Open Source WinRAR Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to WinRAR for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Windows alternative is 7-Zip. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to WinRAR and 18 are open source and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Windows alternatives to WinRAR are PeaZip, NanaZip, FreeArc and 7-Zip ZS.

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  1. 7-Zip icon
     4792 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.

    114 7-Zip alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • ReactOS
     
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  2. PeaZip icon
     675 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.

    98 PeaZip alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
     
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  3. FreeArc icon
     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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Ark icon
     25 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).

    39 Ark alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • Windows
     
  5. p7zip icon
     29 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  6. 7z SFX-Creator icon
     42 likes

    A simple and easy to use GUI based on 7zip for creating self-extracting archives and self-extracting installers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  7. Rapidgzip icon
     1 like

    Rapidgzip: Parallelized Decompression of Gzip Files with Support for Fast Random Access.

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8. A new rewritten Alternative for Free ARC by Bulat Ziganshin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Info-ZIP icon
     10 likes

    Info-ZIP is a set of open-source software to handle ZIP archives. It has been in circulation since 1989. It consists of 4 separately-installable packages: the Zip and UnZip command-line utilities; and WiZ and MacZip, which are graphical user interfaces for archiving programs in...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. ArcThemAll! icon
     10 likes

    A simple software to multiple compress files and folders. ArcThemAll provides compression and extraction of batches of multiple folders or files with simple drag&drop loading. It includes an intelligent UPX compression mode, the support to self-extracting archives creation...

    80 ArcThemAll! alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
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