Archives: Opens any format

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It’s free and it works well. I can an open an archive from pretty much anywhere using the share menu.

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.

useful

Great application. Very useful. Basic. Thanks.

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.