StuffIt Expander vs Unarchiver
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StuffIt Expander
Easily open and manage compressed files from various cloud storage services like iCloud, Box, Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive. View, share, or move expanded content to your preferred cloud provider. It also supports opening archives directly from the Files app.
- Open StuffIt and Zip archives
- Integrates with iCloud, Box, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive
- View expanded contents
- Email and share files
- Move expanded content to cloud providers
- Open archives from Files App
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Open StuffIt and Zip archives from iCloud or other Cloud Providers such as Box, Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive. View, email, share or move the expanded contents to your favorite cloud provider. You can also open a StuffIt archive from within the Files App.
Unarchiver
Easily extract, browse, and create archives. Supports a wide range of formats including RAR and ZIP, even password-protected ones. Preview files within archives without full extraction.
- Extracts various archive formats
- Browses archive contents
- Previews files within archives
- Creates new archives
- Supports password-protected archives
- Integrates with share sheets
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Unarchiver is a utility that supports extracting files/folders from archives, browsing, viewing documents in archives and creating archives from files/folders. It support reading rar, zip, 7z, cab, xar, tar, ar, iso, bz2, gz, lz4, lzma, lzip, xz, zst... formats. It also supports reading multi-volume archives and password protected archives. Open a document by opening from the Open an Archive button, or open from share sheet from other apps. Browse the archived contents, click on a folder to view contents of the folder, click on a file to preview the content of the file without unarchiving. Unarchive, unarchive selected items or all items in current directory Archive, by selecting files from the Create an Archive button, support passphrase encryption
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Unarchiver at 91% against StuffIt Expander's 20%. Unarchiver also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.1) and ratings volume (329 vs 7). StuffIt Expander's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Unarchiver holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Unarchiver has 329 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of StuffIt Expander's written reviews are positive against 91% of Unarchiver's.
StuffIt Expander ships an update every 9 days, Unarchiver every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StuffIt Expander | Unarchiver |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (7 ratings) | 4.6 (329 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 329 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Smith Micro Software, Inc. | 林峰 李 |
Customer experience
StuffIt Expander
Unarchiver
In-app purchases
StuffIt Expander
No in-app purchases
Unarchiver
No in-app purchases
