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Free WinRAR Alternatives

The best free alternative to WinRAR is 7-Zip, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to WinRAR and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to WinRAR are PeaZip, Bandizip, The Unarchiver and IZArc.

WinRAR alternatives are mainly File Archivers but may also be File Compressors or File Managers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of WinRAR.
This page was last updated May 3, 2022
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With over 500 million users worldwide, WinRAR is the world’s most popular compression tool!

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  1. 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.

    7-Zip vs WinRAR opinions
    Almost everyone thinks 7-Zip is a great alternative to WinRAR.
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    KuboFHromoslav

    7-Zip is highly efficient, open source archiver.

    Top positive comment  about 5 years ago
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    williambrown

    It is free, works very good and open more kind of files

    Top positive comment  over 4 years ago
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    whatinthetech

    It is free and Open Source!

    Positive comment • about 2 months ago
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    I prefer 7zip because it has much more feature than winrar but stays really simple to use

    Positive comment • 8 months ago
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    zokris

    7-Zip "Ultra" mode has better compression than WinRAR's "Best" mode. Also, it's Free and Open Source whereas WinRAR is proprietary.

    Positive comment • about 1 year ago
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    Faster, lightweight, better compression, no ads and FREE!

    Positive comment • over 1 year ago
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    Does the same things but does better

    Positive comment • over 1 year ago
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  2. 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.

    PeaZip vs WinRAR opinions
    Almost everyone thinks PeaZip is a great alternative to WinRAR.
    don1

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

    Positive comment • over 5 years ago
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    Its basically a de-uglified 7-zip, support various compression formats and has its own compression format PEA (pack encrypt and autenticate) the only cons it has are 1. it takes longer than other apps to open (its not the compression time thats slow its the app opening) 2.it sometimes gives you an error when extracting files and 3. you have to delete ALL of its related files in regedit otherwise it will still be classified as an option to open archived files even after deleting

    Positive comment • almost 3 years ago
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    classic57

    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...

    Positive comment • over 3 years ago
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    rickysantoso

    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 • almost 4 years ago
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  4. Bandizip is a powerful archiver which provides an ultrafast processing speed and convenient features. Available free of charge, and its paid editions support a variety of advanced features.

    Bandizip vs WinRAR opinions
    Most users think Bandizip is a great alternative to WinRAR.
    ichimitch

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

    Positive comment • 8 months ago
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    Really fasttttttt to compress

    Positive comment • over 2 years ago
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    Tottaly free, support basically every type of compressed file, is customizable, multi language, always updating, and have other cool things to help you

    Positive comment • almost 3 years ago
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    yarko

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

    Positive comment • over 3 years ago
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  5. The Unarchiver

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    • Free • Proprietary
    • Mac

    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.

    The Unarchiver vs WinRAR opinions
    Some users think The Unarchiver is a great alternative to WinRAR, some don't.

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

    Negative comment • over 6 years ago
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    Unarchiver does not show you the files without extracting them.

    Negative comment • over 2 years ago
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  6. IZArc

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    • Free • Proprietary
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad

    Zip Utility - NEWS since - "Version 4.2 = NO MORE ADWARE. IZARC INSTALLER IS COMPLETELY ADWARE FREE" No bundleware that is showing in description.

    Bundleware

    Most users think IZArc is a great alternative to WinRAR.

  8. p7zip

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    • Free • Open Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • BSD
    • Haiku

    p7zip is a port of the command line version of the 7-Zip file archiver to POSIX-conforming operating systems like Unix (Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Cygwin, AIX, ...), MacOS X and also for BeOS and Amiga.

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  9. File Roller

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    • Free • Open Source
    • Linux
    • GNOME

    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.

    File Roller vs WinRAR opinions
    This alternative is disputed. File Roller is still a legitimate alternative to WinRAR, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    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 • over 4 years ago
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    Capable of almost nothing, and certainly does not offer the feature range of winrar.

    Negative comment • over 1 year ago
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  10. FreeArc

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    • Free • Open Source
    • Windows
    • Linux

    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.

    Discontinued

    Latest alpha version from August 2012 - http://freearc.org/history/changelog_full.htm

  11. B1 Free Archiver

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    • Free • Proprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet

    B1 Free Archiver is a free multi-platform universal archiver. Currently it works on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android; moreover B1 Online Archiver allows you to uncompress .b1, zip, rar or .7z archive from your computer directly online.

    B1 Free Archiver vs WinRAR opinions
    Most users think B1 Free Archiver is a great alternative to WinRAR.

    it does not uncompress files more than 500MB

    Negative comment • almost 7 years ago
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  12. Ark

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    • Free • Open Source
    • Linux
    • KDE

    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).

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