StuffIt for Mac

StuffIt Expander is a file compression as well as development utility that can manage a variety of various data archive layouts. It's a totally free app offered from the App Shop as well as a number of various other Internet site, and it installs swiftly.

StuffIt Expander sustains a variety of file formats, consisting of ZIP, ZIPX, 7ZX, RAR, and also TAR. The StuffIt Expander user interface is tidy, enabling you to create archives by the usual drag-and-drop technique or by food selection actions. Clicking an archive data can unbox that archive. You can add password protection to your ZIP data. There is a registration nag that shows up with StuffIt Expander, and also while you do not need to register to utilize the device, the nags will certainly obtain irritating as time passes.

We checked StuffIt Expander on a number of archive files developed by several approaches on various machines. While the app worked fine with ZIP as well as ZIPX data, we did have occasional problems with RAR documents, several of which StuffIt Expander simply could not open correctly. Whether this will certainly be taken care of quickly or otherwise remains to be seen. Since Mac OS X consists of an Archive energy, the real reason customers would certainly want a supplementary device is for RAR and various other archives not sustained by the included Archive application. However, since of these issues opening up RAR files, we uninstalled this app.

Editors' note: This is a review of the trial variation of Stuffit Expander 2011.15.0.4.