RAR

WinRAR RAR compressed archive

File type: Backup file, Archive and compressed file

Files with rar extension are compressed archives using RAR or WinRAR compression utilities. Along with the ZIP format, the RAR format is one of the most common formats used and can be extracted by almost every archiving tool.

Found 2 different file type records with the same rar filename suffix.

.rar (1)

What is rar file?

File type category:
Backup file
Archive and compressed file

Date updated: July 19, 2025

File extension rar is most likely best known for its use in a compressed archive format created by RAR and its successor WinRAR file archiver.

The original program was available for MS-DOS only. Still, the newer versions are available for every version of Windows and even for some other platforms, such as Linux or Mac.

Like other compressed file archive formats, .rar files are data containers that store one or several files and folders in compressed form. Compressed data can be in one or multiple split files (e.g., archive.rar, archive.r01, archive.r02, etc.).

In WinRAR, you can split a huge archive into a few smaller files called volumes. If you need to unpack rar multi-volumes, place all of them in the same folder and start extraction from the first volume.

RAR archives can also be password protected.

MIME types used for WinRar rar archives:
application/rar
application/x-rar-compressed

How to open rar file?

Most modern file archivers support the RAR format on all operating systems. The default program for RAR archive format is WinRAR or RAR for Mac.

How to convert rar file?

You can extract *.rar archives and repack RAR format to a different archive format simply by extracting the archive's contents and compressing them to a different format.

Suggested software to open rar file:

WinRAR

RAR for Linux

RAR for Mac

Associated software actions with the rar file

Open

Software applications that can open rar files:

WinRAR (Microsoft Windows)

7-zip (Microsoft Windows)

WinZip (Microsoft Windows)

ALZip (Microsoft Windows)

PeaZip (Microsoft Windows)

B1 Free Archiver (Microsoft Windows)

IZArc (Microsoft Windows)

FilZip (Microsoft Windows)

RAR for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

sArchiver (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

StuffIt Expander for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

The Unarchiver (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

ALZip for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

Decompressor (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

RAR for Linux (Linux/Unix)

Xarchiver (Linux/Unix)

WinZip for iOS (Apple iOS)

RAR for Android (Google Android)

Edit

Software applications that can edit rar files:

WinRAR (Microsoft Windows)

RAR for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

RAR for Linux (Linux/Unix)

Save

Software capable of saving rar files:

WinRAR (Microsoft Windows)

RAR for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

RAR for Linux (Linux/Unix)

Create

Software apps that create rar files:

WinRAR (Microsoft Windows)

7-zip (Microsoft Windows)

FilZip (Microsoft Windows)

RAR for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

sArchiver (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

iPack (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

RAR for Linux (Linux/Unix)

RAR for Android (Google Android)

Convert

Software apps that convert rar files:

WinRAR (Microsoft Windows)

ALZip (Microsoft Windows)

sArchiver (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

ALZip for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

Import

Software apps that import rar files:

RAR Password Cracker (Microsoft Windows)

iPack (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

Export

Software apps that export rar files:

iPack (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

Extract

Software apps that extract rar files:

WinRAR (Microsoft Windows)

7-zip (Microsoft Windows)

WinZip (Microsoft Windows)

ALZip (Microsoft Windows)

PeaZip (Microsoft Windows)

B1 Free Archiver (Microsoft Windows)

IZArc (Microsoft Windows)

FilZip (Microsoft Windows)

KuiaiZip (Microsoft Windows)

RAR for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

sArchiver (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

StuffIt Expander for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

The Unarchiver (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

ALZip for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

iPack (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

Decompressor (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

RAR for Linux (Linux/Unix)

Xarchiver (Linux/Unix)

WinZip for iOS (Apple iOS)

iZip (Apple iOS)

RAR for Android (Google Android)

Recover

Software apps that recover rar files:

WinRAR (Microsoft Windows)

RAR Password Cracker (Microsoft Windows)

Advanced RAR Repair (Microsoft Windows)

RAR Password Recovery (Microsoft Windows)

.rar (2)

Java JCA Resource Adapter module

File type category:
Various data file

Date updated: June 3, 2019

The rar file extension is also sometimes used for Java JCA Resource Adapter module files.

Java Connector Architecture (JCA) is a standard that provides a uniform method for talking to different kinds of Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) from an application server.

JCA is designed to facilitate sharing of data and to integrate new J2EE applications with legacy or other heterogeneous systems.

How to open rar file?

These modeules are related to Java, perhaps only way to work with them is through that.

How to convert rar file?

This type of RAR files cannot be converted.

Suggested software to open rar file:

Java

Associated software actions with the rar file

Other actions

Software applications that handle other tasks involving rar files:

Java (Multiplatform)