RARLAB's RAR is an all-in-one, original, free, simple, easy and quick compression program, archiver, assistant, extractor, manager and even a basic file explorer. RAR can create RAR and ZIP and unpack RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, 7z, ISO, ARJ archives. List of functions include repair command for damaged ZIP and RAR files, benchmark function compatible with RARLAB's WinRAR benchmark, recovery record, usual and recovery volumes, encryption, solid archives, utilizing multiple CPU cores to compress data. Additionally to standard ZIP files, unzip function supports ZIP and ZIPX with BZIP2, LZMA, PPMd and XZ compression also as password protected ZIP. Unrar command is available for all versions of RAR archives including the latest RAR5, password protected and multipart files. RAR displays advertising to cover development costs. You can pay in options menu to turn off ads. RAR requests access to network, viewing network connections and billing to display or disable ads. "Install unknown apps" permission is requested, so .apk files can be started from RAR in Android 8+.
VERSION HISTORY
- Version 5.91.build93 posted on 2020-09-29
Adjustments for Android 11. - Version N/A posted on 2020-06-27
RAR failed to properly unpack files from subfolders of archives created by RAR 1.40. - Version 5.50.build42 posted on 2016-09-21
1. Added support for PAX extended headers in TAR archives. Such headers are utilized by modern TAR tools to store high precision file times and lengthy file names.,2. If wrong password is entered when unpacking an encrypted file in RAR5 archive, RAR proposes to enter a valid password for same file again instead of aborting extraction.,3. "Information" command in previous versions did not display ZIP archive comment if comment length was less than 24 characters. Fixed now. - Version 5.20.build25 posted on 2014-10-03
Several fixes and updates
Program Details
- Category: System Utilities > System Maintenance
- Publisher: RARLAB (published by win.rar GmbH)
- License: Free
- Price: N/A
- Version: 5.91
- Platform: android