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RAR
Roshal Archive
RAR compresses better than ZIP and supports recovery records, but it is proprietary — only WinRAR may create it, and neither Windows nor macOS opens it out of the box. That gap is why rar-to-zip is a permanent search term.
- Extension
- .rar
- MIME type
- application/vnd.rar
- Also called
- WinRAR
01 Convert RAR to something else
03 Related formats
Opening a .rar file
If you landed here because something handed you a .rar file and
nothing on your machine will open it, converting it to a format you already have a
reader for is usually faster than installing new software. Every conversion above runs
in this browser — the file is not uploaded, so it works on a locked-down work machine
and on a file you are not allowed to send anywhere.