Top 5 Open-Source Alternatives to RAR

Product categories

Archive Manager Archiver Data Compression Design Tools HR Password Recovery Password Unlocker Productivity User Experience

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to RAR are 7-Zip ZS, patool, and zpaq. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

7-Zip ZS Landing Page
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7ZZ

7-Zip ZS

A fork of 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Archiver #Archive Manager #Data Compression
patool Landing Page
2

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patool

patool is a portable command line archive file manager
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Design Tools #Productivity #User Experience 1 social mentions
zpaq Landing Page
3

zpaq

Incremental Journaling Backup Utility and Archiver
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Password Recovery #Archiver #Password Unlocker 18 social mentions
DAR Landing Page
4

DAR

Disk Archive Home Page
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Archiver #Archive Manager #Data Compression 14 social mentions
unp Landing Page
5

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unp

is a small perl script which makes extraction of any archive files a bit easier.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Archiver #Archive Manager #HR