The Unarchiver for Mac

RAR is a compressed file format used to reduce the size of large files. It is similar to ZIP files and is common on Windows platforms. However, there are times when you need to open a RAR file on your Mac. In that situation, you will need to download and install certain software to view the contents of a RAR file.

The Unarchiver for Mac 4.1.0 is a free program and can open RAR files on a Mac. The program also supports a wide range of formats including 7zip, Gzip, TAR, etc. It also supports splitting large files.

The Unarchiver

Open any compressed file in seconds

The Unarchiver is the only application you need to open RAR on Mac. It is much more powerful than the original macOS utility and supports more compression formats.

Compatible with macOS 10.7 and above.

Quick Installation

A few clicks to install and set it as the default file extracting application.

Free and always available

The Unarchiver free. Does not contain extra extras.

Read foreign characters

If the compressed file name is not in Latin characters, The Unarchiver for Mac can still handle it.

How to use The Unarchiver for Mac

1. Select any compressed file.
2. Go to File -> Get info menu .
3. Open Open and select The Unarchiver .
4. Click Change All .

Now all the compressed files you have will automatically open with The Unarchiver and you will 'goodbye' the 'Unknown format' warning and the extraction error forever. This file extracting software saves you considerable time when processing files every day.

Update The Unarchiver for the latest Mac

The Unarchiver for Mac 4.1.0

• Additional dark mode compatible with Mojave's Dark Mode for easier file management.
• Fixes
  • The decompression speed of archived files is now better.
  • The Unarchiver does not confuse archives with similar names and multi-part files.
  • Support direct decompress warc.gz and fix some specific errors when handling this file format.
  • Exactly process some compressed 7-Zip files.
  • Exactly process self-extracting files in RAR format.
  • Fix decompression of large zip file.
  • Correct Italian language errors.

The Unarchiver for Mac 4.0.0

• New icon.
• Redesigned UI.
• Fix localization errors.
• Improve speed faster than before.
• Support RAR4, RAR5 and more file formats.
• The symbol link inside the zip file will not be broken when it is compressed.
• Fix crash when opening large compressed files.
• Fixed an error where the compressed file with password protection would cause The Unarchiver to freeze.
• Extracting multiple files will not make you uncomfortable with the 'Extract to…' windows.
• Fix file and folder characters that cause the application to crash.

The Unarchiver 3.7 for Mac

• Added Bulgarian language pack.
• Addresses an issue that causes files with incorrect names to not work in * .Zip and * .Exe files.
• Fix the cache shortage problem.
• The Read Only property of the data in the compressed file has been "ignored". Because this has caused an error when extracting in some old versions of The Unarchiver.