RAR FORMAT
RAR Converters
Convert RAR archives to ZIP for universal compatibility or ISO for double-click mounting.
About RAR
RAR (Roshal Archive) was created by Eugene Roshal in 1993 and remains a proprietary format. It offers excellent compression ratios, solid archiving, recovery records for damaged archives, and spanning across multiple volumes. RAR5 (introduced 2013) improved encryption with AES-256 and added larger dictionary sizes for better compression.
Learn more: RAR on Wikipedia
While RAR can be freely extracted with tools like 7-Zip, creating RAR files requires a WinRAR license. This legal restriction limits RAR creation to licensed software. For this reason, we only support extracting from RAR and converting to other formats-not creating new RAR archives. Consider 7z for similar compression without licensing restrictions.
Quick Facts
- Extension
- .rar
- Developed By
- Eugene Roshal
- Year Introduced
- 1993
- Compression
- Proprietary
- Encryption
- AES-256 (RAR5)
- Recovery Records
- Supported
- License
- Proprietary
- Creation
- Requires WinRAR
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