Open a RAR file
Get the files out of a RAR without installing anything. Both RAR4 and RAR5 are read, on your own device, and nothing is uploaded.
- Processed on your device
- No upload, no waiting
- No signup, no watermark
How it works
Add your RAR
Drop it in. RAR4 and RAR5 are both read, including archives with folders inside them.
Look inside
Every file is listed with its size. A RAR is a solid stream rather than a catalogue, so it is read through once — which takes a moment on a large one.
Take what you want
Download one file or all of them together as a ZIP.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need WinRAR?
No. Nothing is installed and nothing is bought. The reader is part of this page and runs in your browser.
Is my RAR uploaded?
No. The archive is opened on your own device, by code that runs inside this page. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and it works with the Wi-Fi switched off once the page has loaded. That matters more for archives than for most files — a zip of your tax returns or a backup of a folder is exactly the kind of thing that should not be handed to a stranger's server.
Can you make a RAR as well?
No, and that one is not a limitation we can engineer around. The RAR compression format is proprietary, and the only source that can create one is licensed on terms that specifically forbid using it to build a competing archiver. There is no permissively-licensed RAR compressor in existence, so no browser tool can honestly offer one. If you need to send a compressed archive, ZIP opens everywhere without anything installed — that is what our Create ZIP page makes.
Which RAR versions work?
RAR4 and RAR5, which covers essentially everything made this century. The reader is libarchive, which implements the format independently rather than using RarLab's own code — that independence is what makes it usable under a permissive licence, and it is also why a few rare corners are not covered. A RAR4 carrying an archive comment, and non-English file names inside older RAR4 archives, are the known gaps. Nothing crashes: the page tells you what it could and could not read.
Can it open a password-protected RAR?
It will list what is inside and tell you the files are locked. Entering the password is not yet supported, so encrypted RAR contents cannot be read here.
Is there a size limit?
Your device's memory, rather than a server's upload cap. Very large archives are opened a file at a time where the format allows it, so a big ZIP lists instantly and only the file you ask for is unpacked.
Is it safe to open a RAR from someone I do not know?
Archives are the one kind of file whose CONTENTS can be hostile, so two old attacks are handled before you see anything. A file inside an archive can be named "../../something" to try to escape the folder it is unpacked into — those names are clamped and you are told which ones were changed. And an archive can be a few kilobytes that unpacks to terabytes, which would take the browser tab down with it; that is measured and refused rather than attempted.