Windows tray utility
unpakr watches the folders you choose. When an archive lands it is extracted in place and the original goes to the Recycle Bin — but only when the extraction came out completely clean.
$9.99 once. No subscription.
Windows 10 and 11 · about 3 MB · no account, no telemetry, fully offline
The archive has been extracted and the original is in the Recycle Bin.
01 · How it works
Point unpakr at Downloads, Desktop, or anywhere else you save things. It lives in the system tray — there is no window to keep open.
Keep working. Half-downloaded files are ignored until the download has actually finished.
The archive is unpacked next to itself and the original is sent to the Recycle Bin — if, and only if, everything went cleanly.
02 · Why it's safe
Deleting an archive is the risky part of unpacking it, so unpakr treats deletion as the exception rather than the rule. If anything is even slightly off, the original stays exactly where it is.
The original is deleted only when extraction exits completely clean. Any warning at all and the archive is left in place.
Originals go to the Recycle Bin. On drives that have no Recycle Bin they are moved into an _originals folder instead.
If an extracted file collides with one already on disk, the arriving file is renamed. What was already there survives untouched.
Add passwords to unpakr's password book and it unlocks them for you. Each one is tested before anything is unpacked, so a wrong password never writes a byte. Anything it cannot open is left completely untouched.
part1.rar, .7z.001, .zip.001 — every volume is removed together, or none of them is.
A file that is still being written is left alone until the download actually finishes.
See exactly what unpakr would extract and what it would delete, without it touching anything.
Over 20 archive formats, powered by a bundled copy of 7-Zip. There is nothing to install separately.
About 3 MB. No runtime, no dependencies, no account, no telemetry. It never needs the internet.
03 · Formats
Extraction is handled by a bundled copy of 7-Zip 26.02, so no separate install is required. Split volumes of these formats are handled as a single set. Installers and document formats such as .msi, .exe, .docx and .apk are deliberately left alone — they are archives underneath, but unpacking them is never what you want.
04 · Pricing
Not a subscription. Buy it once on whichever store you already use.
FAQ
No. $9.99 once, and it is yours. On the Microsoft Store there is a free 15-day trial first, with all features enabled. On Steam there is no trial; Valve's refund window covers you instead.
No. 7-Zip 26.02 is bundled inside unpakr. There is nothing else to install.
If the password is in your password book, unpakr unlocks and extracts it like any other archive. If it is not, the archive is left completely untouched — not extracted, not deleted, not moved. Passwords are never written to the log.
Yes. Originals go to the Recycle Bin, so you can restore them like any other file. On drives without a Recycle Bin they are moved to an _originals folder instead.
Yes. unpakr is fully offline — no account, no telemetry, no network calls at all.