ZIP is another popular archive format used widely on the internet. If you don’t have a RAR extractor software (more on it below), you cannot view the content contained in it. RAR files can only be opened with special software that extracts the content of the file for you to use them. You can consider a RAR file as a briefcase containing other files and folders.
A file with RAR extension is a compressed file containing more than one file or folders. RAR (Roshal Archive), named after its developer Eugene Roshal, is one of the most popular file compression formats.