Note: WinRAR for macOS is a command-line just application. If you desire an intuitive GUI client for your pinch / decompression needs we suggest you try The Unarchiver or Keka.

WinRAR puts yous ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression. By consistently creating smaller archives, WinRAR is ofttimes faster than the competition. This will save yous disc space, transmission costs AND valuable working time likewise.

Features:

  • WinRAR supports all popular pinch formats (RAR, Zilch, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and seven-Nothing).
  • WinRAR is ideal for multimedia files. WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the best pinch method. The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files, executables and object libraries peculiarly well.
  • WinRAR allows you to separate archives into separate volumes hands, making it possible to save them on several disks for case.
  • WinRAR is also ideal, if you lot are sending information through the spider web. Its 128 chip password encryption and its authenticated signature applied science volition requite you the peace of mind you have been looking for.
  • WinRAR is shareware, meaning yous accept the chance to thoroughly test information technology. The program tin be used absolutely gratuitous of accuse for twoscore days!
  • WinRAR licenses are valid for all available language and platform versions. If y'all have purchased several licenses, yous tin even mix versions to meet your own personal needs.
  • WinRAR gives you lot all future UPDATES for FREE!

What's New:

  • WinRAR can unpack contents of .zst and .zipx archives utilizing Zstandard algorithm.
  • Added back up of Windows 11 Explorer context menus.
    • Beginning from Windows eleven, an application can add only a unmarried meridian level command or submenu to Explorer context menu.
    • If "Cascaded context menus" in "Integration settings" dialog is on, this single item is a submenu storing all necessary WinRAR commands. If this selection is off, only one extraction control for athenaeum and one archiving command for usual files are available.
    • You tin select these commands with "Context menu items..." button in "Integration settings" dialog.
  • "Legacy context menus" option in "Settings/Integration" dialog can be used in Windows 11 if WinRAR commands are missing in "Show more options" Windows legacy context carte or in context menus of 3rd party file managers. If WinRAR commands are already present here, keep "Legacy context menus" pick turned off to preclude duplicating them. This option is non available in Windows x and older.
  • Windows XP is not supported anymore. Minimum required operating organization version is Windows Vista.
  • "Close" item is added to "When done" list on "Advanced" page of archiving dialog. It closes WinRAR window, when archiving is done.
  • "When done" list is added to "Options" page of extraction dialog. It allows to select an action like turning a computer off or closing WinRAR afterwards completing extraction.
  • Switch -si can be used when extracting or testing to read annal information from stdin, such as:
    • type docs.rar | rar x -si -o+ -pmypwd dummy docs\
    • Even though the annal name is ignored with this switch, an arbitrary dummy archive proper noun has to specified in the command line. Operations requiring backward seeks are unavailable in this mode. Information technology includes displaying archive comments, testing the recovery record, utilizing the quick open information, processing multivolume archives. Prompts requiring user interaction are not allowed. Utilize -o[+|-|r], -p or -mes switches to suppress such prompts.
  • New -ep4 switch excludes the path prefix when archiving or extracting if this path is plant in the get-go of archived name. Path is compared with names already prepared to store in archive, without drive messages and leading path separators. For instance:
    • rar a -ep4texts\books annal c:\texts\books\technical
    • removes "text\books" from archived names, so they kickoff from 'technical'.
  • New -mes switch skips encrypted files when extracting or testing. It replaces the former -p- switch.
  • New -op switch sets the destination folder for '10' and 'e' extraction commands. Unlike path_to_extract control line parameter, this switch also accepts paths without trailing path separator character.
  • If 'p' control is used to impress a file to stdout, informational letters are suppressed automatically to forestall them mixing with file data.
  • "Generate archive proper noun by mask" option and switch -ag care for only starting time two 'Grand' characters later on 'H' as minutes. Previously any amount of such characters was considered as minutes. It makes possible to place the time field earlier the date, like -agHHMM-DDMMYY. Previous versions considered all 'Yard' in this string equally minutes.
  • Maximum immune size of RAR5 recovery tape is increased to g% of protected data size. Maximum number of RAR5 recovery volumes can be x times larger than protected RAR volumes. Previous WinRAR versions are not able to use the recovery record to repair broken archives if recovery tape size exceeds 99%. Similarly, previous versions cannot utilize recovery volumes if their number is equal or larger than number of RAR volumes.
  • Alert is issued if entered countersign exceeds the immune limit of 127 characters and is truncated. Previously such passwords had been truncated silently.
  • If archive includes reserved device names, the underscore character is inserted in the starting time of such names when extracting. For example, aux.txt is converted to _aux.txt. It is done to prevent compatibility problems with software unable to process such names. You lot can utilise "Allow potentially incompatible names" option in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog or command line -oni switch to avoid this conversion.
  • WinRAR attempts to reset the file cache before testing an archive. It helps to verify bodily information written to disk instead of reading a cached copy.
  • Multiple -five switches specifying dissimilar sizes for different volumes are at present allowed also for Nothing archives:
    • WinRAR a -v100k -v200k -v300k arcname.zip
    • Previously multiple -v switches were supported merely for RAR archives.
  • Switches -sl and -sm tin can be used in WinRAR.exe control line way when extracting archives in any supported formats, provided that such annal includes unpacked file sizes. Previously these switches could filter files past size only in RAR and Cipher archives.
  • Newer binder selection dialog is invoked when pressing "Browse" button in WinRAR "Settings/Paths" page, "Repair" and "Convert" commands, besides as in few other similar places. Previously a simpler XP manner folder selection dialog was opened.
  • When restoring from tray later completing an operation, WinRAR window is positioned under other opened windows, to non interfere with current user activities.
  • "650 MB CD" is removed and "ii GB volumes" is added to the list of predefined book sizes in "Define volume sizes" dialog invoked from WinRAR "Settings/Compression".
  • "Rename" command selects the file name part up to the final dot. Previously it selected the entire proper noun.
  • If SFX archive size exceeds 4 GB, an mistake message is issued during compression, immediately after exceeding this threshold. Previously this error was reported merely after completing compression. Executables of such size cannot be started by Windows.
  • Command line -en switch is not supported anymore. It created RAR4 archives without the end of archive tape. End of archive record permits to gracefully skip external data like digital signatures.

Bugs fixed:

  • when editing a file inside of .rar or .zip annal, WinRAR created a new SFX archive instead of updating an existing archive if "Create SFX archive" option was fix in the default pinch profile;
  • the total progress could be displayed incorrectly when using -oi, -f, -u switches or appropriate GUI options;
  • "Find files" command with "Use all tables" selection and control line "it" commands failed to notice strings in UTF-xvi encoding.