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The Unarchiver

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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...

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  • FreeProprietary

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  • Mac
3.8 / 5 Avg rating (5)
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  1.  Supports tar files
  2.  File Archiving

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The Unarchiver information

  • Developed by

    MacPaw
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.8
  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about The Unarchiver, and it has gotten 245 likes

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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Paul
  
Top positive commentOct 13, 2023

Probably the best file archiver if you're on macOS! Apple already has a file archiver built into macOS, but it's not as powerful as The Unarchiver if you need more features, settings, and file formats support.

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antonium
  
Positive commentJun 28, 2020

It's a good tool. I use it to unpack RAR archives on macOS.

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RemovedUser
  
Negative commentNov 10, 2019

Mac already has a built-in application to extract archives. This utility is unnecessary.

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OmgItsTheSmartGuy
  
Positive commentJul 17, 2011

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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nyeates
  
Positive commentMay 5, 2010

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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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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