# Archives: Opens any format — user reviews > 35 indexed App Store user reviews of Archives by MacPaw Way Ltd, rated 4.10/5 from 42 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/archives-opens-any-format/id562790811/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/archives-opens-any-format/id562790811.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 29 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 6 ## Newest reviews (10 of 35) ### 4/5 — Low on Features *2019-01-09* 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. ### 3/5 — Lacking *2018-05-10, version 2.1* Seen better, doesn't have wifi file transfer or ability to store files. Its a file opener and thats about it. The save images from pdf is its only redeeming fearure ### 4/5 — Always on *2016-09-15, version 2.1* 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. ### 5/5 — Sick *2013-06-06* Adds much needed functionality, very refined and crisp ### 5/5 — Great! *2013-05-31* 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 ### 4/5 — unicode troubles *2013-04-22, version 1.3* Trouble with unicode (russian language) on 7zip crypted archives. if you fix it, i change my rating. ### 5/5 — It's top notch! *2013-01-31, version 1.2* A must buy if you do serious file work! ### 4/5 — Good but not enough *2013-01-16, version 1.2* Would like the ability to compress and directly link to cloud storages, but already worth 1 dollar as it is. ### 5/5 — Great app! *2013-01-16, version 1.2* This is a really great app that is worth the money. With it, I unzip any file. I think that this is the best app for unzipping. ### 5/5 — Never knew this existed *2013-01-01* 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. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — aw man *2025-10-07* doesn’t work :( ### 1/5 — 2025 an update would be very nice *2025-10-04* We are in ios 26 and its been 6 years from last update ### 1/5 — Couldn’t open a bin file *2022-03-04, version 2.1.1* It says it opens bin files but wouldn’t work no matter how I tried. ### 1/5 — Ridiculous *2019-10-03* 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. ### 1/5 — Opens Any ... ? *2018-11-19, version 2.1.1* Absolutely a false claim as I could not open an installer archive package (.pkg) file. ### 1/5 — Waste of money *2015-11-15, version 2.0* Bought it worked great applied update. Now won't even launch. Very frustrating ### 2/5 — Lacks unarchiving functionality *2023-05-11* 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. ### 2/5 — Design *2019-04-02, version 2.1.1* 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 ### 2/5 — Nice UI, otherwise useless *2013-03-09, version 1.2* 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. ### 3/5 — Does the job but slightly buggy. *2024-10-02, version 2.1.1* It’s very clear that the application is no longer updated frequently due to the numerous graphical issues the application has. It’s a shame because the ‘unarchiver’ by the same company on Mac is really good. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Please add dark mode! *2023-11-26* Please add dark mode! ### 5/5 — Simple, straightforward, no bloat *2022-01-16* 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. ### 5/5 — Perfect *2018-10-28* It’s free and it works well. I can an open an archive from pretty much anywhere using the share menu. ### 5/5 — Free and fast! *2018-07-20, version 2.1* This is the only uncompress app that opens 7z without any fuzz. Super easy to use and use iCloud files correctly. ### 5/5 — Works perfect and no other app could *2018-06-25* 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. ### 5/5 — 👍🏼 *2018-06-22* useful ### 5/5 — Five star 💫👍 *2018-05-09* Great application. Very useful. Basic. Thanks. ### 5/5 — Nice update! Thanks!! *2016-05-20* Best of the best on the AppStore and Mac AppStore. Thanks for the update! ### 5/5 — Essential *2015-11-13* Love this when needing to open zip archives. ### 5/5 — Top decompression for iOS *2014-12-23* 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. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*