7-Zip provides better compression, and supports more archive formats. But, WinRAR has a built-in recovery record which protects archives from damages (To protect archives with 7-Zip you need to use an extra program like MultiPar). In addition to this, WinRAR has a superior multi-parts archive feature, which lets you open any part of the archive even if you still don't have the other parts (7-Zip has only a basic splitting method).
I used WinRAR most of my life, but I changed to 7Zip like 6 years ago and I have to say that it's a big and better difference. 7Zip does stuff way faster and easier plus it's not doing the annoying pop-up with the payment wall.
@@Seragin you don't need to pirate it, the company allows you to use the software even after the 40 day trial and they don't care if you don't buy the license
At the moment 7-Zip LZMA2 has 6% better compression ratio for large files compared to WinRAR, but 7-Zip also uses more RAM to decompress and compress. Since 7-Zip is free and WinRAR is also good, it's not a difficult choice. Use whichever one you personally like. You can use WinRAR without buying it but I bought a license anyway because of their good job with WinRAR and competition is very important. RARv5 appears to have high redundancy against data loss/degradation meaning it is best suited for _important_ backups like keys and recovery archival purposes.
@@arthurlunar7835 Because I am not a mean person, I like WinRar, it is not expensive and they ASKED me to pay after trying it. I am a strong advocate for piracy and anti-copyright, but these developers deserve the money outrightly because they only ASK that I pay.
To be honest, both are so useful and of a tiny filesize, it's best just to use both on your system. You have almost every archive situation covered. Both are pretty much 'free' in practice, since WinRAR has it's infinite trial period (I mean, who really cares about a nag screen?).
I personally use 7-zip. Surprisingly, it is about the best piece of bloatware I’ve ever gotten on a system. I believe it came on my cheap all in one HP for some bizarre reason. Of course it was programmed incorrectly to open nearly every file I tried to download making it difficult to use until I fixed it. However, now I use 7-zip all the time and you could never get me to use WinRAR. I simply prefer the interface or 7-zip and don’t like the intrusive nature of WinRAR.
In my experience you clearly need both. Sometimes, there is no way around 7-zip as some archives can only be unpacked by this prog. And Winrar is good for .rar, a little bit easier to use and should be standard already in Windows anyway.
Yeah you drag apps onto the bar (Left click icon, hold, and release). A second way you can do it is to have to an app open and to right click on the app - then they'll be an option called pin to taskbar.
@@subboytris8946 Perhaps because of less RAM usage, but the 40 day trial is irrelevant. 7zip is freeware so it can be used forever although so does WinRAR albeit with "evaluation copy" added to it. Both are great, it just depends on what the user wants it for. 7zip at its best compresses files a bit better than WinRAR, but nothing significant (wish it was, though).
Still using winrar as i always got used to it RAR5 is pretty much on par with 7zip anyway but one thing i love with winrar is that 99% of the time you can just run programs within the archive without extracting it somewhere and it will work just fine while with 7zip (and other archive software) it will not work if the program try to load multiple .dlls or other files (it will or not load at all or behave weirdly)
How do you solve header errors when trying to open a corrupted file with 0KB after an extraction using 7-Zip or a header error trying to repair this corrupted file (being a photo) using WinRAR or WinZip?
Both are great and for a while I used 7zip, but went back to WinRAR. I noticed the compression in its maximum level (Best) compared 7z vs RAR wasn't really significant so I returned to the one I've always preferred... WinRAR. 😅
Have you noticed that winrar fails some big zipfiles but 7z was fine? One person had problems to extract one patreon game and after redownloading it it still failed to extract. Then I asked to test 7z and it was fine with that zip file.
I paid for Winrar 4.0 way back ... ??? Needed the repair function a number of times ... it never worked. 7 Zip is free and works great! It can even crunch the file smaller ... maybe thats why Winrar is faster. And I rather have smaller file ... etc.
@@funguy8801 True ... but I hardly use Winrar anymore ... 7 Zip will extract .rar files. If I need to save .rar files I zip it using 7 zip ... etc. 7 zip does it all for free ...
@@wapperjaw8282 I don't think 7zip supports RAR4 and RAR5 compression though. Which is fine if you only uncompress your own 7zip compressed files. But, if someone else has used those WinRAR compression algorithms, 7zip cannot process those files and will tell you the file is corrupt when it isn't ( you just need a newer version of WinRAR that supports those profiles.)
@@funguy8801 7 zip ... it will uncompress for rar4 format ... not sure about rar5 and up. But 7 zip will not compress a file\folder to .rar format ... only .7z or .zip. Go to > options system tab for more details ...
@@wapperjaw8282 Okay, I may not have the latest version of 7zip installed. But, I don't think even the latest 'stable release' of 7zip supports RAR5. Perhaps the beta version might.
If asked to me, I would say `` I prefer WinRaR. '' The reason is that WinRaR has more features and does not download only RaR or zip files, but of course, 7zip is a very useful program from WinRaR. One of its better features is that it does not pop-up. WinRaR warns you to buy WinRaR after 40 days, but my preference is definitely WinRaR.
WinRar only, 7zip i never like. Also no repair file is big deal for me. I rly hate 7zip i try it meny times and i alweys back winrar. All tell win rar is old and forget format then tell me only one why moust file in network use rar archive?
Um, shouldn't you talk about how much the file size is reduced in x amount of time? A graph with compression rate on one axis and time spend on that compression on the other with different formats and different programs using different colors that would be a interesting comparison... Especially when using several different CPUs. So one with just a few cores, one with more, one AMD and one Intel. Ryzen is doing great in compression and de-compression for instance.
Ahh, okay. Well, fortunately I don't encounter .rar files often. Most all zip files I've made were done with WinZip, so no problem. I did use WinRAR for awhile over a decade ago, but only to open .rar files others had made.
i use winrar because 7-zip was gonna corrupt my computer so i uninstall it fast enough eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee i dont use windows 7 i use windows 10
Ok so really which is better 7-zip vs Winrar ok so now 7-zip is free and give highly compressed files while Winrar give more than that file and 7-zip also give many features but better than Winrar the 7-zip is much better why? it do the similar things like Winrar it can copy paste and many more the installation is so simple and easy and also you don't have pop-ups buy Winrar give you buy the license pop-ups but the company doesn't care if you don't want to buy so that's the comparison of it Also sub to my channel I make tutorials and gaming videos Thanks!
Or .7z for that matter. I don’t understand why the default one doesn’t support it though when the Windows XP setup literally extracts a .7z file for the installation.
Cranges McBasketball perhaps Princess was referring to was that the owners of WinRAR prefer users only DL direct from the source as a measured attempt to keep users from DLing potentially compromised versions that may contain malware. But yeah, I agree with you that _open source is better_ (for more experienced and skilled users).
7-Zip provides better compression, and supports more archive formats. But, WinRAR has a built-in recovery record which protects archives from damages (To protect archives with 7-Zip you need to use an extra program like MultiPar). In addition to this, WinRAR has a superior multi-parts archive feature, which lets you open any part of the archive even if you still don't have the other parts (7-Zip has only a basic splitting method).
I used WinRAR most of my life, but I changed to 7Zip like 6 years ago and I have to say that it's a big and better difference. 7Zip does stuff way faster and easier plus it's not doing the annoying pop-up with the payment wall.
I use 7-zip. I don't get annoyed with "Please buy WinRAR license" pop-ups.
Seragin why would you want to do that if you could just use 7zip
@@Seragin you don't need to pirate it, the company allows you to use the software even after the 40 day trial and they don't care if you don't buy the license
its not that annoying
bro I use winrar for like 13 years and I transfered all the old pc apps on my new pc from 2015 and I didn't even get that pop up.
@@rixgeo must be pirated or something
At the moment 7-Zip LZMA2 has 6% better compression ratio for large files compared to WinRAR, but 7-Zip also uses more RAM to decompress and compress.
Since 7-Zip is free and WinRAR is also good, it's not a difficult choice. Use whichever one you personally like. You can use WinRAR without buying it but I bought a license anyway because of their good job with WinRAR and competition is very important.
RARv5 appears to have high redundancy against data loss/degradation meaning it is best suited for _important_ backups like keys and recovery archival purposes.
@Vatan Kömürcü ever heard of support?
Financially carrying winrar.
Who buy winrar lmao,its a infinite 30-day trial and you can pick a free working key on youtube
@@arthurlunar7835 Because I am not a mean person, I like WinRar, it is not expensive and they ASKED me to pay after trying it.
I am a strong advocate for piracy and anti-copyright, but these developers deserve the money outrightly because they only ASK that I pay.
@@christoffer4862 You know that the trial is infinite right?
Was looking for an actual decompression test between the two. Im decompressing two terabytes of files so no, it's not a couple minutes.
Same...
Pretty sure the decompression time would be very similar considering they're using the same algorithms per each archive type
Eh the difference is barely noticable anyways so doesn't matter which of those you'll choose.
To be honest, both are so useful and of a tiny filesize, it's best just to use both on your system. You have almost every archive situation covered. Both are pretty much 'free' in practice, since WinRAR has it's infinite trial period (I mean, who really cares about a nag screen?).
Actually, you can activate WinRAR for free easily. You only have to pay for the license if you want to support the developper.
i care.
@@REXae86 Then buy a licence.
@Detective you care
@Detective What you mean ?
I personally use 7-zip. Surprisingly, it is about the best piece of bloatware I’ve ever gotten on a system. I believe it came on my cheap all in one HP for some bizarre reason. Of course it was programmed incorrectly to open nearly every file I tried to download making it difficult to use until I fixed it. However, now I use 7-zip all the time and you could never get me to use WinRAR. I simply prefer the interface or 7-zip and don’t like the intrusive nature of WinRAR.
I mean, it's free in the first place.
@@joeywilhelm6123 literally.
@@joeywilhelm6123 But no ones buy winrar,its a infinite 30 day trial
@@arthurlunar7835 yeah ik, the infinite 40 day trial 😂
@@joeywilhelm6123 idk why people get annoyed with a simple popup from a 40 day infinite trial 😂😂😂
In my experience you clearly need both. Sometimes, there is no way around 7-zip as some archives can only be unpacked by this prog. And Winrar is good for .rar, a little bit easier to use and should be standard already in Windows anyway.
7zip doesn't have that annoying trial thing.
@@namebrandketchup2048 no shit sherlock. if it was that easy of a destinction nobody would be using WinRAR because it's so fucking obvious
@@JackPorter I'm curious as to what archives WinRAR can extract that 7zip can't?
I would prefer WinRAR if it was free. I don’t open compressed files very often but when I do I use ”weird” formats like .ISO. So 7-zip perfect to me.
Chris, can you tell me how you got those desktop tabs for the (games)(apps), I want to do the same thing, if not, thank you anyway.
Yeah you drag apps onto the bar (Left click icon, hold, and release). A second way you can do it is to have to an app open and to right click on the app - then they'll be an option called pin to taskbar.
@Michael Goodell
The software used for those tabs you're mentioning is *Stardock Fences 3*
@@1.618_Murphy Thanks that helped me I think Chris completley missed the question :D
I just want to know which one is better for extracting my pirated copy of 3ds games?
WinRAR is superior because of the unlimited 40 day trial and uses less RAM
@@subboytris8946 Perhaps because of less RAM usage, but the 40 day trial is irrelevant. 7zip is freeware so it can be used forever although so does WinRAR albeit with "evaluation copy" added to it.
Both are great, it just depends on what the user wants it for.
7zip at its best compresses files a bit better than WinRAR, but nothing significant (wish it was, though).
Still using winrar as i always got used to it
RAR5 is pretty much on par with 7zip anyway
but one thing i love with winrar is that 99% of the time you can just run programs within the archive without extracting it somewhere and it will work just fine
while with 7zip (and other archive software) it will not work if the program try to load multiple .dlls or other files (it will or not load at all or behave weirdly)
How do you solve header errors when trying to open a corrupted file with 0KB after an extraction using 7-Zip or a header error trying to repair this corrupted file (being a photo) using WinRAR or WinZip?
Both are great and for a while I used 7zip, but went back to WinRAR.
I noticed the compression in its maximum level (Best) compared 7z vs RAR wasn't really significant so I returned to the one I've always preferred... WinRAR. 😅
bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh good luck opening a 7z file bozo
@@Sharky_0456 winrar can open 7zip
@@lee-fc5bu oh
@@Sharky_0456goofy💀
so you concluded that 7zip was better and decided to use winrar anyway? got it...
Can 7 zip extract .rar files
yes
@@miso_sewp ok
Yes
I used to always use Winrar, but once I discovered 7zip supports more extensions and doesn't have ads I instantly switched and haven't looked back.
Have you noticed that winrar fails some big zipfiles but 7z was fine?
One person had problems to extract one patreon game and after redownloading it it still failed to extract. Then I asked to test 7z and it was fine with that zip file.
I put all the good freeware ones I could find, I even have peazip but I am considering removing that one.
7zip is the best for me but for some reason it went from 30mb\s to 100kb\s it took 9 hours to extract a file that is 4.4gb i dont know why
its also the best for me because its free and its also just i like it leave me alone i also make minecraft texture packs LOL
@@zalmanbukher8956 Yo 7 zip is better for Minecraft texture pack?
@@zalmanbukher8956 same
I use both in my system. They are both great!!!
@Abhik Dutta THANKS, WAITING FOR HIS/ HER, REPLY, THANKS!!!!!
.tar.gz is not an uncommon format...
.tar.gz files r better than rar and zip m8
tar.gz better
I am a 20 year user of windows computer and I would say I am above average knowledge on computers, and I never heard of .tar or .gz
2:00 "The odds of getting a corrupted Zip or RAR file are not that incredibly high"
... Oh, you poor sweet innocent download virgin. :)
Is it porh time now
How to unizip .bin files
Isn't that binary file?
i will go with 7 zip cuz gwtool (garry's mod addon extracter) doesnt support winwar
[GD] Geometrical Guy did it work?
wtf our profile pictures are similar
I paid for Winrar 4.0 way back ... ??? Needed the repair function a number of times ... it never worked. 7 Zip is free and works great! It can even crunch the file smaller ... maybe thats why Winrar is faster. And I rather have smaller file ... etc.
Just use both and have every situation covered.
@@funguy8801 True ... but I hardly use Winrar anymore ... 7 Zip will extract .rar files. If I need to save .rar files I zip it using 7 zip ... etc. 7 zip does it all for free ...
@@wapperjaw8282 I don't think 7zip supports RAR4 and RAR5 compression though. Which is fine if you only uncompress your own 7zip compressed files. But, if someone else has used those WinRAR compression algorithms, 7zip cannot process those files and will tell you the file is corrupt when it isn't ( you just need a newer version of WinRAR that supports those profiles.)
@@funguy8801 7 zip ... it will uncompress for rar4 format ... not sure about rar5 and up. But 7 zip will not compress a file\folder to .rar format ... only .7z or .zip. Go to > options system tab for more details ...
@@wapperjaw8282 Okay, I may not have the latest version of 7zip installed. But, I don't think even the latest 'stable release' of 7zip supports RAR5. Perhaps the beta version might.
If asked to me, I would say `` I prefer WinRaR. '' The reason is that WinRaR has more features and does not download only RaR or zip files, but of course, 7zip is a very useful program from WinRaR. One of its better features is that it does not pop-up. WinRaR warns you to buy WinRaR after 40 days, but my preference is definitely WinRaR.
winrar is best.
7-zip is faster and free software.
@@parimal20 They both are free im-
You can use right click option to compress or extract on winrar without getting the ad
whats faster for decompression?
7-zip
just get both
@Kevin Chen nope
Who else is scrolling in the comment section to see which one is better.
me
Me too
This dude has all of his pinned tabs on at the same time
Better to learn to use both in case either one isn’t available.
Win rar is best than 7zip for file safety and 7zip best for file compression
WinRar only, 7zip i never like. Also no repair file is big deal for me. I rly hate 7zip i try it meny times and i alweys back winrar. All tell win rar is old and forget format then tell me only one why moust file in network use rar archive?
Any 'how to install custom stories' vibe anyone? They're both free right?
7-zip!!! 7-zip!!! 7-zip!!!
7zip certainly.
7zip or adwere
Why not both? Both is good.
Unnecessary. One is enough.
thank you for the detailed explanation.
Um, shouldn't you talk about how much the file size is reduced in x amount of time?
A graph with compression rate on one axis and time spend on that compression on the other with different formats and different programs using different colors that would be a interesting comparison...
Especially when using several different CPUs.
So one with just a few cores, one with more, one AMD and one Intel.
Ryzen is doing great in compression and de-compression for instance.
Luredreier ryzen is not doing great in both compression and decompression...i let you figure out which.
7Zip can read all my corrupted files. Winrar doesn't, soo...
really？
@@aaposour3305 yeah, winrar on my friend computer keep saying that the file is corrupted, with 7zip not. so yep
7z compression is better than rar.
But why? Windows 10 has -a- built-in file zipping tools that work fine.
Because the build in tool can't open .rar files
Ahh, okay. Well, fortunately I don't encounter .rar files often. Most all zip files I've made were done with WinZip, so no problem. I did use WinRAR for awhile over a decade ago, but only to open .rar files others had made.
John Ratko then you just not download many mods for games since almost all most mod files require winrar, 7zip, etc
In my opinion the way windows handles zip files is strange, and of course there is the fact 7zip has support for many more file types
Built in tool is slow and doesn't support many formats.
I just use Total Commander.
Winrar ftw!!!
nah
nah
nah * 10^999
Nah
WinRAR has a more polished interface. this is where the money obviously used for? lol
i use winrar because 7-zip was gonna corrupt my computer so i uninstall it fast enough
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
i dont use windows 7 i use windows 10
how can 7zip corrupt your computer?
@@bongwaterbaptist i think he downloaded 7zipsinmypants instead of 7zip
You downloaded from some dodgy website. 🤣
Ok so really which is better 7-zip vs Winrar ok so now 7-zip is free and give highly compressed files while Winrar give more than that file and 7-zip also give many features but better than Winrar the 7-zip is much better why? it do the similar things like Winrar it can copy paste and many more the installation is so simple and easy and also you don't have pop-ups buy Winrar give you buy the license pop-ups but the company doesn't care if you don't want to buy so that's the comparison of it
Also sub to my channel I make tutorials and gaming videos
Thanks!
This guy is sweden isnt he?
yes, he is the entire country.
Sweden. lol
windows default one is good enough
If you don’t need to extract.rar
Or .7z for that matter. I don’t understand why the default one doesn’t support it though when the Windows XP setup literally extracts a .7z file for the installation.
The default is pretty unreliable hence why we use WinRAR/7z, even on Android.
WinZip still exists, but I wonder how many use it.
:O KRIS?!?!!
winrar!!
No
winrar is a closed source software so it kinda of has a advantage....
How does closed-source = advantage? That doesn't make any sense. If anything, open-source is better because people can tweak it however they like.
Cranges McBasketball perhaps Princess was referring to was that the owners of WinRAR prefer users only DL direct from the source as a measured attempt to keep users from DLing potentially compromised versions that may contain malware. But yeah, I agree with you that _open source is better_ (for more experienced and skilled users).
That's like saying Internet Explorer has an advantage over Google Chrome.
CalvinWinz but Google chrome is closed source...
In no case is close source better dude.
winrar for good device
7zip for old device or i3 devices and i2 devices
What are i2 devices?
wtf are you saying dude.
You have no idea what you're talking about, so stop talking.
this man invented i2 devices