WinRAR
With over 500 million users worldwide, WinRAR is the world’s most popular compression tool!
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD
- ReactOS
Features
- File Compression
- File Archiving
- Shell integration
- AES-256 Encryption
- Command line interface
- Lightweight
- Windows Explorer Extension
- Works Offline
- Ad-free
- Encrypted Backup
- Dark Mode
- Privacy focused
- No registration required
- Supports Zip files
- Supports RAR files
WinRAR News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- sebbo76 liked WinRAR
- SV1987 reviewed WinRAR
In Russia, and not only, this piece of software was abused by more cracks and serials than any other in existence. Including "Photoshop" even. However, I only used it for a while. Then I came to "Haozip". Later on to something else. These days I am using "Haozip" again. I don't know why I dumped it, as it's a copy of "Winrar" with some extra functions. Also, the best % compressor is TAR.XZ. Although slow. LZ4 is very fast. With results much better than ZIP. RAR or ZIP are nothing in...
- SV1987 reviewed WinRAR
In Russia, and not only, this piece of software was abused by more cracks and serials than any other in existence. Including "Photoshop" even. However, I only used it for a while. Then I came to "Haozip". Later on to something else. These days I am using "Haozip" again. I don't know why I dumped it, as it's a copy of "Winrar" with some extra functions. Also, the best % compressor is TAR.XZ. Although slow. LZ4 is very fast. With results much better than ZIP. RAR or ZIP are nothing in...
- SV1987 replied to a comment / review on WinRAR
WinRAR information
What is WinRAR?
With over 500 million users worldwide, WinRAR is the world’s most popular compression tool!
There is no better way to compress files for efficient and secure file transfer. Providing fast email transmission and well-organized data storage options, WinRAR also offers solutions for users working in all industries and sectors.
WinRAR is a powerful archiver extractor tool, and can open all popular file formats.
RAR and WinRAR are Windows 10 (TM) compatible; available in over 50 languages and in both 32-bit and 64-bit; compatible with several operating systems (OS), and it is the only compression software that can work with Unicode.
Comments and Reviews
He always ask you to pay for it... and you always ignore it. Forgive us WinRar.
As a windows user, I love this piece of software. I don't use any other unzipping software other than just this. Support for different file types and very speedy in its unzipping, of course depending on the file size.
I like the checksum and recovery. Don't like the price.
I mean, they don't even force you to pay it, but OK.
Reply written Mar 3, 2019
In Russia, and not only, this piece of software was abused by more cracks and serials than any other in existence. Including "Photoshop" even. However, I only used it for a while. Then I came to "Haozip". Later on to something else. These days I am using "Haozip" again. I don't know why I dumped it, as it's a copy of "Winrar" with some extra functions. Also, the best % compressor is TAR.XZ. Although slow. LZ4 is very fast. With results much better than ZIP. RAR or ZIP are nothing in comparison. There is also LZTURBO, which could be the fastest of all. I have not yet tested it. See for yourself. Also, ARC ("Freearc") is powerful for its use of special modules and preprocessing files. Gives much better results than "Winrar". But for the sake of piracy and availability none of these algos or programs ever gained the popularity of "Winrar". Pirates and torrents totally made that program. So much that it survived decades. Because if you used it when you were 12, you would be using it still when you were 35.
I use it because it is lean and fast. There are some free products out there that as good as WinRAR, but they have prehistoric, ugly UIs. With WinRAR, you can actually use pretty good skins to replace outdated default one.
A classic program with flexible settings and all the functions you need. But it's paid and promotes you to buy license at every open and therefore it's proprietary. There are many good free alternatives, so use them unless you need a specific things that WinRar does better. Also personally I don't like overloaded interface, and some other soft like 7zip compress better.
They can't be trusted.
In the 2000s they were completely incompetent or malicious. Passwords are cracked in 1 second using special programs.
They didn't say anything about why or how it happened.
Sue them if you had a paid 3.* version and wasn't aware about that.
I wouldn't trust any archiver to encrypt anything. There are other special means for this. WinAES_0.2.4_x86, etc.
Reply written Sep 20, 2024