The Unarchiver
Open any archive in seconds
Only for Mac
Free
The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR (including v5), 7-zip, Tar, Gzip and Bzip2. It will also open many older formats, such as StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ and ARC. It will even open other kinds of files, like ISO and BIN disc images, some Windows .EXE installers. The list is actually much longer - see the program homepage for the full list.
The Unarchiver also tries to detect and correctly handle the filename encoding in the archives it opens, allowing you to open files from every part of the world without getting garbled filenames.
The Unarchiver aims to be the only unarchiving program you will ever need, and to stay out of your way.
Also, if you need to open archives on your iPad or iPhone, look for "Archives" on the App Store, or go to https://theunarchiver.com/archives. It is based on The Unarchiver, and lets you easily handle Archives on iOS!
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Fixed:
• Minor bugs and known crashes
4.3.9 19/03/2025
We want to enhance your experience with The Unarchiver, and your feedback is crucial to our improvement process. That's why we've introduced a Survey and Product Usage Analytics in this latest update.
Share your thoughts by participating in the survey, or reach out directly at support@macpaw.com
What's New:
- 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.
We appreciate your participation and support in helping us improve The Unarchiver.
4.3.8 16/05/2024
Fixed:
- Crash on processing corrupted ISO files.
- Known memory leak cases.
- Crash on opening .SITX files with symlinks to non-existing files.
- Potential vulnerability that caused quarantine attributes to be missing for extracted items (CVE-2023-46270).
4.3.6 24/10/2023
Fresh look of The Unarchiver icon!
4.3.5 16/05/2022
Fixed:
• Minor bugs and known crashes
4.3.4 03/03/2022
Fixed:
• Minor bugs and known crashes
4.3.3 30/04/2021
Fixed:
• Minor bugs and known crashes
4.3.2 30/04/2021
Fixed:
• Minor bugs and known crashes
4.3.1 26/04/2021
Apple M1 support is here!
Fixed:
• WARC 1.1 is now partially supported.
4.3.0 20/04/2021
The Unarchiver is running like a champ on the new macOS Big Sur.
Fixed:
• Malformed RAR archives don't crash The Unarchiver anymore.
• Extracting malformed archives won't result in out of memory errors or reading out of memory bounds error.
• RARE8E9Filter crash is fixed.
4.2.4 18/11/2020
Fixed:
• RAR 1.5 extraction is working once again.
• RAR 5 solid archives extraction is now working as expected.
4.2.2 28/05/2020
• The Unarchiver would occasionally crash on older systems. That has been fixed.
4.2.1 14/04/2020
We’re excited to bring you an update based mostly on your feedback. Yes, we are always listening, so keep it coming.
- We tweaked extraction settings to feel even more system-like
- Hardened Runtime was enabled
- Sentry error reporting was integrated. It will help us better identify and fix errors
Fixed:
- Parsing comments inside ZIP archives won’t result in them being extracted as zero sized files
- Sometimes, upon trying to open an especially large number of archives at the same time, The Unarchiver would crash. That has been fixed.
- The Unarchiver will now correctly identify a ZIP in a RAR and vice versa
- Parsing Extra Fields in ZIP archives was improved
- Permissions handling for Windows files is now working as expected
- Last but not least, multiple extraction errors in old archive formats are fixed and won’t bug you anymore.
4.2.0 05/03/2020
The Unarchiver goes dark. We adopted the new Mojave Dark Mode so your archive management could become much more stylish.
Fixed:
• Extraction speed for most archives is now much better
• The Unarchiver is not going to confuse separate archives with similar names and multipart archives anymore
• Direct warc.gz extraction is now supported along with a fix for some specific warc archives. Thanks, tsudoko
• Some specific 7-Zip archives are now handled correctly. Thanks @pavel_urusov
• RAR self-extracting archives are now handled correctly
• Large zip files extraction problem fixed
• Italian localization fixed
4.1.0 14/02/2019
What a glorious day! We know you've been waiting for this update to happen for so long. And in turn we wanted to bring you something worthy. So, fasten your seat belts, here we go.
• New icon is here.
• UI was given a makeover: we leveled every string of text and measured every indent.
• Localizations were meticulously checked, fixed and then checked again. BTW, did you find an error? Tell our support and we'll fix it right away.
• Speed was improved. You can now get the contents of the archive you’ve just downloaded much much faster.
Fixed
• More RAR4, RAR5 and multipart fixes mean even more weird archives could and will be extracted.
• Symbolic links inside of ZIP archives won't be broken upon extraction anymore.
• Sometimes, upon trying to open an especially large archive, The Unarchiver would crash. That has been fixed.
• Password protected archives used to crash The Unarchiver in some cases. Well, not anymore!
• Extracting multiple files won't bug you with multiple "Extract to.." pop-ups.
• Sømé characters in file and folder names caused random crashes. We've fixed that.
4.0.0 14/06/2018
• Fixes an issue where the archives in the directories with non-unicode encoding weren't being opened correctly
MacPaw updated its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service to give you more transparency into how we collect, use and disclose information. We encourage you to review them.
https://macpaw.com/policy
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3.11.6 24/05/2018
• Introduces a new feedback form and a crash reporter.
• Fixes an issue that sometimes made it impossible to extract archives from Finder.
3.11.5 27/03/2018
• Fixes an issue with extracting certain RAR archives. Unfortunately, it was introduced in previous version, and we are grateful to our users who helped us quickly resolve it.
3.11.3 16/09/2017
* It is now easier to understand how to set The Unarchiver as the default app for opening archives.
* Other minor bugs fixed.
3.11.2 11/09/2017
* 3.11.1: Fixed spurious error message when extracting multi-part RAR files.
* Support for RAR version 5 archives.
* Only unpack an archive once when accidentally opening multiple parts of the same archive.
* Handle opening archives with huge number of parts better.
* Fix crash when opening certain tiny archives.
* Bug fixes for zip64, NSIS, and Squeeze.
3.11.1 19/05/2016
* Support for RAR version 5 archives.
* Only unpack an archive once when accidentally opening multiple parts of the same archive.
* Handle opening archives with huge number of parts better.
* Fix crash when opening certain tiny archives.
* Bug fixes for zip64, NSIS, and Squeeze.
3.11 17/05/2016
* 3.10.1: Fixed crash on OS X 10.9 and below.
* Removed file type selector.
* Fixed crash on OS X 10.11.
* Fixed an issue that made unpacked application not work.
* Better support for Zip, 7z, gzip and NSIS files.
* Bugfixes for pax and ARJ.
* Fixes for a few crashing bugs.
* Added Hungarian translation by Dávid Áron Lőrincz.
* Other translation fixes.
3.10.1 25/09/2015
NOTE! This version seems to crash on Mac OS X 10.9. If you have 10.9 or earlier, please wait until another update that fixes this issue has been released before updating!
* Removed file type selector.
* Fixed crash on OS X 10.11.
* Fixed an issue that made unpacked application not work.
* Better support for Zip, 7z, gzip and NSIS files.
* Bugfixes for pax and ARJ.
* Fixes for a few crashing bugs.
* Added Hungarian translation by Dávid Áron Lőrincz.
* Other translation fixes.
3.10 23/09/2015
* The Archive Browser for Mac OS X and Archives for iOS have also been updated! Look for them in the App Stores!
* 3.9.1: Fixed extraction of double-format archives like .tar.gz, which was accidentally broken in 3.9.
* Add Dutch translation.
* Add support for PMA files.
* Better support for broken Zip files.
* Fixed bugs in handling of NSIS and MSI files.
* Fixed a bug where minimizing the window could make it remain open after extracting.
* Tiny interface tweaks.
3.9.1 04/10/2013
* WARNING: There is a known bug where .tar.gz files do not extract correctly in 3.9. Please wait for Apple to approve 3.9.1 before upgrading if this is a problem for you.
* The Archive Browser for Mac OS X and Archives for iOS have also been updated! Look for them in the App Stores!
* Add Dutch translation.
* Add support for PMA files.
* Better support for broken Zip files.
* Fixed bugs in handling of NSIS and MSI files.
* Fixed a bug where minimizing the window could make it remain open after extracting.
* Tiny interface tweaks.
3.9 02/10/2013
Fixed:
• Minor bugs and known crashes
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Version 4.3.9 19/03/2025
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