It can create RAR and ZIP and unpack ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, 7z, ISO, and ARJ archives. The 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, and utilizing multiple CPU cores to compress data.

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

RARLAB’s RAR is an all-in-one, original, free, simple, easy, quick compression program, archiver, assistant, extractor, manager, and even a primary file explorer.