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About Archive Extractor
Archive Extractor is an online tool that opens compressed files without installing anything. You pick a file from your computer, Google Drive, Dropbox or a URL. It lists the contents so you can download single files or save everything again as a ZIP.
It handles over 70 formats, including 7z, RAR, zipx, tar, ISO, DMG and MSI, and disk images such as VHD and VMDK. It can unpack password-protected and multi-part archives. It is part of the 123apps collection of web tools, and the free version shows ads.
Strengths
- Opens over 70 formats, including disk images and installers
- Handles password-protected and multi-part archives
- Takes files from Google Drive, Dropbox or a URL
- Nothing to install
Limitations
- Extracts archives only; it does not create them
- Needs an internet connection
- Ads in the free version
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree to use with ads, with a paid option to remove them.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- 123apps
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Opening an unfamiliar archive on a computer where you cannot install software
- Categories
- Compression
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Archive Extractor
Compare allSoftware that can replace Archive Extractor for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
ezyZip
A browser-based tool for creating ZIP files and extracting ZIP, RAR, 7z and other archives.
ezyZip is also browser-based and freemium with ads, but it can create ZIP files, including password-protected ones, and converts RAR and 7Z to ZIP.
ZIP Extractor
A free web app for opening and creating ZIP files, with saving and extracting into Google Drive.
ZIP Extractor is a free web app focused on ZIP files that saves extracted files directly to Google Drive, but it needs Google account access.
7-Zip
The small, free archiver that opens practically every archive format and compresses better than ZIP.
7-Zip must be installed rather than used in a browser, but it is free, open source, works offline and both creates and extracts archives.
PeaZip
A cross-platform archive manager that reads over two hundred formats and has a real file manager built in.
PeaZip is a free, open source desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux that reads over 200 formats and creates archives, but it requires installation.
The Unarchiver
macOS extractor that opens archive formats Finder cannot.
The Unarchiver is a free macOS app that extracts almost any archive format offline and without ads, but it still cannot create archives and must be installed.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
dtrx
A command-line tool that extracts many archive formats with one consistent command.
bsdtar (libarchive)
Command-line archivers built on libarchive that read and write tar, zip, cpio, ISO and more.
ouch
Command-line tool that compresses and extracts archives without format-specific flags.
WinRAR
The archiver that created the RAR format, sold as shareware whose trial has never really expired.
