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WinRARPeaZip
Paid

Paid licence after a 40-day trial. The trial continues to work and shows a reminder on…

 Free

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

Windows, macOS, Linux Windows, macOS, Linux
  • The only tool that creates RAR archives, including recovery records
  • Reads ZIP, 7z, tar, ISO and most other formats you are handed
  • Works with 200+ archive types and variants and handles spanned archives
  • Native application on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD, with a portable package
  • Paid software; the free trial is technically an evaluation, not a licence
  • Windows only for the graphical version
  • 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
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Closed source Open source
License not stated License: LGPL-3.0
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 21, 2026

Checked September 20, 2026

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