Editor's Review
Android still has no dependable built-in answer for RAR files and only a partial one for ZIP, which is why archive utilities keep surfacing near the top of the Tools charts. This is one of the more heavily installed of them at 10M+, and it does the expected work: browse storage, open an archive, extract all or part of it, and compress files back into ZIP or 7Z when something has to go out by email.
Encrypted archives are supported in both directions, which counts for more than it sounds; plenty of free extractors read password-protected ZIPs but cannot produce them. A file browser with preview lets images and documents inside an archive be checked before extraction, and format support reaches past ZIP and RAR to 7Z, TAR and the compressed variants.
The score is the problem. An average of 3.95 across that many installs is a warning, and the recurring themes in this class of utility are advertising density and permission requests that reach further than the task requires. An archive tool needs storage access and not much else; anything beyond that deserves a look in the settings before being granted. Large files also extract slowly, though that is as much a hardware limit as a software one.
For occasional use it is fine. For daily archive work, a paid or open-source alternative will be quieter.
Features
Extraction of ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR and common compressed formats
Creation of ZIP and 7Z archives from selected files
Password protection when creating and password entry when opening
File browser with preview of images and documents inside an archive
Partial extraction so single files can be pulled from a large archive
Pros
Handles RAR, which the operating system will not do alone
Creates encrypted archives rather than only reading them
Free, with no account or configuration
Cons
The 3.95 average points to real frustration among its 10M+ installs
Advertising density is high for a utility this simple
Permission requests deserve reviewing before you grant them
Large archives extract slowly on modest hardware
Questions people ask
Can it open password-protected RAR files?
Yes, provided you know the password. No archive tool recovers a lost one, because the encryption belongs to the file format itself, and anything claiming otherwise is either guessing or lying.
Which permissions does it genuinely need?
Storage access, so it can read and write files. Requests reaching beyond that are worth questioning for a tool of this kind, and Android lets you refuse them individually in the system settings.
