Download RAR Extractor - unzip for macOS

You’ve just downloaded a .tar.xz file for a new icon set, and Finder shrugs. A colleague sends over a password-protected .7z. These moments happen daily. RAR Extractor – Unzip sits in your Dock as a quiet helper for every archive format that lands on your desktop.

What can it open?

It reads more than 50 compressed formats — RAR, ZIP, 7z, tar, xz, iso, apk, pkg, jar, swf, pdf and plenty of niche ones. Basically, if it’s an archive, this app likely unpacks it.

Create encrypted ZIPs and 7Zs

Yes. You can create ZIP and 7Z archives with AES-256 encryption. It also handles batch jobs, so dragging in ten files at once isn’t a problem.

Double-click to extract, Quick Look to peek inside

Set it as the default app and double-click any archive to extract. The built-in Quick Look support means you can browse an archive’s contents without unpacking a thing — handy when you just need one font file from a zipped bundle.

Set as default opener for all archives

Set the default association early. Head to Finder, pick any .rar file, press ⌘I, and switch Open with to RAR Extractor – Unzip. Then tap Change All. From that point, a double-click opens most archives without a second thought.

Drag a folder stuffed with mixed archives straight onto the Dock icon. The batch engine queues them all, keeps the original folder structures, and drops everything into the same directory. No dialog box per file.

Try the right-click shortcut next. Select three .zip files in Finder, control-click, and pick Extract Here from the services menu. It’s the fastest path when you’re tidying downloads before lunch.

Missteps beginners make

Setting the app as default before dragging it into Applications causes odd behaviour. Gatekeeper blocks it from a mounted .dmg, so the association silently fails. Copy it over first, then open.

Another trap: double-clicking a password-protected .7z and staring at a stalled progress bar. The app waits for a password it never prompts for. Right-click instead, choose Extract to…, and the password field appears right away.

Some people tick Delete archive after extraction in preferences and forget they’ve done it. Test with a copy before relying on that setting. A handful of niche lzh and sea formats from old Mac archives don’t preview with Quick Look — that’s a format limitation, not a bug, but it catches newcomers who expect thumbnails for everything.

• macOS 11.5 or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel 64-bit