allows you to easily zip (compress) and unzip (decompress) files, encrypt zipped files, and email zipped files. WinZIP natively uses the ZIP and ZIPX formats but also has various levels of support for other archive formats. With just a click, open all major compression formats, including Zip, Zipx, RAR, 7z, TAR, GZIP, VHD, XZ, POSIX TAR and more.

Commercial Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad ReactOS

p7zip

p7zip is a port of the command line version of the 7-Zip file archiver to POSIX-conforming operating systems like Unix (Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Cygwin, AIX, ...), MacOS X and also for BeOS and Amiga.

Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD Haiku

B1 Free Archiver

B1 Free Archiver is a free multi-platform universal archiver. Currently it works on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android; moreover B1 Online Archiver allows you to uncompress .b1, zip, rar or .7z archive from your computer directly online. B1 Archiver supports most popular formats - zip, rar, b1, 7z. Although that’s enough for 99% of cases, we’re working on adding new formats and features to the list.

• Bundleware Be careful during the installation: https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/

Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... Android Tablet

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.

Free Mac Windows Linux Wine

BetterZip

Extract Only Files You Really Need. Create Archives. Update Archives. Protect Your Data. Open Archives Without Extracting (ZIP, SIT, TAR, GZip, BZip2, RAR, 7-Zip, CPIO, ARJ, LZH/LHA, JAR, WAR, CAB, ISO, CHM).

Commercial Mac

The Archive Browser

The Archive Browser is a program that lets you browse the contents of archives, as well as extract them. It will let you open files from inside archives, and lets you preview them using Quick Look.

Commercial Mac

Info-ZIP

Info-ZIP is a set of open-source software to handle ZIP archives. It has been in circulation since 1989. It consists of 4 separately-installable packages: the Zip and UnZip command-line utilities; and WiZ and MacZip, which are graphical user interfaces for archiving programs in Microsoft Windows and classic MacOS, respectively.

• Discontinued No updates since 2008

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Entropy

Easily create, open and preview popular archive files like ZIP, RAR, 7z, TGZ and more ( 30+ formats supported ).

• Discontinued No support for macOS Sierra. No Update since 13.12.2013 so since 3 years. See https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/entropy/id437151949

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

Unar

Unar is a command line tool for unarchiving .rar files. The code of this tool is that which underlays the unarchiving function of The Unarchiver GUI client.

Free Mac Windows Linux

UnRarX

If the command line is not your thing - heres a GUI front-end for unrar. Drag-and-Drop extraction. Built-in par2 recovery. Written by Peter Noriega.

Free Mac

Archiv

With Archiv your can create archives in different popular formats and extract them easily. Because of using native disk utilities of Mac, Archiv is very reliable and secure! Password protection make your archives also safe. Convenient Drag & Drop support! CREATING - 7z, Zip, Tar, Bzip2, Gzip - Dmg, Iso, Udf EXTRACTING - 7z, Rar, Zip, Tar, Bzip2, Gzip - Dmg, Iso, Udf UI - Intuitive user experience - Intelligent Drag & Drop support

Commercial Mac

Zipeg

Zipeg is a universal open source archive extractor that supports ZIP and RAR (among other archiving formats). With just a click you can open a file and see what is inside. It is incapable of compressing files, although it is able to extract compressed ones. Zipeg is built on top of the 7-Zip backend. Its user interface is implemented in Java and is open source. Zipeg automatically detects filenames in national alphabets (code pages) and correctly translates them to Unicode.

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.9.4, released in July 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Mac Windows

Google drive open source ZIP EXTRACTOR

Decompress ZIP files to Google Drive.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... Chrome OS Google Drive

SimplyRar

A small software utility that enables you to easily create RAR archives.

• Discontinued The Reflections Visual Multimedia website is down but last version of SimplyRar, 1.0.8, released in November 2008, can be still downloaded from MacUpdate.

Free Mac

RAR Expander

RAR Expander is a MacOSX program which extracts the files contained in RAR archives. It supports both single and multi-part archives, and has support for password-protected archives as well. It uses the official unRAR library internally so it is fully compatible with archives produced by WinRAR. RAR Expander also features AppleScript support, and includes a few useful example scripts for expanding multiple archives at once.

Free Open Source Mac

7zX

7zX is a file archiver with high compression ratio. Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. Usually 7zX compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format, and 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs. 7zX supports tar, zip, gzip, bzip2, UNIX compress, 7z, s7z and various kinds of segmented archives.

• Discontinued The official website is no longer available. Last version, 1.7.1, released in March 2008, can be still downloaded from MacUpdate.

Free Mac

Bandizip X

Bandizip X is an easy-to-use, reliable and fast zip unarchiver. This unarchiving program can unpack most popular compression formats created by WinZip (.zip), WinRAR (.rar), 7Zip (.7z) and more. Features: • Unzip archives with the most common formats: ZIP, ZIPX, RAR, 7Z, ALZ, EGG, CAB, BH, 001, ARJ, LHA, LZH, PMA, TAR, GZ, TGZ, BZ, BZ2, TBZ, TBZ2, XZ, TXZ, LZMA, TLZ, Z, JAR, WAR, APK, IPA, XPI, IMG, and ISO.

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated, but last version, 1.2.4, released in May 2013, can be still bought from the AppStore and it's reportedly still working.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

CZIP

CZIP let you create and secure your archives with Bitcoin and Altcoins payments. A file encryption tool which creates encrypted archives of arbitrary files and folders, that can be decrypted only from cryptocurrencies payments. Sell & Buy archives using Bitcoin and up to 11 altcoins: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dash, Ripple, Dogecoin, Monero, Bitcoin Cash, Blackcoin, Vertcoin, Peercoin, Namecoin.

Free Mac Windows Linux

Springy

Springy is a simple to use, yet powerful archiving and compression utility for Mac OS X. Springy integrates seamlessly with the Finder and includes some very useful features. Springy supports all most widely used archiving and compression formats: ZIP, RAR, TAR, 7-ZIP, PAX, CPIO, CPGZ, GZIP, BZIP2, UNIX Compress, SIT, JAR, DMG and ISO disk images and some more.

• Discontinued Springy is deprecated.

Commercial Mac

Archiver

Archiver (formerly known as Rucksack) is a must-have tool for anyone working with archives. Open all popular archive formats including RAR, StuffIt, 7zip, and of course Zip. Safely backup your files with Archiver built-in encryption support. And convert easily between archive formats, such as from RAR to Zip. Archiver supports the following formats: Zip RAR (rar, r00, r01, r02, ...)[read only] 7zip (7z, 7z.001, 7z.002, ...

Commercial Mac

GUI Tar

During the command-line era of computing, archiving files involved cryptic commands such as tar -xvf somefile.tar. However, since those days, the masses have come to use computers, and they expect an easy to use system with graphical elements and interaction. The days of the command-line interface are distant, and expecting the common user to resort to those older methods is normally out of the question. This is where GUI Tar steps in.

Free Mac

RarMachine

RarMachine is a powerful RAR archive manager, surely the simplest and most integrated for Mac OS X. You can use it to compress and extract all Rar files downloaded from the internet or compressed on a PC with the power advantage of your Mac System.

• Discontinued Homepage & author not available.

Commercial Mac