Open ZIP, RAR & 7z Files

Someone sends you a RAR or 7z file and your phone or work laptop has no idea what to do with it. This tool opens it right here in the page. You see every folder and file with its size and, for ZIP, TAR and RAR files, its date. Tap a file to preview it: pictures, text and code, the first page of a PDF, and sound or video play straight away.

It reads ZIP, RAR (both the older RAR 4 and current RAR 5), 7z, TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, TAR.XZ, ISO disc images and single .gz files. The unpacking is done by libarchive, the open-source engine behind many desktop archive apps, running inside your browser. Your archive is never uploaded; it is read from your own device and the files stay there.

Password-protected ZIP files work, both the classic kind and the stronger AES kind. You can browse the list first; the tool asks for the password when you open or save a locked file, and if it’s wrong it tells you plainly rather than handing you broken files. Passwords on RAR and 7z archives can’t be unlocked in a browser yet, and the tool says so up front instead of failing halfway.

1. Press “Choose an archive” (or drop the file onto the box). Big archives show a progress bar while they’re read.
2. Browse the folders, or type in “Search files and folders” to find something by name. “Hide system files” keeps Mac and Windows clutter out of the way.
3. Tap any file to preview it on the right (below the list on a phone). “Save this file” keeps just that one.
4. Tick files or whole folders, then press “Save selected”. Several files come as one ZIP with their folders kept.
5. Or press “Save all as ZIP” to get everything in a ZIP that any computer or phone can open. In Chrome and Edge, “Save to a folder…” writes the files straight into a folder you pick instead.

• Opens ZIP, RAR 4, RAR 5, 7z, TAR, TAR.GZ/TGZ, TAR.BZ2, TAR.XZ, ISO and single .gz files
• Folder tree with file counts, sizes and (for ZIP, TAR and RAR) dates
• Instant previews for pictures, text and code, PDFs (first page), audio and video
• Save one file, a ticked selection as a ZIP, or everything at once
• Turns RAR and 7z archives into a standard ZIP that opens anywhere
• Unlocks password-protected ZIPs (classic and AES) and says clearly when the password is wrong
• Search across every folder, with matches highlighted
• Archives inside archives open with one tap
• Hands a picture, PDF, video or sound file straight to our other tools
• Runs on your device: nothing is uploaded, nothing is installed

• Only need one or two files from a huge archive? Preview and save them individually, which is quicker than saving everything.
• Phones can’t save a folder of files in one go, so several files arrive as a single ZIP. On iPhone, tap that ZIP in the Files app to unpack it.
• Leave “Hide system files” on: the “__MACOSX” folder and “._” files are leftovers from Macs and are useless on other computers.
• If the password is right but files still fail, the archive was probably cut short during the download. Download it again and retry.