Open a .rar file

Drop it below. We read it inside your browser using a WebAssembly build of libarchive, so the file never gets uploaded anywhere. Works for both old and new RAR variants, and for archives locked with a password.

Drop your .rar here

or click to browse — .rar (v4 or v5), encrypted included

Password (if encrypted)

01.About the RAR format

RAR is a proprietary archive format that's been around since 1993. The author, Eugene Roshal, ships it as part of the WinRAR utility — which, famously, has been in “evaluation” mode since shortly after release. It compresses slightly better than ZIP on most content, which is why large game patches, eBook bundles, and pirate releases have historically preferred it.

The two versions you might encounter

RAR v4 — the legacy format. Still very common, especially for older files.
RAR v5 — introduced in 2013. Stronger encryption, better recovery records, larger file-name support. Anything modern WinRAR produces is v5.

This page handles both transparently. You don't need to tell it which version you have — it figures it out from the file header.

Password-protected RARs

Two kinds:

Data-encrypted — the file list is visible, but contents are locked.
Header-encrypted — even the file list is locked. You'll get “password required to list contents” until you supply the key.

Either way: type the password into the password field, then click Open Archive. The password is used only to decrypt locally; it isn't transmitted, logged, or stored.

Multi-volume RARs (.part1.rar, .part2.rar, …)

This is the one place where the browser-side approach falls short. The libarchive WASM build wants all volumes in memory at the same time, contiguously, and browsers don't expose multi-file selection in a way that maps cleanly onto that. If you have a split RAR, the most reliable path is to rejoin the volumes once with a desktop tool (7-Zip will do this in two clicks), then drop the resulting single archive here.

Why this is safer than “extract RAR online” tools that upload

Most “online RAR extractor” sites ask you to upload your archive, sit through a queue, then download the result. Your file ends up sitting on someone else's server — even if they say they delete it. unrarit does the work right here in your tab, so the file genuinely never leaves your device.