WinRAR

WinRAR
Developer(s)
Initial release22 April 1995; 29 years ago (1995-04-22)
Stable release
7.01[3] Edit this on Wikidata / 15 May 2024
Written inC++
Operating systemWindows 7 or later
PlatformIA-32 (up to v7.01), x64
Size3.4 MB
Available in50+ languages[4]
List of languages
Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Colombian Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese
TypeFile archiver
LicenseTrialware[5]
Websiterarlab.com

WinRAR is a trialware file archiver utility, developed by Eugene Roshal of win.rar GmbH. It can create and view archives in RAR or ZIP file formats,[6] and unpack numerous archive file formats. To enable the user to test the integrity of archives, WinRAR embeds CRC32 or BLAKE2 checksums for each file in each archive. WinRAR supports creating encrypted, multi-part and self-extracting archives.

WinRAR is a Windows-only program. An Android application called "RAR for Android" is also available.[7] Related programs include the command-line utilities "RAR" and "UNRAR"[8] and versions for macOS,[4] Linux, FreeBSD, WinCE, and MS-DOS.

  1. ^ (Russia, Chelyabinsk) WinRAR 3.40 release notes by Eugene Roshal (in Russian)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference license was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files". Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  4. ^ a b "RAR download page". rarlab.com. RARLAB. Archived from the original on 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference inf40 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Manuel Masiero (18 March 2013)"Compression Performance: 7-Zip, MagicRAR, WinRAR, WinZip" Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  7. ^ "RAR for Android; RARsoft". Archived from the original on 2014-12-22. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
  8. ^ Voloshin, Kirill (2011-03-10). Интервью по переписке [Interview by correspondence] (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2015-08-16. Retrieved 2014-10-27.