Unar AlternativesFile Archivers and other similar apps like Unar

Unar is described as 'The Unarchiver is a macOS app, but the underlying unarchiving code can run on other OSes, too. There is not yet any GUI app for any other OS, but there are two command-line tools, unar and lsar, which can be used on macOS, Windows and Linux' and is a File Archiver in the file management category. There are eight alternatives to Unar for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Haiku apps. The best Unar alternative is The Unarchiver, which is free. Other great apps like Unar are Arclite Pro, Unzip One, ArKiwi and RAR Expander.

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  1. The Unarchiver icon
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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...

    97 The Unarchiver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. Arclite Pro icon
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    Open and explore ZIP, 7z, RAR, and many more archives without extracting. Create and edit archives with encryption and advanced compression. Open, search, and share files directly from the archive.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. Unzip One icon
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    A free, fast and secure archive manager by Trend?Micro—Unzip?One supports drag-and-drop, right-click extraction and safe preview for dozens of formats including ZIP, RAR, 7z, gzip, bzip2, ISO and more, on Windows 10+ and macOS 10.13+.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  4. ArKiwi icon
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    A lightweight and very fast file archiver, where you can add, compress, extract, delete, password protect, and blazing fast search all your files.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. RAR Expander icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. UnRAR is an application for extracting RAR archives, distributed by RARLAB, the makers of the commercial WinRAR archivers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  7. unrar (or unrar-free in some Linux distributions) is a free software version of the non-free unrar utility that exists on many GNU/Linux systems today. It uses the GPL'd UniquE RAR Library by Christian Scheurer and Johannes Winkelmann.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
     
  8. Effective app designed to decompress archives, like RAR, Zip, 7z, Tar, Tgz, Cbz, Lzh, Lzma, Bzip, iso, HFS, VHD, etc. Supports over 50 kinds of archive files, as well as extract encrypted archives entirely.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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