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title: "Archives: Opens any format - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
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"
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# Archives: Opens any format — United States
> See into any archive

![Archives App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple128/v4/25/a9/c4/25a9c4d1-37c1-d38e-97cd-bf2efabcec88/AppIcon-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-0-85-220-9.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [MacPaw Way](https://apptail.io/developer/macpaw-way-xpJ) (United States)
**Category:** Utilities
**Rating:** 4.0/5 (44 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** cx.c3.Archives
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 2.1.1 (released 2018-10-05)
**Original Release:** 2012-10-10
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id562790811)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/united-states)

## Archives 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.

## Archives Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/11/ab/fc/11abfc0d-743d-2f5d-bc17-6408a108be1b/mzl.vrgghckw.png/640x960.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple128/v4/4f/c0/32/4fc03290-d36f-c218-9030-7e9a34f51252/mzl.ygupzdkx.png/640x960.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/87/26/62/872662e6-5180-79fe-ca27-df36045d35f4/mzl.jhfessta.png/640x960.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple128/v4/18/b5/44/18b54471-75c0-ba62-ce15-33183fea2b62/mzl.ddejbdqx.png/640x960.png)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple128/v4/76/07/bc/7607bc9b-d3f3-4786-0156-9b7244bc20e0/mzl.jnlpdnnn.png/640x960.png)

## Archives Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 29 (66%)
- 4 stars: 4 (9%)
- 3 stars: 0 (0%)
- 2 stars: 3 (7%)
- 1 stars: 8 (18%)

## Archives Reviews in United States

### ***** "Please add dark mode!"
Please add dark mode!
-- Tim_171717, 2023-11-26

### **--- "Lacks unarchiving functionality"
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.
-- Completely original nickname 249673, 2023-05-11

### ***** "Simple, straightforward, no bloat"
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.
-- Sqoonies, 2022-01-16

### *---- "Ridiculous"
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.
-- A. Sweeney, 2019-10-03

### **--- "Design"
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
-- Mohammady7596, 2019-04-02

### ****- "Low on Features"
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.
-- jfm429, 2019-01-09

### ***** "Perfect"
It’s free and it works well. I can an open an archive from pretty much anywhere using the share menu.
-- Eej, 2018-10-28

### ***** "Works perfect and no other app could"
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.
-- modrepo.com, 2018-06-25

### ***** "👍🏼"
useful
-- jeyhunali, 2018-06-22

### ***** "Five star 💫👍"
Great application. Very useful. Basic. Thanks.
-- Füsun Ferah, 2018-05-09

### ****- "Always on"
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.
-- mrdogheadSHoGoAT, 2016-09-15

### ***** "Nice update! Thanks!!"
Best of the best on the AppStore and Mac AppStore. Thanks for the update!
-- Flanua, 2016-05-20

### ***** "Essential"
Love this when needing to open zip archives.
-- jcutler8, 2015-11-13

### ***** "Top decompression for iOS"
UnArchiver is, imho, the top decompression app for iOS. It handles a multitude of different compression types (including rare, outdated, and obscure types) and does it's job well.

Highly recommended with one caveat: the developer has yet to update UnArchiver to fully support iOS 8. If that were done, this app would be as quantitatively & qualitatively perfect as I've seen in an app.
--  Bookman , 2014-12-23

### ***** "Sick"
Adds much needed functionality, very refined and crisp
-- skeezy pete, 2013-06-06

### ***** "Great!"
Does exactly what its supposed to. Totally worth the money, made life a lot easier on my unjailbroken idevices and still super useful on my jailbroken ipad and iPod
-- rastacat213, 2013-05-31

### ****- "unicode troubles"
Trouble with unicode (russian language) on 7zip crypted archives. if you fix it, i change my rating.
-- rysmax, 2013-04-22

### **--- "Nice UI, otherwise useless"
Can't get a file out of this app. It's a dead end. If you want full functionality, but not the cleanest UI, try the unarchiver.
-- jordanr1186, 2013-03-09

### ***** "Never knew this existed"
Would have bought this sooner if I knew the developer of The Unarchiver made an iOS app.

Does what it says on the tin, and looks great too. Nice job.
-- nglevin, 2013-01-01

### ***** "Excelente"
La mejor aplicación para manejar archivos comprimidos en iOS
-- LuissCM, 2012-12-29

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## Archives Discovered Keywords
- archive utility
- the unarchiver
- archives


## Archives Available In
- [United States](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/united-states)
- [France](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/france)
- [Russia](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/russia)
- [China](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/china)
- [Germany](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/germany)
- [Ukraine](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/ukraine)
- [Mexico](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/mexico)
- [Canada](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/canada)
- [Japan](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/japan)
- [Spain](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/spain)
- [Italy](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/italy)
- [United Kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/united-kingdom)
- [Thailand](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/thailand)
- [Philippines](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/philippines)
- [Finland](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/finland)
- [Netherlands](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/netherlands)
- [Singapore](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/singapore)
- [Taiwan](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/taiwan)
- [Hong Kong SAR China](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/hong-kong)
- [Vietnam](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/vietnam)
- [Colombia](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/colombia)
- [Poland](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/poland)
- [Hungary](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/hungary)
- [Switzerland](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/switzerland)
- [Malaysia](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/malaysia)
- [Indonesia](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/indonesia)
- [Czechia](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/czechia)
- [South Korea](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/south-korea)
- [Romania](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/romania)
- [Slovenia](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/slovenia)
- [Tunisia](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/tunisia)
- [Armenia](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/armenia)
- [South Africa](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/south-africa)
- [Azerbaijan](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/azerbaijan)
- [Bulgaria](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/bulgaria)
- [Bahrain](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/bahrain)
- [Brunei](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/brunei)
- [Belarus](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/belarus)
- [Denmark](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/denmark)
- [Ecuador](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/ecuador)
- [Estonia](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/estonia)
- [Greece](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/greece)
- [Croatia](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/croatia)
- [Israel](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/israel)
- [Iceland](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/iceland)
- [Jordan](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/jordan)
- [Kuwait](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/kuwait)
- [Kazakhstan](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/kazakhstan)
- [Lebanon](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/lebanon)
- [Sri Lanka](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/sri-lanka)
- [Lithuania](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/lithuania)
- [Luxembourg](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/luxembourg)
- [Latvia](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/latvia)
- [Madagascar](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/madagascar)
- [North Macedonia](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/north-macedonia)
- [Mali](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/mali)
- [Malta](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/malta)
- [Nepal](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/nepal)
- [Pakistan](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/pakistan)
- [Portugal](https://apptail.io/app/archives-opens-any-format-yOWd/portugal)

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