The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for 'BOMArchiveHelper.app', the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is a handy, free replacement for the MacOS stock Archive Utility, giving you more control over how and where to compress and uncompress files. Unlike Mac’s native tool it’s sleeker and supports all known archive types.
The Unarchiver is the world’s favorite RAR opener for Mac. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than Archive Utility, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for 'Archive Utility.app', the built-in archive unpacker program in OS X.
It will also open many older formats, such as StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ and ARC. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR (including v5), 7-zip, Tar, Gzip and Bzip2. The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files.
