Open RAR, ZIP and 7z

A RAR attached to a WhatsApp chat or an email is a daily nuisance on a phone. Windows may open it, a laptop may not have WinRAR, and the upload sites that promise a free extractor want the whole file on their server. This page reads the archive in the tab you already have open. You see the paths and sizes first, then you pull out the one PDF, photo or spreadsheet you actually need. The rest can stay packed.

ZIP is the file people already trust: a folder of scans, a set of college notes, a vendor sending artwork, a backup of a small website. 7z is the tighter pack that 7-Zip and many download pages use. TAR, TAR.GZ and TGZ show up when a colleague on Linux or a hosting panel sends a folder. A lone .gz file is one document that was compressed on its own. All of those land in the same list, with the same preview and the same download button.

Preview is there so you do not have to save a file just to see if it is the right one. Text that looks like UTF-8, including notes, CSV, JSON and logs, is shown on the page. JPG, PNG, GIF and WebP are drawn in the list after you press Preview. SVG is shown only when it is a plain drawing: a script, an event handler or an embedded page is left out. Other types, such as a video or a program, are listed with a size so you can download them without a preview.

Long archives do not get a tiny scrolling box. The first twelve rows are shown, and Show all grows the card so the rest of the paths are on the page. Download all as ZIP walks the files and packs them with a simple stored ZIP, which is enough for a phone to share back to WhatsApp or Drive. If the archive says it would unpack past 500 MB, or it holds more than 5,000 files, or one file is over 200 MB, the page stops and says so instead of filling the tab with data.

Nothing in the archive is uploaded. The reader is a copy of libarchive, running in a worker that this site hosts itself. Your browser downloads that program once from taskninja.ai, then the bytes of your RAR or ZIP stay in the tab. There is no account, no queue, and no second copy on a server you cannot see. Close the tab and the working copy is gone. That is the point of doing this on a phone, where the file may be a salary slip, a tender, or family photos.

A password is typed into this page and handed only to that local reader. It is not stored and it is not sent with analytics. If the password is wrong, or the encryption is a kind this build cannot read, you get a short error and the files stay packed. The page also refuses types that are not archives, even when the name was changed, by checking the first bytes. A PDF renamed to .zip does not open as a ZIP.