RAR Expander Alternatives

RAR Expander is described as 'MacOSX program which extracts the files contained in RAR archives. It supports both single and multi-part archives, and has support for password-protected archives as well. It uses the official unRAR library internally so it is fully compatible with archives' and is an app in the file management category. There are seven alternatives to RAR Expander for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Haiku apps. The best RAR Expander alternative is The Unarchiver, which is free. Other great apps like RAR Expander are Unzip One, Unar, ArKiwi and RARLAB UnRAR.

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  1. The Unarchiver icon
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    The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR (including v5), 7-zip, Tar, Gzip and Bzip2. It will also open many older formats, such as StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ and...

    97 The Unarchiver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  2. Unzip One icon
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    A free, fast and secure archive manager by Trend?Micro—Unzip?One supports drag-and-drop, right-click extraction and safe preview for dozens of formats including ZIP, RAR, 7z, gzip, bzip2, ISO and more, on Windows 10+ and macOS 10.13+.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  3. Unar icon
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    The Unarchiver is a macOS app, but the underlying unarchiving code can run on other OSes, too. There is not yet any GUI app for any other OS, but there are two command-line tools, unar and lsar, which can be used on macOS, Windows and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. ArKiwi icon
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    A lightweight and very fast file archiver, where you can add, compress, extract, delete, password protect, and blazing fast search all your files.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  5. UnRAR is an application for extracting RAR archives, distributed by RARLAB, the makers of the commercial WinRAR archivers.

    8 RARLAB UnRAR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  6. Effective app designed to decompress archives, like RAR, Zip, 7z, Tar, Tgz, Cbz, Lzh, Lzma, Bzip, iso, HFS, VHD, etc. Supports over 50 kinds of archive files, as well as extract encrypted archives entirely.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. unrar (or unrar-free in some Linux distributions) is a free software version of the non-free unrar utility that exists on many GNU/Linux systems today. It uses the GPL'd UniquE RAR Library by Christian Scheurer and Johannes Winkelmann.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
     
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