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. 360 ZIP icon
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    360 Zip is a free, high-speed compression software that is available for Windows. It is a good choice for anyone who needs to compress or decompress files.

    51 360 ZIP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. AZip icon
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    AZip is a free Zip Archive Manager with unique features such as: built-in content Search, smart archive Update, archive Recompression.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. zpaq icon
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    zpaq is a free and open source incremental, journaling command-line archiver for Windows, Linux and Mac OS/X.

    33 zpaq alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. ZipGenius icon
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    ZipGenius: the free and powerful archive manager for Windows.

    Running out of hard disk space? Documents spread over you entire system? Did you get a .zip or .rar file and you dont know what to do?

    There is only one answer: ZipGenius!

    ZipGenius can handle more than 20 compresse.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Use MacZip is new way of work efficiently. Extraction formats supported: 7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ, LZIP, ACE, ISO, CAB, PAX, JAR, AR, CPIO and more.

    54 Oka Unarchiver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    is a small perl script which makes extraction of any archive files a bit easier. It support several compressors and archiver programs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Terminal
    • Xfce
     
  7. KGB Archiver icon
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    KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievably high compression rate. Unfortunately, in spite of its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (I recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum).

    78 KGB Archiver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. 7zX icon
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    7zX is a file archiver with high compression ratio. Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    ArchiDroid is an easy to use archive manager.

    It can:

    1. Unpacking of RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZIP (gz), BZIP2 (bz2), tar.bz2, tar.gz and 7ZIP* (7z) archives.
    2. Unpacking of encrypted ZIP and RAR (password protected) archives.
    3. Support of multi-volume (split) RAR archives.
    4. In som.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  10. TC4Shell icon
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    TC4Shell is a file archive tool that supports a huge array of archive formats and integrates with Windows Explorer for the utmost simplicity.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. ExtractNow icon
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    ExtractNow is a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple archives quickly and easily.

    37 ExtractNow alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
     
  12. BitZipper icon
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    Unzip WinZip, WinRAR, WinAce and many other types of archives as easy as 1-2-3! If you download files from the Internet, BitZipper is what you need to access them.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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