The Best Paid WinRAR AlternativesTop File Archivers & File Compressors like WinRAR

The best paid alternative to WinRAR is WinZip. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to WinRAR and many of them is paid so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting paid alternatives to WinRAR are BetterZip, PowerArchiver, WinArchiver and Bandizip X.

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  1. WinZip icon
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    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.

    106 WinZip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • ReactOS
     
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  2. BetterZip icon
     34 likes

    Supports creating and extracting over 30 archive formats, enables archive editing, strong AES-256 encryption, password management, Finder and sharing integration, preview without extraction, Windows compatibility features, ePub modification, and split file joining.

    79 BetterZip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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  3. PowerArchiver icon
     32 likes

    PowerArchiver is a proprietary file archiver for Microsoft Windows. It supports full read-write access to several different archive formats, including ZIP, 7z and Tar. Additionally, read-only (decompression) support includes RAR, ACE and various disk image formats.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. WinArchiver icon
     8 likes

    WinArchiver is a powerful archive utility, which can open, create, and manage archive files. It supports almost all archive formats, including zip, rar, 7z, iso, and other popular formats. WinArchiver can also mount the archive to a virtual drive without extraction.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Bandizip X icon
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    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,.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. Entropy icon
     9 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. PKZIP icon
     1 like

    PKZIP by PKWARE is the gold standard in data compression. PKZIP provides exceptional performance and ease of use across all enterprise operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Unarchiver icon
     2 likes

    UnZip files from many other applications:

    ? In Mail: long press attachment ? In ? DropBox: press [->] button. ? In Safari: simply press on link to zip or RAR file. ? And in all other.

    ?Features?

    ? File Manager

    • Folders support
    • Refresh, Rename, Copy, Move, Delete files .

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • HP webOS
    • iPad
     
  9. ZipX icon
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    ZipX is a professional, full-featured compression and extraction tool. It help you to Browse, Extract, Create, Modify file archives, view files in archives, support drag and drop files or folders from/to Finder.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. SecureZIP icon
     3 likes

    SecureZIP® is an enterprise-grade, flexible encryption solution that enables organizations of all kinds to implement persistent data protection while gaining visibility into where files are used, shared, and stored.

    21 SecureZIP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Archiver icon
     9 likes

    ?? Extract Archives: So you downloaded this file you can't open? Don't be fooled by the name — Archiver is a highly versatile unarchiver that can unpack pretty much any archive you throw at it. With Archiver, you can extract RAR, StuffIt, Zip, 7zip and many more popular...

    85 Archiver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  12.  Like

    iPackr is a powerful compressed archives manager.

    • Compress 7z and zip archives
    • Decompress 7z, zip, rar, gz and bz2 archives
    • Superb speed benefited by 64-bit computing power
    • Full support of international file names (especially Chinese, Japanese and Korean file names creat.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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