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WinRAR vs CubeICE: catalog facts
WinRAR	CubeICE
Paid Paid licence after a 40-day trial. The trial continues to work and shows a reminder on…	Freemium Free for personal and business use; a paid installer removes bundled ads and adds support.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows
The only tool that creates RAR archives, including recovery records Reads ZIP, 7z, tar, ISO and most other formats you are handed	Automatic character encoding detection fixes garbled Japanese file names Supports over 20 formats including ZSTD and LZH
Paid software; the free trial is technically an evaluation, not a licence Windows only for the graphical version	Free installer bundles advertising software Website and documentation are mainly in Japanese
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Closed source
License not stated	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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