Extract RAR files online, free, without installing WinRAR: drop the .rar on this page and see every file and folder inside before anything is unpacked. Then save the one file you need, tick a few, or extract the lot. It is the quick way to open a RAR someone sent you on a computer where you can’t, or would rather not, install software. Older RAR archives and the newer RAR5 format are both read by libarchive, open-source code compiled to WebAssembly and run on your own device. The extractor, about 1 MB, downloads once, and the archive itself is never uploaded. Images and text files can be previewed before you save them. One limit to know: there is no password box yet, so password-protected RARs can’t be extracted here.
How it works
- Drop the .rar file. The format is read from its first bytes, so a RAR with the wrong extension still opens; the first RAR you open loads the extractor once.
- Browse the folder tree, Peek at an image or text file, and tick the files or folders you want.
- Press Save on any single file, or Extract → ZIP to take your selection, or the whole archive when nothing is ticked, as one ZIP.
Questions
- How do I open a RAR file without WinRAR?
- Drop it on this page. The contents are listed in your browser, and the Save button beside any file downloads that file on its own, with nothing to install and nothing to remove afterwards. For the whole archive, Extract all → ZIP packs everything into a ZIP, which Windows, macOS and ChromeOS open without extra software.
- Does it open RAR5 archives?
- Yes. Both the RAR 1.5–4.x signature and the RAR5 signature introduced with WinRAR 5 are recognised, and both are read by libarchive 3.7. It opens one file at a time, though, so a multi-part set (.part1.rar, .part2.rar and so on) can’t be joined back together here.
- Why does extracting everything give me a ZIP?
- A web page can’t write a folder full of files onto your disk, so the full extract is packed into one ZIP with the RAR’s folder structure intact, plus a _report.txt listing what was extracted and anything that failed. Files are stored in it without recompression. To take a single file without the ZIP step, use Save on its row.
- Does my file get uploaded?
- No. The models and all processing run inside your browser on your own device. You can verify this yourself: open your browser’s DevTools, watch the Network tab, and process a file: there are no uploads. After the first visit most tools also work fully offline.
- Are password-protected archives supported?
- Encrypted ZIP entries and password-protected RAR/7z archives are detected and reported honestly. A password prompt is on the roadmap, but nothing is silently skipped today.
- Why RAR and 7z but ZIP output only?
- Reading RAR and 7z uses the open libarchive project. Writing RAR is proprietary to WinRAR, and 7z output has little reason to exist here, since ZIP opens on every device without extra software.