Archive Tools

Archives arrive from every direction — a client sends a RAR, a colleague prefers 7z, a Linux server exports tar.gz — and the traditional answer is installing another desktop program that nags about its license. The seven extractors here open archives entirely in your browser using WebAssembly: the file never leaves your computer, nothing is installed, and extraction starts the moment you drop the archive in.

RAR Extractor handles both RAR4 and the newer RAR5 formats, including archives split into multi-part volumes. ZIP Extractor covers the everyday format, including files created with unusual encodings for filenames. 7z Extractor opens 7-Zip archives, which compress better than ZIP and are common in software downloads. For the Unix family, TAR.GZ Extractor, TAR Extractor, and GZ Extractor unpack the layered formats that servers and open-source projects ship.

RAR to ZIP is the odd one out in a good way: instead of extracting to your device, it converts a RAR archive into a ZIP you can share onward — useful when the recipient's device cannot open RAR at all.

How to choose: match the extractor to the extension, and when in doubt try the format you suspect first — the tool will tell you if the archive does not match. Practical tips: extraction happens on your device, so very large archives are limited by your device's memory; close heavy tabs before extracting multi-gigabyte files. Encrypted archives ask for their password in the browser and are decrypted locally. Note that creating RAR files is not supported for licensing reasons — extraction and conversion only. And as always with archives from unknown senders, glance at the extracted file list before opening anything executable.