# WinRAR Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 WinRAR Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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WinRAR

## What is WinRAR?

WinRAR archiver is a powerful software for processing RAR and ZIP files. This product manager allows users to backup data, reduce email attachment sizes, open and unpack RAR, ZIP, and other downloaded files, and create new archives in RAR and ZIP formats.

## What is WinRAR used for?

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Based on 359 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

Positive

97%

Neutral

2%

Negative

1%

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Ease Of Use

4.7 (359)

Ease Of Use

4.7 (74)

Value For Money

4.6 (250)

Value For Money

4.4 (67)

Customer Service

4.3 (223)

Customer Service

4.5 (70)

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## Who uses WinRAR?

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## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Archiving & Retention

4.7 (163)

59.51% of 163 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

WinRAR offers quick archiving and retention, letting you compress, encrypt, and organize files efficiently. Some reviewers find password protection and data integrity valuable, and appreciate that compressed files save space and remain undamaged during archiving or extraction.

Storage Management

4.7 (158)

58.23% of 158 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

With this capability, you can compress files to save device storage and manage large documents easily. Reviewers appreciate the reduction in file size, ease of locating files, and strong data protection against malware, though some mention slower compression for very large files.

Document Management

4.6 (146)

54.11% of 146 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

It helps you organize, encrypt, and share documents with ease. Reviewers indicate that managing multiple files is simple, password protection keeps documents secure, and the interface allows quick access, though some mention the interface feels outdated.

Match & Merge

4.4 (126)

50.79% of 126 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

WinRAR gives you the ability to merge and match files of various types into single archives. Users think merging is fast and practical, streamlines organization, prevents duplication, and makes sharing or backing up files easier, especially for large document collections.

File Management

Create, save, and store files

User Interface

A visual way of interacting with a computer using items such as windows, icons, and menus, used by most modern operating systems

WinRAR 6 features

WinRAR offers quick archiving and retention, letting you compress, encrypt, and organize files efficiently. Some reviewers find password protection and data integrity valuable, and appreciate that compressed files save space and remain undamaged during archiving or extraction.

It helps you organize, encrypt, and share documents with ease. Reviewers indicate that managing multiple files is simple, password protection keeps documents secure, and the interface allows quick access, though some mention the interface feels outdated.

Create, save, and store files

WinRAR gives you the ability to merge and match files of various types into single archives. Users think merging is fast and practical, streamlines organization, prevents duplication, and makes sharing or backing up files easier, especially for large document collections.

With this capability, you can compress files to save device storage and manage large documents easily. Reviewers appreciate the reduction in file size, ease of locating files, and strong data protection against malware, though some mention slower compression for very large files.

A visual way of interacting with a computer using items such as windows, icons, and menus, used by most modern operating systems

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Features

4.6 (359)

4.6

Based on 359 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

4.6 (250)

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4.6

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## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

4.3 (223)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

4.3 (223)

4.3

Based on 223 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.8

Based on 359 reviews

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5(282)

4(68)

3(7)

2(2)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

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TB

Travis B.

Solutions Engineer

Telecommunications

### "Extraction and Extracting made simple"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

June 17, 2025

The product is quick and easy to use. It really is a well designed product with an easy GUI to navigate. It is compatible with just about every type of ZIP file out there.

Pros

It can zip/extract just about any file type out there. It's a quick, lightweight installation and is super simple to use.

Cons

I wish it was a totally free product. It does what many other free products do so it's hard to justify the cost sometimes.

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MK

MOHAMED K.

Computer Facilitator

Higher Education

### "Facilitates in storing large technical documents"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

June 16, 2025

Pros

I have always used WinRAR in archiving software releases, documentation installations and encryption backups. Its profile and archiving preset levels of customization make it a preferred choice of repeated uses.

Cons

When archiving is automated in scripts I usually need to look up parameters outside rather than consult contextual help.

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JC

Jaya C.

System Engineer

Telecommunications

### "Reliable compression with every batch job"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

June 16, 2025

Pros

I liked the way that WinRAR deals with batch archiving, where one may choose dozens of files and make a single compressed file in a few seconds. Automatic split-volume enables me to attach large files without any difficulties.

Cons

It cause me with overwriting files without evident warnings during extraction, and I replace files accidentally when I have to do it quickly.

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RE

Raheel E.

IT Engineer

Construction

### "Manages passwords and ensures all files are intact"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

June 10, 2025

Pros

It was helpful that WinRAR allows users to also use compression types besides RAR and ZIP. Most of the time I deal with TAR, ISO, and CAB files, and using a single tool for them is convenient.

Cons

An issue I noticed is that unless I put all the parts of large files that are split across volumes into one folder, they won’t be extracted automatically.

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NB

Norhartinie B.

Software Engineer

Legal Services

### "Gives me flexibility in splitting archives"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

June 9, 2025

Pros

WinRAR handles additional archive formats beside RAR and ZIP that I like such as 7z and ISO. It compress large files quickly, without losing the data integrity which is important to me when I send big folders to clients or friends.

Cons

I find that WinRAR is not natively cloud backup integrated. Because of that I have to manually download and upload archives.

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MG

Maria G.

Cloud Engineer

Media Production

### "Extensive format support and good encryption features"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

June 5, 2025

Pros

WinRAR made it very handy to pack the files into an encrypted archive in case of sensitive data. That said, password protection built in is such a relief, I don’t have to use extra tools to send confidential documents safely.

Cons

ZIP recovery isn’t as reliable, causing problems when dealing with damaged files from external sources.

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JM

Jean M.

System Engineer

Machinery

### "Accepts various types of archives"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

June 2, 2025

Pros

When dealing with downloaded software or backup files split into a few data volumes, I’ve used WinRAR quite a lot. It accurately combines and extracts them, making it much easier to manage large datasets on my system.

Cons

It doesn't have automatic update checking. I’ve actually used an outdated version for weeks and ran into minor compatibility issues when extracting archives.

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AD

Ayman D.

Senior research fellow

Research

### "Good enough for my daily file compression needs"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

May 28, 2025

Pros

WinRAR makes handling big files compressing them quickly without losing data integrity a walk in the park for me. That allows me to share files from one platform to another with ease it also supports multiple archive formats.

Cons

I noticed that sometimes dealing with very large archives sometimes the extraction speed can be a bit slow.

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AM

Anthony M.

Ingénieur mécanique

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

### "WInrar : Simplicité et efficacité"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

May 20, 2025

L'expérience est globalement très positive , l'application est simple et efficace. Le seul petit point négatif est le fait que le logiciel soit payant.

Pros

\- le taux de compression est meilleur que la plupart des logiciels surtout sur des fichiers rar. - Il existe un grand nombre de formats disponibles - Logiciel simple et très intutif - Quelques fonctions avancées sont très utiles comme la réparation des fichiers endomagés par exemple

Cons

Le seul inconvénient est le fait que le logiciel soit payant. Sinon il n'y à rien à signaler de plus.

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RL

Raffaele L.

IT

Telecommunications

### "Software affidabile e potente"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

February 22, 2025

Nel complesso è una soluzione ottima e rappresenta una delle migliori soluzioni in circolazione.

Pros

E' un software facile da usare e supporta numerosi formati di compressione, come RAR, ZIP, 7Z, TAR e molti altri. Ha un'ottima velocità di compressione decompressione.

Cons

Non è completamente gratuito e presenta un'interfaccia un po' datata.

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