# Extract Archive — Open RAR, 7Z and ZIP files on Mac

Open ZIP, TAR, GZ, 7Z, RAR and more without extra apps. Part of OneMacTools, 151 private tools in one native Mac app (macOS 26 or later); category: Files. Runs on your Mac; nothing is uploaded.

Extract common archive formats, including ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, 7Z, RAR and ISO, each into its own folder.

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## How to use it
1. **Drop your archives.** Drag in ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, TGZ, CPIO or ISO files. You can add a batch at once.
2. **Click Extract.** There's nothing to set. Each archive is unpacked using tools built into macOS.
3. **Find the contents.** Each archive gets its own folder, named after it, in a new dated folder in Downloads › OneMacTools. Use Show in Finder to open them. The archives themselves are kept.
4. **Tidy up.** Once you've checked the contents, you can delete the original archive files yourself if you don't need them.

## Options
- **No options:** Extract Archive has nothing to set. It recognises the archive type and unpacks each one into its own folder, so files from different archives never get mixed up.

## Tips
- Check what you downloaded before opening it. Archives from unknown senders can contain harmful files, like any download.
- If a site publishes a checksum for the download, check it with File Checksum before you extract.
- A .tar.gz or .tgz is unpacked in one step, straight to the files inside.
- Extracting a batch of ZIPs is quicker than double-clicking them one by one, and each lands in its own folder.
- Use Tidy a Folder afterwards if an archive unpacks into a jumble of loose files.

## Questions
**How do I open a RAR file on a Mac?**
Drop it onto Extract Archive and click Extract. The contents are saved in a folder named after the archive, with nothing extra to install.

**How do I open a 7Z file on a Mac?**
Drop the .7z file onto Extract Archive and click Extract. Its contents appear in their own folder in your OneMacTools folder.

**How do I extract a .tar.gz file?**
Drop it onto Extract Archive. The compression and the TAR are both unpacked in one step, so you get the files directly.

**Can I extract several archives at once?**
Yes. Drop them all in. Each archive is unpacked into a separate folder named after it.

**Can it open password-protected archives?**
No. Extract Archive doesn't ask for passwords, so encrypted ZIP, RAR and 7Z files need to be opened with the tool they were made with.

**Does it delete the archive after extracting?**
No. The archive stays where it was. Delete it yourself once you've checked the contents.