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iPhone

About Archives: Opens any format

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.

What's New in the Latest Version 2.1.1

Last updated on Oct 5, 2018

Old Versions

• Fixes to make Archives run smoothly on iOS 12.

Version History

2.1.1

Oct 5, 2018

• Fixes to make Archives run smoothly on iOS 12.

2.1

May 18, 2016

* Support for RAR version 5 archives.
* Handle opening archives with huge number of parts better.
* Bug fixes for zip64, NSIS, and Squeeze.

2.0

Nov 13, 2015

* New look to better match modern iOS versions.
* Many other fixes for iOS 8 and 9.
* Full screen mode for previews.
* Better support for Zip, 7z, gzip and NSIS files.
* Bugfixes for pax and ARJ.
* Fixes for a few crashing bugs.

1.5

Sep 24, 2013

* Updated visual design for iOS 7.
* Add support for PMA files.
* Better support for broken Zip files.
* Fix bugs in handling of NSIS and MSI files.

1.4

Jul 14, 2013

* Added support for XIP files.
* Fixed some crashes and unsupported files for RAR.
* Better support for RAR Mac OS X SFX files.
* Fixed crashes for certain CAB and PDF files.
* Added support for comments in Amiga LhA files.

1.3

Mar 22, 2013

* Fix a bug that would make files with invalid filenames not work in Zip and Exe files.
* Fix some small memory leaks.
* Read-only attributes for files in archives are now ignored. This caused some files not to extract correctly in older versions.
* Fix a bug with parsing Tar files.

1.2

Jan 5, 2013

* Added the ability to send archives and files contained in archives by email.
* Added support for the Internet Archive WARC format.
* Fixed bugs in XAR/.pkg, CAB, HQX and Compress.
* Fixed a few more rare bugs and crashes.

1.1

Nov 17, 2012

* Added support for password-protected 7z files.
* Better support for very old StuffIt archives, including password-protected ones.
* Worked around some bugs in iOS 6 that could make the preview crash.
* Various bugfixes for PDF, hqx, sitx

1.0

Oct 10, 2012

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