RARLAB's RAR is an original, free, simple, easy and fast all-in-one compression program, compressor, wizard, extractor, manager and even a basic file explorer.

RAR can create RAR and ZIP archives and decompress RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, 7z, ISO, ARJ files. Its features include a repair command for damaged ZIP and RAR archives, a benchmark function compatible with RARLAB's WinRAR benchmark, a recovery log, recovery and custom volumes, solid file encryption, and the use of multiple CPU cores for data compression.

In addition to standard ZIP files, the unzip function supports ZIP and ZIPX with BZIP2, LZMA, and PPMd compression. The Unrar command is available for all RAR file versions, including the latest RAR5. UDF and ISO9660 file formats can be unzipped.