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The Unarchiver for Mac

Replacement for the built-in Archive Utility.

Free
In English
4.4
Based on 247 user rates

The Unarchiver overview

The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "Archive Utility.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in macOS.

The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than Archive Utility, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems. Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more or less obscure formats. It is localized into Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Portugese and Russian.

What’s new in version 4.3.8

  • The "Stand with Ukraine" message has been replaced with the Survey invitation.
  • Product Usage Analytics has been added to help us understand how you use our app.
  • Our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use have been updated to reflect these changes.
  • We've made minor updates to the Settings for a better user experience.
  • The minimum macOS version requirement is now 10.13.
  • Russian localization has been removed.
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The Unarchiver for Mac

Free
In English
Version 4.3.8
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5.0
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5.0
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4.0
Reliability
5.0
Customer support
5.0

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4.4

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martina-8
martina-8
Apr 5 2022
4.3.4
5.0
Apr 5 2022
5.0
Version: 4.3.4
I had a rar file that five other extractors showed as "corrupt" or quit without error. THIS one, The Unarchiver, did the job without complaining.
choicebrume419
choicebrume419
Jul 29 2021
4.3.0
0.0
Jul 29 2021
0.0
Version: 4.3.0
i just downloaded this app but its asking for a password. can i have it please?
dupap56
dupap56
Dec 7 2020
4.2.4
2.0
Dec 7 2020
2.0
Version: 4.2.4
Used to love this. Newer versions want to connect to the internet. Maybe it's nothing nefarious but I have no way to check. For those that care about such things: this once neat little tool now lives in Ukraine.
Aargl
Aargl
May 28 2020
4.2.2
4.0
May 28 2020
4.0
Version: 4.2.2
While I value the advices of Mcr and Derekcurrie — yes, Keka is great! :-) — I keep The Unarchiver around, probably only for RAR or if someday I have a reluctant archive that I'll have to try opening with different apps... I never had issues with it, and if it ever tries to access the internet, Little Snitch does its job. ;-)
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
May 28 2020
4.2.2
2.0
May 28 2020
2.0
Version: 4.2.2
Get Keka instead. Keka's a better, more reliable app. Keka's still FREE (but it's shareware) if you download it directly from the developer (IOW not the Mac App Store). - - https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/32512/keka - - Unarchiver has turned into clunkware, no longer adequately supported.
stew-1
stew-1
May 20 2024
4.3.8
1.0
May 20 2024
1.0
Version: 4.3.8
Satcomer
Satcomer
Oct 24 2023
4.3.6
4.0
Oct 24 2023
4.0
Version: 4.3.6
Rytsab
Rytsab
May 22 2023
4.3.5
5.0
May 22 2023
5.0
Version: 4.3.5
stephenmetcalfe
stephenmetcalfe
Mar 22 2023
4.3.5
5.0
Mar 22 2023
5.0
Version: 4.3.5
martina-8
martina-8
Apr 5 2022
4.3.4
5.0
Apr 5 2022
5.0
Version: 4.3.4
Sigsgaard
Sigsgaard
Feb 25 2022
4.3.0
5.0
Feb 25 2022
5.0
Version: 4.3.0
trinineverette
trinineverette
May 25 2021
4.3.0
4.0
May 25 2021
4.0
Version: 4.3.0
lucycranetranslate
lucycranetranslate
May 18 2021
4.3.0
3.0
May 18 2021
3.0
Version: 4.3.0
dupap56
dupap56
Dec 7 2020
2.0
Dec 7 2020
2.0
Version: null
Aargl
Aargl
May 28 2020
4.0
May 28 2020
4.0
Version: null
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
May 28 2020
2.0
May 28 2020
2.0
Version: null
distreszed
distreszed
May 27 2020
5.0
May 27 2020
5.0
Version: null
ShotBlocker
ShotBlocker
Apr 14 2020
1.0
Apr 14 2020
1.0
Version: null
jrg-2
jrg-2
Mar 15 2020
1.0
Mar 15 2020
1.0
Version: null
Mcr
Mcr
Mar 5 2020
1.0
Mar 5 2020
1.0
Version: null
SteveGosselin
SteveGosselin
Mar 21 2019
5.0
Mar 21 2019
5.0
Version: null
Just-Annutha-Dewd
Just-Annutha-Dewd
Feb 24 2019
2.0
Feb 24 2019
2.0
Version: null
WetNet
WetNet
Dec 1 2018
5.0
Dec 1 2018
5.0
Version: null
jcraig
jcraig
May 31 2018
5.0
May 31 2018
5.0
Version: null
Leesa
Leesa
Mar 7 2018
5.0
Mar 7 2018
5.0
Version: null
kosovan-s
kosovan-s
Nov 13 2017
5.0
Nov 13 2017
5.0
Version: null
Funjoy
Funjoy
Oct 17 2017
5.0
Oct 17 2017
5.0
Version: null
PaulWilkinson9977
PaulWilkinson9977
Sep 3 2017
5.0
Sep 3 2017
5.0
Version: null
junichii
junichii
Jul 23 2017
4.0
Jul 23 2017
4.0
Version: null
Abramurkwian
Abramurkwian
Jun 23 2017
5.0
Jun 23 2017
5.0
Version: null
MichaelHaeusler
MichaelHaeusler
Jun 1 2017
5.0
Jun 1 2017
5.0
Version: null
trottta
trottta
Nov 9 2016
4.0
Nov 9 2016
4.0
Version: null
Stavast
Stavast
Oct 11 2016
5.0
Oct 11 2016
5.0
Version: null
Widber
Widber
Jul 8 2016
5.0
Jul 8 2016
5.0
Version: null
Bumbleb
Bumbleb
Jun 16 2016
4.5
Jun 16 2016
4.5
Version: null
Haliomaster
Haliomaster
May 26 2016
3.0
May 26 2016
3.0
Version: null
Mahdizadeh
Mahdizadeh
May 19 2016
5.0
May 19 2016
5.0
Version: null
Freenergy
Freenergy
Mar 17 2016
5.0
Mar 17 2016
5.0
Version: null
LionessSue
LionessSue
Nov 23 2015
4.0
Nov 23 2015
4.0
Version: null
uce-hole
uce-hole
Nov 22 2015
5.0
Nov 22 2015
5.0
Version: null
stephan-spencer
stephan-spencer
Nov 12 2015
4.0
Nov 12 2015
4.0
Version: null
nate-soles
nate-soles
Oct 2 2015
4.0
Oct 2 2015
4.0
Version: null
Anon42
Anon42
Sep 24 2015
2.0
Sep 24 2015
2.0
Version: null
Abuosman
Abuosman
Sep 23 2015
3.0
Sep 23 2015
3.0
Version: null
Dougster
Dougster
Sep 23 2015
5.0
Sep 23 2015
5.0
Version: null