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CBR to ZIP in 3 Steps
Upload CBR
That RAR file that won't open on your Mac.
Convert
We unpack, repack as ZIP. No quality loss.
Download ZIP
Now it opens everywhere. Done.
That's It
No step 4. You're already done.
Here's the Deal with CBR to ZIP
CBR is just a RAR file. RAR is a proprietary format owned by WinRAR. It's not that it's bad – it's actually pretty good compression. But it's not built into anything. You want to open a CBR on a Mac? Download The Unarchiver. On an iPhone? Get iZip or something. On a Chromebook? Hope it has a RAR app. It's friction. It's annoying.
ZIP is different. ZIP is older than most people reading this. It's been built into Windows since Windows 98. It's been in MacOS since before it was called MacOS. Linux? Has had ZIP tools since Linus was a student. Android? Open a ZIP like it's a folder. There's no "ZIP reader" because you already have one. It's just there.
So you've got a CBR file. Maybe it's a comic, maybe it's a collection of documents, maybe it's an installer that someone inexplicably packed as RAR. Drag it here. We take all the files out – keeping them in whatever order they were in, keeping any folder structure – and we pack them into a standard ZIP file. Then we give it a .zip extension. That's it.
Now you can double-click it. Or send it to someone who doesn't know what a RAR is. Or put it on a USB drive and know it'll open on your dad's Windows 7 PC. No software to install. No "trial version" popups. Just a file that works.
200MB limit. That's generous for most use cases. If you've got something bigger, it's probably a whole season of a TV show packed into one RAR – and you should probably split it anyway. No registration, no email, no upsell. Just a CBR that becomes a ZIP.
CBR to ZIP Questions (Real Ones)
It works on any CBR file. Comics are the most common use, sure. But if you've got a RAR archive full of photos, documents, or random files, this will turn it into a ZIP just fine.
Yes. We extract in the order the files are stored in the RAR, and we ZIP them in that same order. If the original had page001.jpg, page002.jpg, that's exactly what you get.
CBZ is a ZIP file with a different extension. It signals to comic readers that it's a comic archive. If you're reading comics, use CBZ. If you just need the files extracted or a generic archive, use ZIP. This tool does ZIP.
Usually ZIP is slightly larger. RAR compression is generally better than ZIP's deflate method. You might see a 5-10% increase. That's the price of universal compatibility.