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The Unarchiver

The UnarchiverOriginal author(s)Dag Ågren
Developer(s)Circlesoft, MacPaw[1]
Stable release
Repositorynone 
Operating systemmacOS, Linux using GNUstep libraries, and command line only on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS
Available in18 languages
English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish
TypeFile Extractor / Decompressor
LicenseProprietary since acquisition[2]
Formerly LGPL
Websitetheunarchiver.com
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The Unarchiver is a proprietary freeware[2]data decompression utility, which supports more formats than Archive Utility[3] (formerly known as BOMArchiveHelper), the built-in archive unpacker program in macOS. It can also handle filenames in various character encodings, created using operating system versions that use those character encodings.[4] The latest version requires Mac OS X Lion or higher. The Unarchiver does not compress files.[5]
Keka, The Unarchiver, and UnRarX are probably your best bets out of the 4 options considered. 'Free and fast' is the primary reason people pick Keka over the competition. This page is powered by a knowledgeable community that helps you make an informed decision. Opening rar files on mac made easy with TheUnarchiver. It's times more powerful than the native macOS utility and supports infinitely more archive formats. Takes a few clicks to install and set it as a default app for all archive files. The Unarchiver for Mac is free. No in-apps for additional fe.
The corresponding command line utilities unar and lsar is free (libre) software licensed under the LGPL[6] run on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS.[7]
A main feature of the Unarchiver is its ability to handle many old, obscure formats like StuffIt as well as AmigaOS disk images in LZH, LZX, and so on. This is credited in its source code to the use of libxad, an Amiga file format library. Ågren also worked to reverse engineer the StuffIt and StuffIt X formats, and his code was one of the most complete open source implementations of these proprietary formats.
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Original author(s)	Dag Ågren
Developer(s)	Circlesoft, MacPaw^[1]
Stable release
Repository	none
Operating system	macOS, Linux using GNUstep libraries, and command line only on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS
Available in	18 languages
English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish
Type	File Extractor / Decompressor
License	Proprietary since acquisition^[2] Formerly LGPL
Website	theunarchiver.com

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The Unarchiver

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CleanMyDrive 2

Setapp

Gemini 2

Gemini Photos

The Unarchiver

Wallpaper Wizard 2

Encrypto

Amazing Apps to Improve Your Every Day

An app for every job, right on your Mac

The Unarchiver For Windows 10

We Are MacPaw

Where Have We Been Mentioned?

An app for every job,
right on your Mac