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UnRARunar
Free

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

 Free

Free and open source under the LGPL.

Windows, Command line Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
  • Official RAR extractor from the format's developer
  • Free to use
  • Same format support as The Unarchiver, in a terminal
  • Runs on macOS, Windows and Linux
  • Extraction only, cannot create RAR archives
  • Not open source
  • Windows build is slightly outdated
  • No graphical app outside macOS
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Closed source Open source
License: Freeware License: LGPL-2.1-or-later
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked October 1, 2026

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