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The Unarchiver

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...

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  • Free
  • Proprietary

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  • Mac
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  1.  Supports tar files
  2.  File Archiving

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Top Positive Comment
Paul
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Probably the best file archiver if you're on macOS! Apple already has a file archiver built into macOS, but it's not as powerful as The Unarchiver if you need more features, settings, and file formats support.

antonium
0

It's a good tool. I use it to unpack RAR archives on macOS.

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RemovedUser
-5

Mac already has a built-in application to extract archives. This utility is unnecessary.

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OmgItsTheSmartGuy
0

The Unarchiver feels more like an extension of Archive Utility than a standalone extractor app. It's minimal, and stays in the background. Just extract your files, and you're done. You won't even notice it's there. I like that. :D

nyeates
0

So much better than UnRarX that I was using. The unarchiver allows you to extract to a folder by default, and then to automatically open that folder. That is a huge time and effort saver for me!

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What is The Unarchiver?

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 ARC. It will even open other kinds of files, like ISO and BIN disc images, some Windows .EXE installers. The list is actually much longer - see the program homepage for the full list.

The Unarchiver also tries to detect and correctly handle the filename encoding in the archives it opens, allowing you to open files from every part of the world without getting garbled filenames.

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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about The Unarchiver, and it has gotten 248 likes

The Unarchiver was added to AlternativeTo by DaveOnCode on and this page was last updated . The Unarchiver is sometimes referred to as Unarchiver.