Archives: Opens any format

Archives: Opens any format

By MacPaw Way Ltd

  • Category: Utilities
  • Release Date: 2012-10-10
  • Current Version: 2.1.1
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 5.95 MB
  • Developer: MacPaw Way Ltd
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
Score: 4.09755
4.09755
From 41 Ratings

Description

Archives is an unarchiving app for your iPhone or iPad that can open pretty much any archive file in existence. It is based on the extremely popular macOS app "The Unarchiver". It can open files that have been mailed to you, files you encounter on the web, or even files from your computer through iTunes file sharing. It lets you preview the files inside archives, such as text, images or music. If you have another app installed that can open a file, Archives can also use that app to open contained files. As it is based on The Unarchiver, it can handle a large number of different archive formats: Common formats like Zip, RAR, 7-zip, Tar, Gzip and Bzip2, as well as older formats like StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ and ARC. It can also handle other kinds of formats, like CD and DVD images such as ISO, BIN, MDF, NRG and CDI, many Windows self-extracting EXE files, and can even extract media from Flash SWF files and images from PDF files. See the Archives web page for a full list.

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Reviews

  • Lacks unarchiving functionality

    2
    By Completely original nickname 249673
    For an app called Unarchiver, it sure can’t unarchive anything. The functionality literally isn’t there. All you can do is preview the files in an archive, and I guess you can share individual files, but that’s useless if you have an archive to, you know, unarchive.
  • Simple, straightforward, no bloat

    5
    By Sqoonies
    This was made in the days where apps were written strictly for real use. No bloat, no adds, small footprint. Still comparable with the latest iOS. It’s a shame that developer kind of left it, but it really works, even for 7zip files. I really wish this app gains traction for the defacto archiver, as everything else is out to gain your information, serve you ads, and hold your information hostage unless you pony up some money. I hope the developer some day comes back and offers an updated version with the same utility and small footprint. I would definitely pony up some cash for something that is actually useful from todays bloated mess of an app marketplace.
  • Ridiculous

    1
    By A. Sweeney
    This app “works” in that I just used it to open and save the contents of a RAR archive on my iPad... but it works extremely poorly and not at all like The Unarchiver for macOS. Each file had to be previewed and then saved individually... dumb. I want to extract the archive all at once and save it all at once, which I’m pretty sure everyone wants. That’s how The Unarchiver works.
  • Design

    2
    By Mohammady7596
    Old design and have extra option(full screen and preview)is same. Change the place of info and show.add downloader url, zip the file,scan qr code,file transfer with wifi,open file from cloud service and rar opener and de rar it again
  • Low on Features

    4
    By jfm429
    You can open an archive and individual files within it. However, you can’t: * Extract all the files at once onto iCloud Drive or local storage * Compress existing files into an archive, or recompress an archive in a different format * Export the archive in any way other than by emailing it It allows you to open an archive and extract single files. But opening an archive one file at a time manually is pretty terrible.
  • Perfect

    5
    By Eej
    It’s free and it works well. I can an open an archive from pretty much anywhere using the share menu.
  • Works perfect and no other app could

    5
    By modrepo.com
    This app unarchived .gz files for me when no other app could and it’s FREE?!!! Nice UI too. Shout out to the dev. Thanks so much.
  • 👍🏼

    5
    By jeyhunali
    useful
  • Five star 💫👍

    5
    By Füsun Ferah
    Great application. Very useful. Basic. Thanks.
  • Always on

    4
    By mrdogheadSHoGoAT
    Once I turned this app on it stayed on - all the time, even when I turn it off. And it becomes active again seemingly on its own. And the author, on his web site, employs Unicode in a way that makes me worry about his intentions because his open-source code is also written in a way that has "hacker" written all over it. And that would be fine if his app stayed off when I give the relevant instruction. Now, the operating system is not blameless in this sort of behavior. We get far too little say in what runs on these devices and what does not at any given time, and we have little tooling available either to direct traffic or to review what has happened on the system. That said, developers need to give us a break and to be straightforward or/and forthright about running and not running their apps and about what the apps are doing while they run. I want to like Archives, because it appears to be the most complete app of its type and because I had to pay to get it. I cannot yet trust it, however. Please explain why the app wants to stay on all the time or provide a way to shut it off. The usual method appears to be insufficient in this case. Otherwise, for unarchiving, it looks good.

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