WinRAR Alternatives

WinRAR is described as 'Compress and encrypt files with versatile software, supporting multiple formats for secure data transfer and offering efficient storage options' and is a leading File Archiver in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to WinRAR for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best WinRAR alternative is 7-Zip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WinRAR are PeaZip, WinZip, Bandizip and NanaZip.

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WinRAR alternatives are mainly File Archivers, but if you're looking for File Compressors or File Managers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Linux, Chrome OS, Windows + Free, Mac, Free and Android. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to WinRAR.
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  1. 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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    BetterZip vs WinRAR Comments
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    Positive
    0

    Great, works well, fast, highly configurable and no bloatware!!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • BetterZip is Paid and ProprietaryWinRAR is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. 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

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  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. File Roller icon
     83 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.

    88 File Roller alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
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    File Roller vs WinRAR Comments
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    Negative
    7

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

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
    0

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

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • File Roller is Free and Open SourceWinRAR is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. Zarchiver icon
     23 likes

    ZArchiver - program to manage archives in android. The program has a simple and functional interface. It lets you create 7z (7zip), zip, bzip2 (bz2), gzip (gz), XZ, tar archives, decompress 7z (7zip), zip, rar, bzip2, gzip, XZ, iso, tar, arj.

    53 Zarchiver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
     
  6. Xarchiver icon
     28 likes

    Xarchiver is a lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with the GTK+2 toolkit. It was developed with a simple GUI which that could be used with any desktop environment and would operate using the command line rather than API calls.

    88 Xarchiver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
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    B1 Free Archiver vs WinRAR Comments
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    Negative
    -2

    it does not uncompress files more than 500MB

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • B1 Free Archiver is Free and ProprietaryWinRAR is Freemium and Proprietary
  8. 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
     
  9. Bandizip X icon
     1 like

    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,.

    72 Bandizip X alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. StuffIt icon
     23 likes

    StuffIt is the right tool for people who just need very basic compression and expansion features. StuffIt has some great features that help you manage your workflow quickly and efficiently. Create both Zip and StuffIt X archives with or without encryption, and open compressed or...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  11. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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