NEW UPDATE 2017.11.30 Hi there, Thanks for reading this SoftwareHow tip. It's been two years since I first published this post. Things have changed a lot when it comes to unrar apps for Mac. I was hoping that OS X (now we call macOS) could add this feature to its built-in Archive Utility app, unfortunately, it seems that Apple macOS team doesn't plan to do this. My MacBook Pro is now with the latest 10.13 High Sierra, and I have to rely on third-party apps to extract RAR files.

As for the best rar extractor app for Mac, the recommendation stays the same —. It's still free to download and use. However, it's worth noting that the app has been acquired by (the maker of, an awesome Mac cleaning app) and is now part of the MacPaw family. You can read more from the press release. Also, I just found a more powerful app called — which allows Mac users to not only extract many types of archives, but you can also use it to create archives or preview content of an archive without extracting. Those additional features are not available in The Unarchiver or Archive Utility. I recommend BetterZip to those of you who often need to handle a different kind of files on a PC and Mac.

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. RAR Expander (Mac) is a clean GUI utility for creating and expanding RAR archives. It supports single, multi-part or password-protected archives. It supports single, multi-part or password-protected archives.

Sign in to outlook 2016. Note: BetterZip isn't freeware ($24.95 for the paid version), but a free trial is offered. You can or download it from its official site. What about the other apps listed below? I tried to check them now and then, just to make sure they're usable and the information is accurate.

But I find it so time-consuming because every year or so Apple releases a new version of macOS (to date, it's High Sierra 10.13.2), those apps that fail to be updated often can't run or malfunction. Therefore, I'd discourage you to check them out unless you are interested. That said, I'll try my best to keep the content on this post as fresh as possible. Thank you for understanding. RAR is a compressed file short for Roshal Archive; it's a proprietary file format developed by, a genius software engineer. Simply put, a.rar file is like a big data container that holds a set of individual files and folders inside.

Format micro sdhc card for mac. Because it reduces the size of your files and folders while keeping all the content 100% intact. With a RAR, it's much easier to store on removable media or transferred over the Internet. According to this comparison image provided by Compression Ratings, RAR files achieve much higher compression, especially on multimedia files. They are also easier to split or to recover once corrupted than other alternatives like ZIP or 7Zip files. Unlike other archive files, for example, a ZIP archive can be directly created or extracted by using the default function on Mac (), a RAR file can only be opened using third-party software.which, unfortunately, Apple hasn't built into the Archive Utility, yet. That's why there are plenty of third-party applications available on the Internet that claim to be able to do that.

Some are dated, while some require you to pay. Thanks to those smart, yet kind developers, we have quite a lot of free options to get the job done without taking a penny out of the pocket. I've tested many and here are the 10 best free apps that still work. 10 Free RAR Extractor Apps That Work on Mac.