It works very well, since is capable of opening a multitude of formats with only one installation, although it also has its flaws, and that is that for example you will not be able to open a RAR file and see its content before extracting it, or choose what you really want to decompress from it, something for which many are not just convinced altogether.Īnother free alternative in the App Store is iZip Unarchiver, a fairly simple app that will also allow you to extract RAR files, and the most common compresses in general, and although it is not as subtle as Decompressor could be, it is not bad either.

And many others, even Windows installers in EXE format. It is a decompressor for a lot of files, including ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP. Opening RAR files on Mac: four free applications that can help youĪs we mentioned, by default on Mac there is no way to decompress files in this format, so you will have to go to third-party alternatives, and here we have compiled four of them that are available for free directly from the Mac App Store, ordered from highest to lowest popularity within the Apple app store.

2 Conclusion: the best applications to extract RAR files on Mac.

1 Opening RAR files on Mac: four free applications that can help you.

I look forward to any comments from the current and past developers of stuffit - they have a lot too answer for. Surely a company that has proprietary ownership of the Stuffit format(s) could a least maintain a commercial product that that can can Open ALL the crazy formats they have produced over the years.įinally a warning: ZIP, RAR, GZIP and the many other loss-less compression formats should never be run though stuffit ONLY perhaps if a tested uncorrupted backup exits, the likelihood of corruption of by stuffit, of these open compression formats is extremely high.

I maintain an old OS 7, OS 8 and OS 9 Macs (with comparable OLD versions of stuffit) for the purpose of opening old stuffit archives. New Stuffit products often cannot open stuffit archives produced by older versions of Stuffit. Instances of corrupted stuffit archives are common to the Mac community.

Having dealt with the whole Stuffit line for a decade or so (yeah I'm a old Mac guy) I have found it can produce corrupt archives, leading to costly re-production of projects. It has failed decompress RAR files for me and my clients years. Stuffit Expander IS *NOT* a reliable RAR expansion tool.

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