Unarchiver

Open any archive in seconds

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File storage and sharing apps•Data analysis tools

The Unarchiver is a proprietary freeware data decompression utility, which supports more formats than Archive Utility (formerly known as BOMArchiveHelper), the built-in archive unpacker program in macOS. It can also handle filenames in various character encodings, created using operating system versions that use those character encodings.

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This is the 2nd launch from Unarchiver. View more

The Unarchiver 4.0

Open any archive in seconds

The Unarchiver is the only app you need to open RAR on Mac. It’s times more powerful than the native macOS utility and supports infinitely more archive formats.

Launch tags:

Mac•Productivity

Launch Team

Chris Messina

Raycast

Top Hunter

Hunter

Another one of those utilities I've used for ages and was getting stale. Nice to see that it'll continue being maintained by MacPaw.

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7yr ago

Julia Petryk

SpyBuster

Maker

@chrismessina it's definitely in great and loving hands :)

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7yr ago

Bill Xiong

@chrismessina @ua_philka Surely you mean great and loving paws.

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7yr ago

Binoy Xavier Joy

@chrismessina @ua_philka This and the AppCleaner app are among the first set of apps I download on any fresh macOS install these days. The latter being not updated and sporting an old UI, I was about to ping MacPaw to ask if they'd consider grabbing that app too. Then I discovered their CleanMyMac 3 already include such a feature 😛 https://macpaw.com/support/clean...

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7yr ago

Oleg Stukalenko

MacPaw

Maker

Hey everybody, @chrismessina, thanks for hunting The Unarchiver. It’s a big honor and responsibility for us to continue the development of a product with such history. While working on the update we tried to balance its qualities like speed and unobtrusiveness, but make it a little bit more modern. I am super excited to finally deliver a proper refresh for The Unarchiver. Hope you like the results and we’d be glad to hear from you.

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7yr ago

Edelheid

@dc_devotion Congratulations on the launch! Is there any notable difference feature-wise between standalone and MAS? Other than seemingly needing to manually set via contextual menu for the MAS version.

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7yr ago

Oleg Stukalenko

MacPaw

Maker

@onelargetea Thanks! Yep, you're right - MAS version requires you to do some manual work, otherwise they pretty much the same.

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7yr ago

Ton

@chrismessina @dc_devotion I'm not quite sure what the UI refresh is, since I stopped using The Unarchiver long ago, but I would like to know what features will be added to make The Unarchiver stand out in the crowd again. Any planned support for contextual menu operation and/or services? Watch folders? Partial uncompression (so the zipped file won't be deleted when the archive is uncomplete)? Internal checks for malicious threats inside archives?

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7yr ago

Oleg Stukalenko

MacPaw

Maker

@t55 Thanks for sharing your ideas and and we'd love to hear more on how you think The Unarchiver should be different. As of now we've been focusing on what The Unarchiver does best - being a single tool you need to open any archive hassle free.

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7yr ago

Ton

@dc_devotion There's a couple of Mac tools that are great at that: open any archive hassle free. TU is free, so that's a definite plus, but an app like Keka has the same qualities, is extremely fast and compresses files too. The Unarchiver can use some of the playfulness of Gemini or Clean My Mac. That, and a bunch of new functionalities. Like the ones I mentioned above. Or something cool like remembering the password used to unlock the archive.

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7yr ago