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. ZipZip.pro icon
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    The service allows you to work with archives. You can create an archive from multiple files or extract a file from an existing archive. All popular formats are supported for extraction, and 7zip and zip formats for creating new archives.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • ZipZip.pro is the most popular SaaS alternative to WinRAR.

    • ZipZip.pro is Free and ProprietaryWinRAR is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. KuaiZip icon
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    KuaiZip is a free, convenient, fast compressor and decompressor, with advanced compression technology and a proprietary of compression format(KZ). KZ is a high ratio and fast format. KuaiZip support more than 40 compression formats such as RAR,ZIP,7Z etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued
    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Oka Files is a comprehensive document management application that integrates file browsing, video playback, photo browsing, text editing, and audio recording.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. Express Zip icon
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    Express Zip is one of the most stable, easy-to-use and comprehensive file archive and compression tools available. Create, manage and extract zipped files and folders. Reduce file space needed by zipping big files before sending them.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    Archive Utility is part of MacOS and supports ZIP, GZIP, and BZIP2 for expansion and CPGZ, CPIO, and ZIP formats for compression.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    AppCompactor allows you to easily compress applications to decrease size on disk and increase performance when running from slow media, like flash drives. It's packaged as a portable app, so you can work with your apps anywhere.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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    Not used for the same purpose.

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    • PortableApps.com AppCompactor is Free and Open SourceWinRAR is Freemium and Proprietary
  7. BreeZip icon
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    BreeZip is a free tool to "unarchive" many different kinds of archive files - an alternative to winrar free on Windows 10. It will open common formats such as ZIP, RAR, 7-Zip, TAR, Gzip and more.

    95 BreeZip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. GUI Tar icon
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    During the command-line era of computing, archiving files involved cryptic commands such as tar -xvf somefile.tar. However, since those days, the masses have come to use computers, and they expect an easy to use system with graphical elements and interaction.

    74 GUI Tar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. UnRarX icon
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    If the command line is not your thing - heres a GUI front-end for unrar. Drag-and-Drop extraction. Built-in par2 recovery. Written by Peter Noriega.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. WinAce icon
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    WinAce is not just another archiving shell. With it's own powerful compression format ACE and built-in support for other popular compression types like ZIP, RAR and MS-CAB (to name a few), WinAce could actually become the only archiver you need.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. pigz icon
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    pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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