Extract ZIP Files Online

A common reason to reach for this tool is a ZIP that landed in your inbox or a download folder and you would rather not install WinRAR, 7-Zip, or any unzip app to peek inside it. Drop the .zip onto the page and it reads the archive structure locally, then lists every file and folder with sizes and types so you can see what is inside before committing to anything.

Because everything happens in the browser, this works the same on a phone or tablet as it does on a laptop. On iPhone, iPad, or Android there is often no built-in way to open a ZIP and pull out one file, so opening it here, browsing the tree, and downloading just the file you need fills a real gap. The dropzone accepts ZIPs up to 300 MB.

A search box filters the tree by name, which is handy when an archive holds hundreds of entries and you only care about one invoice, one photo, or one config file. Files whose type can run code, such as .exe or .js, are highlighted so you notice them before opening anything.

Every file in the tree has its own download button. Click it and that file is decompressed in your browser and saved on its own under its own name, with no wrapper ZIP to open afterwards. That is the quickest path when you need one attachment out of a big archive.

When you want several files, tick them (or tick a whole folder) and the button below the tree downloads them together as a smaller ZIP named after the original with a -selected suffix. The files keep their folder paths, and their compressed bytes are copied as they are, so nothing is recompressed or altered on the way.

The button shows how many files you have ticked and their combined uncompressed size, so you know roughly how big the result will be before you download it. There is no separate "download everything" button, because the ZIP you opened already is everything.

This tool does not open password-protected ZIPs. When an archive is encrypted it says so and points you to Extract Password-Protected ZIP, which decrypts both AES and the older ZipCrypto method in your browser once you enter the password.

Other problems get their own message rather than a silent failure: a damaged or incomplete file, a different format such as RAR or 7z renamed to .zip, or a ZIP compressed with Deflate64, BZIP2 or LZMA, which some 7-Zip and Windows settings produce and browsers cannot read. Archives with more than around 10,000 entries can be slow, and a very large archive on a low-memory phone may struggle where a desktop would cope.