RAR

RARLAB (published by win.rar GmbH)

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About this app

RARLAB's RAR is an all-in-one, original, free, simple, easy and quick compression program, archiver, backup tool, extractor and even a basic file manager.

RAR can create RAR and ZIP and unpack RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, 7z, ISO, ARJ archives. List of functions include repair command for damaged ZIP and RAR files, benchmark function compatible with RARLAB's WinRAR benchmark, recovery record, usual and recovery volumes, encryption, solid archives, utilizing multiple CPU cores to compress data.

Additionally to standard ZIP files, unzip function supports ZIP and ZIPX with BZIP2, LZMA, PPMd and XZ compression also as password protected ZIP. Unrar command is available for all versions of RAR archives including the latest RAR5, password protected and multipart files.

File management functions include copying, deleting, moving and renaming files and folders, creating new folders and installing applications from APK packages.

If you wish to help us translating RAR to your language, please download RAR for Android language files in "RAR extras" section of www.rarlab.com and follow instructions in readme.txt. Thank you.

Ratings and reviews

Limited use so far so can't say much. Seems to do a good job at the basics, which is really important. Only down side is the UI seems to have been designed by a 5 year old from an previously undiscovered tribe who has only recently discovered civilization and never seen a phone. Shame, seems pretty good otherwise. Think functionality shuttle or better, interface like sputnik.

Sometimes when extracting, extraction speed is slowed to a crawl by itself and does so in bursts of 5 files. Sometimes, it forgets that it is running in the background so it stops and I have to restart the process. Most of the time, it is doing both so not only do I have to keep restarting the process, I also have to make sure it doesn't forget itself by repeatedly going back to the app.

Mostly useless and inconvenient. Cannot cooperate with browser, cannot unzip. And fails without reporting the real problem.

What's new

Bugs fixed:

a) updating an encrypted file in a solid RAR archive produced a corrupt archive if updated file was the first in archive, no password was specified when starting updating and file name encryption in the updated archive wasn't enabled;

b) fixed a possible crash when processing a corrupt RAR archive.