LanguageRAR5
WinRAR 5 compressed archive
File type: Archive and compressed file
An rar5 file extension is related to the WinRAR compression utility and it is used to identify WinRAR 5 compressed archives.
What is rar5 file?
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Date updated: July 19, 2025
The rar5 file extension is associated with the WinRAR a compression tool for Microsoft Windows operating system. In the current version number 5 was introduced a new compression algorithm RAR5.
RAR5 features:
- 1GB dictionary (only in 64-bit version)
- better multicore support
- removes multimedia, text and itanium binaries special compression algorithms
This compression format cannot be managed by older versions of WinRAR.
How to open rar5 file?
Use WinRAR to open *.rar5 compressed archives.
How to convert rar5 file?
You can extract *.rar5 archives and repack RAR format to different archive format simply by extracting the contents of the archive and compressing them after to different format.
Suggested software to open rar5 file:
Associated software actions with the rar5 file
Software applications that can open rar5 files:
WinRAR (Microsoft Windows)
7-zip (Microsoft Windows)
RAR for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
RAR for Linux (Linux/Unix)
Software applications that can edit rar5 files:
WinRAR (Microsoft Windows)
Software capable of saving rar5 files:
WinRAR (Microsoft Windows)
Software apps that create rar5 files:
WinRAR (Microsoft Windows)
RAR for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
RAR for Linux (Linux/Unix)
Software apps that extract rar5 files:
WinRAR (Microsoft Windows)
7-zip (Microsoft Windows)
RAR for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
RAR for Linux (Linux/Unix)