Comparing Win Rar and Win Zip Software

If you are hanging over the fence with your choice of Win Rar and WinZip compression software, perhaps I can help you make that decision. You will see here why Win Rar is easily the best choice in every aspect of these ratings.

Trail Periods
Win Rar has a 40-day free unlimited trail to test the software on your own computer without limitations, while WinZip has a very unusual free trail only. You have to buy something from their partner and you get the trail.

Cost
Win Rar will cost $29.00 USD with free upgrades as long as you want the upgrades, while with WinZip will cost you $29.95 USD and every upgrade will cost you another $6.95 USD. (Prices based on 1/24/08) You are saving almost a dollar from the start with Win Rar, and over the lifetime of your addiction to win rar you could save hundreds of dollars over WinZip.

Ease of use
Win Rar's interface is very user friendly and easy to use, while WinZip's interface tends to make it harder to locate the files you want to compress. Both program have a wizard, drop and drop, and archive mode features. Only Win Rar has file management, search archive, and creation of compression archive profiles.

Operating systems
Win Rar will run on any operating system but WinZip is a windows based program only. You cannot use WinZip on Linux, Mac or any other operating system with Win Rar you can run it on any computer you have now ore in the future.

Uncompressing files
Win Rar makes self-extracting exe files while you need to unzip those files created by WinZip. If you feel the need to use WinZip to create your files, you will need to buy another program called WinZip self-extractor to open those files. Win Rar creates the compressed files and creates the exe files all in one program versus WinZip's two programs.

Extractions and Compressions
Win Rar will extract fourteen file types, while WinZip will only extract nine file types. Win Rar will compress Rar and zip files while win zip will only compress zip files.