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WinRAR vs NanaZip: catalog facts
WinRAR	NanaZip
Paid Paid licence after a 40-day trial. The trial continues to work and shows a reminder on…	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence, including the Microsoft Store listing.
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	Appears in the Windows 11 right-click menu instead of the legacy submenu 7-Zip's formats and compression, so nothing is lost in the move
Paid software; the free trial is technically an evaluation, not a licence Windows only for the graphical version	Windows 10 and 11 only MSIX packaging makes some scripted or portable deployments awkward
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: MIT
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 September 21, 2026

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