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PeaZipUnRAR
Free

Free and open source under LGPLv3; a portable package that needs no installation is…

 Free

Freeware under the RARLAB licence; creating RAR archives needs the paid WinRAR or RAR.

Windows, macOS, Linux Windows, Command line
  • Works with 200+ archive types and variants and handles spanned archives
  • Native application on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD, with a portable package
  • Official RAR extractor from the format's developer
  • Free to use
  • The interface is busy compared with the plain 7-Zip window
  • Creating RAR archives is not possible; RAR is read-only, as it is in other free tools
  • Extraction only, cannot create RAR archives
  • Not open source
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Closed source
License: LGPL-3.0 License: Freeware
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 20, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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