WinRAR AlternativesTop File Archivers & File Compressors like WinRAR

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   7-Zip

    4878 likes

   Feature-rich archiving software with top-tier compression in 7z, integration in Windows Shell, AES-256 encryption, and multi-format support, including TAR, ZIP, RAR. Offers strong file management tools and a command line version for Linux/Unix systems.

   129 7-Zip alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (LGPL-2.1)

   Application typeApplication types

   • File Archiver
   • File Compressor

   Origin

   • Russia

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • PortableApps.com
   • ReactOS
   • Arch Linux

   • Russia

   

   

   

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   Top Positive Comment by KuboFHromoslav · May 15, 2017

   7-Zip is highly efficient, open source archiver.

   Positive comment by Alex Rumbera · Oct 9, 2024

   7-Zip offers open-source and free usage, better compression, wider format support, more features like self-extracting archives, solid compression, and a powerful command-line interface, and regular updates. 7-Zip often delivers better performance

   Positive comment by Jason Brown · Aug 22, 2023

   Open-source. Huge eyes-on code audience. Much, much simpler for new users.

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   • 7-Zip is Free and Open SourceWinRAR is Freemium and Proprietary
   • 7-Zip is Security-focusedWinRAR is not according to our users
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   PeaZip

    694 likes

   PeaZip is free file archiver utility, based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, FreeArc, PAQ, and PEA projects, for Linux, macOS and Windows.

   107 PeaZip alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (LGPL-3.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • File Archiver
   • File Compressor

   Origin

   • Italy
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Chrome OS
   • BSD
   • Flathub
   • PortableApps.com

   • Italy
   • EU

   

   

   

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   Positive comment by don1 · Feb 19, 2017

   It is fast, has many file extensions and always updated.

   Positive comment by Ricky Santoso · Jul 5, 2018

   I think the extract time faster than winrar, also support many file extensions. One of the lightest file manager & archiver that I use.

   Positive comment by G Downs · Feb 3, 2019

   I've been using PeaZip for about 8 years and during that time I've found it to be rock-solid. I've tried 7Zip and a few others during that time but keep coming back to PeaZip. On installation, PeaZip is vastly customizable and covers all the major archive formats that most people are going to use...

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   • PeaZip is Free and Open SourceWinRAR is Freemium and Proprietary
   • PeaZip is CustomizableWinRAR is not according to our users
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   NanaZip

    75 likes

   NanaZip is an open source file archiver intended for the modern Windows experience, forked from the source code of well-known open source file archiver 7-Zip.

   101 NanaZip alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • File Archiver
   • File Compressor

   Origin

   • China

   Platforms

   • Windows

   • China

   

   

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   WinZip

   A versatile file archiver offering compression and decompression, native ZIP/ZIPX support, encryption, and extensive sharing via email, cloud, social media, integrating with various platforms and formats.

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   Bandizip

    172 likes

   Enables ultrafast compression and decompression of over 30 formats, supports multi-core optimization, AES256 encryption, ZIP repair, selective extraction, password management, antimalware scans, image previews, archive integrity checks, and Windows integration.

   98 Bandizip alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application typeApplication types

   • File Archiver
   • File Compressor

   Origin

   • South Korea

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows

   • South Korea

   

   

   

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   Positive comment by yarko · Dec 23, 2018

   Fast, modern, with cool features and FREE! Highly reccomended!

   Positive comment by ichimitch · Nov 14, 2021

   Supports compressing and decompressing a wide variety of formats and itegrates with the Windows context menu

   Positive comment by Guest · Nov 11, 2019

   Really fasttttttt to compress

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   • Bandizip is Freemium and ProprietaryWinRAR is also Freemium and Proprietary
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   Portable Secret

    11 likes

   Creates a single HTML file containing encrypted content and decryption logic, supporting text and file attachments, AES-GCM encryption, Argon2id key derivation, browser-based decryption, password hints, offline access, and open-source operation.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Online

   • United States

   

   

   

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   The Unarchiver

    249 likes

   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...

   105 The Unarchiver alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • File Archiver

   Origin

   • Ukraine

   Platforms

   • Mac

   • Ukraine

   

   

   

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   Negative comment by Guest · Feb 12, 2016

   Simple. In Winrar, you can see in the program, and copy files inside. You can only take out files with this.

   Negative comment by maurosoft391 · Jul 15, 2023

   not compatible with Windows

   Negative comment by Guest · Feb 29, 2020

   Unarchiver does not show you the files without extracting them.

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   • The Unarchiver is Free and ProprietaryWinRAR is Freemium and Proprietary
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    FreeArc

     52 likes

    FreeArc is a free and open source file archiver developed by Bulat Ziganshin. It uses LZMA, PPMD, TrueAudio and GRzip algorithms with automatic switching by file type, and also uses set of filters—for instance it can remove repetitions from text.

    82 FreeArc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application typeApplication types

    • File Archiver
    • File Compressor

    Origin

    • Russia

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    • Russia

    

    

    

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    Ark

     27 likes

    Ark is a program for viewing, extracting, creating and modifying archives. Ark can handle various archive formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar, 7zip, xz, rpm, cab and deb (support for certain archive formats depend on the appropriate command-line programs being installed).

    46 Ark alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application typeApplication types

    • File Archiver
    • File Compressor

    Origin

    • Germany
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • Windows

    • Germany
    • EU

    

    

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    File Roller

     85 likes

    File Roller is the archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment. It can extract, view, create and modify archives. File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.

    92 File Roller alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application typeApplication types

    • File Archiver
    • File Compressor

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Linux Mobile

    • United States

    

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    Negative comment by Guest · Nov 19, 2017

    Can't even extract multi-part archives. Can't show CRC or anything at all. Suprised this poor app has that high votes.

    Negative comment by Guest · Jan 3, 2021

    Capable of almost nothing, and certainly does not offer the feature range of winrar.

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    • File Roller is Free and Open SourceWinRAR is Freemium and Proprietary
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    7-Zip ZS

     10 likes

    7-Zip with support for Zstandard, Brotli, Lz4, Lz5 and Lizard Compression. Open source under LGPL-2.1 license.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application typeApplication types

    • File Archiver
    • File Compressor

    Origin

    • Germany
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Windows

    • Germany
    • EU

    

    

    

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    WinZip

     74 likes

    A versatile file archiver offering compression and decompression, native ZIP/ZIPX support, encryption, and extensive sharing via email, cloud, social media, integrating with various platforms and formats.

    112 WinZip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application typeApplication types

    • File Archiver
    • File Compressor

    Origin

    • Canada

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • ReactOS

    • Canada

    

    

    

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    Positive comment by Guest · Jan 17, 2020

    similar and friendly interface.. cool!

    Positive comment by Guest · Nov 22, 2019

    The most similar interface to WinRar.

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    • WinZip is Paid and ProprietaryWinRAR is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Explzh for Windows

     5 likes

    Explzh for Windows is a file operation tool created with the concept of treating archive files, CD-ROM virtual disk images (ISO-9660 / ISO-13346), and FTP hosts as virtual folders and handling them like an explorer.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application typeApplication types

    • File Archiver
    • File Compressor

    Origin

    • Japan

    Platforms

    • Windows

    • Japan

    

    

    

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