“Manage RAR files”

Stealing the crown from WinZip, the previously undisputed king of file compression apps, RAR is a must-have in any modern-day Mac toolkit. The application not only includes support for extracting virtually any kind of file compression format, it also boasts a no-nonsense approach to reducing file sizes.

Some will argue that the application isn’t as quick as WinZip at compressing files. However, for the small lag in time difference, you end up with a significantly smaller archived file at the end of the process with RAR. What’s more, the application allows you to save files into both ZIP and RAR formats, with a multitude of options for speeding up compression times, or reducing file sizes at the expense of a few more seconds.

Although many newcomers might be put off by the sheer range of features and settings within the program, the interface doesn’t take long to get accustomed to, and if you’re still really stuck there’s a simple wizard-based system that walks you through the process of extracting or compressing. All this adds up to make RAR a dependable utility that performs better than any other tool in its class.

Languages:

English

Limitations:

Command line only

OS requirements for RAR:

OS: Mac OS X

Minimum requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1 or later

Pros

Seamless compression resulting in low file sizes
Huge array of options and settings
Intuitive Quick-Start feature

Cons

Still not available as freeware

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From the publisher of RAR

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.