Extract ZIP
Drop a ZIP archive and out comes a list of what is inside: every file with its own button, and the folders where they belong. If you only need one, you download that one. The archive never leaves your device.
Your file stays on your device: nothing is uploaded
How it works
Folders are preserved: a file that lived in “photos/holiday” comes out with that path, and downloading everything gives you the tree as it was. Names read correctly even in old archives, where otherwise an accented word would come out garbled. Every extracted file is checked against the archive’s own checksum: if it does not match, that file is held back and named, while the others come through anyway. The entries macOS adds by itself are skipped and counted.
Frequently asked questions
- How big can the archive be?
- Each archive can weigh up to 200 MB and, once opened, hold up to 200 MB of files and no more than 2,000 files. You can drop up to 10 at once, 400 MB in total. If an archive goes over these limits you’re told straight away, before anything is extracted.
- There’s a ZIP inside the ZIP: does that open too?
- No: it comes out untouched, as a .zip file among the others. Download just that one, without downloading the rest, and drop it on this page again to open it in turn.
- Word and Excel files are ZIPs inside: can I open them?
- This page only takes .zip files. If what you need is the text of a .docx, .xlsx or .pptx document, use “Extract text from Office”: it pulls the text out without you having to take the file apart by hand.
- One file is damaged: can I still get the others?
- Yes: the healthy files come out as usual, and the ones that don’t match the archive’s checksum are listed by name and not handed to you, because a damaged file that looks whole is worse than a missing one. To get those back too, download the archive again or ask whoever sent it for a fresh copy. If every file is damaged, we tell you and nothing comes out.
Your files are never uploaded. Anywhere.
Your file stays in your browser’s memory: it is read, processed and written back here. There is no server to send it to.
- Processed locallyEverything happens on your device.
- Nothing to upload, nothing to wait forNothing to upload, no waiting.
- No files to deleteWe keep nothing: nothing reaches us.