Note: WinRAR for macOS is a command-line-only application. If you prefer an intuitive GUI client for compression and decompression, we recommend trying The Unarchiver or Keka.

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

Features

  • WinRAR supports all popular compression formats (RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Zip).
  • WinRAR is ideal for multimedia files. WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the best compression method. The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files, executables and object libraries particularly well.
  • WinRAR allows you to split archives into separate volumes easily, making it possible to save them on several disks for example.
  • WinRAR is also ideal, if you are sending data through the web. Its 128 bit password encryption and its authenticated signature technology will give you the peace of mind you have been looking for.
  • WinRAR is shareware, meaning you have the chance to thoroughly test it. The program can be used absolutely free of charge for 40 days!
  • WinRAR licenses are valid for all available language and platform versions. If you have purchased several licenses, you can even mix versions to meet your own personal needs.
  • WinRAR gives you all future UPDATES for FREE!

What's New

WinRAR properly recognizes archives with a wrong file extension, containing an archive in another format stored without compression. For example, if host.rar, storing nested.zip inside, was renamed to host.zip, WinRAR 7.20 could display nested.zip contents when opening such host.zip. This version displays host.zip contents.

Similarly to Windows Explorer, the first click on size and time columns in WinRAR file list sets the reverse sort mode with largest and latest files at the top.

Switch -s=e performs the case insensitive file extension comparison in Windows. Unlike previous versions, solid statistics isn't reset anymore for file extensions differing only by case.

If self-extracting archive attempts to extract files to a folder requring administrator rights and elevation prompt is cancelled by user, the archive quits silently instead of issuing the folder access error.

Bugs fixed

  • WinRAR 7.20 could produce a broken archive when deleting files from solid archives in old RAR4 format. As a result of this fix, deleting files in solid RAR4 archives now involves the full archive repacking, similar to WinRAR versions preceding 7.20. It doesn't affect archives in the modern RAR5 format
  • With a rare combination of source data type and compression parameters, WinRAR 7.x could crash when compressing source data. Such crash was more likely when processing large amount of poorly compressible data
  • WinRAR 7.20 couldn't unpack ZIP archives containing file comment fields; d) switch -tl didn't set the latest time when used with RAR 7.20 "ch" command
  • Extraction command didn't automatically replace device names like "aux", when unpacking archives containing such reserved names
  • If folder shortcut was double clicked in "Save WinRAR settings as" dialog when exporting WinRAR settings, folder shortcut itself was overwritten with settings data instead of opening a target folder.