The Unarchiver

    • Free • Proprietary
    • Mac
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    What is The Unarchiver?

    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.
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    • Top positive comment  over 1 year ago • 0 replies
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    It's a good tool. I use it to unpack RAR archives on macOS.

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    • Top positive comment  about 10 years ago • 0 replies
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    The Unarchiver feels more like an extension of Archive Utility than a standalone extractor app. It's minimal, and stays in the background. Just extract your files, and you're done. You won't even notice it's there. I like that. :D

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    • Top negative comment  almost 2 years ago • 0 replies
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    Mac already has a built-in application to extract archives. This utility is unnecessary.

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    • Positive comment • over 11 years ago • 0 replies
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    So much better than UnRarX that I was using. The unarchiver allows you to extract to a folder by default, and then to automatically open that folder. That is a huge time and effort saver for me!

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    Tags

    • unrar
    • decompression
    • archive-extractor
    • tar
    • unzip

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    Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about The Unarchiver, and it has gotten 241 likes

    • Developed by MacPaw
    • Proprietary and Free product.
    • Average rating of 3.5
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    The Unarchiver was added to AlternativeTo by DaveOnCode on Apr 7, 2009 and this page was last updated Sep 14, 2021. The Unarchiver is sometimes referred to as Unarchiver.

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