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, Mac, Windows, Android and Android + Open Source. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to WinRAR.
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  1. SecureZIP icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • SecureZIP is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to WinRAR.

    • SecureZIP is Paid and ProprietaryWinRAR is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Hamster ZIP Archiver is a powerful and modern archival program that allows users to easily compress and open files from any archive.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Archiver icon
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    ?? 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...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Squeeze icon
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    Default archive manager for xfce. It can be used in ubuntu with perfect integration on pcman-fm

    75 Squeeze alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  5. Ashampoo ZIP icon
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    Put an end to format confusion with a click! ZIP, RAR, TAR, CAB and many more - Ashampoo ZIP opens your files fast and reliably and reassembles multi-part volumes.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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.
    23 Ipackr alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. Zipeg icon
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    Zipeg is a universal open source archive extractor that supports ZIP and RAR (among other archiving formats). With just a click you can open a file and see what is inside.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. TUGZip icon
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    TUGZip is a powerful freeware archiving utility for Windows that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files, as well as very powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.

    81 TUGZip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Bitser icon
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    Bitser is free Windows zip software for managing archives and backups. It supports ZIP, ZIPX, 7Z, RAR, ISO, MSI, VHD, GZIP, BZIP2,TAR, LZMA, LZMA2, NTFS, FAT, MBR, SquashFS, CramFS, MSLZ, CAB, CPIO, DEB, LZH, NSIS, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR, XZ, Z.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    KingshiperZip allows you to unzip files in WinZip, RAR, and 7z formats. It is a clean, secure, and ad-free software that offers compression options for images, videos, audio, GIFs, PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel files.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. iZip icon
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    iZip can manage ZIP, ZIPX, RAR, TAR, 7ZIP and other compressed files on Mac. It allows to create, extract and visualize archives without extracting them.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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