Rarlab: ((new))

Licenses are also cheap ($29 for a personal license, lifetime updates). And Rarlab has no VC investors demanding hockey-stick growth. The Roshal brothers own it outright. They are reportedly comfortable. Very comfortable.

The story of RARLAB began in when developer Eugene Roshal created the RAR (Roshal Archive) file format. Designed to provide significantly higher compression ratios than the then-dominant ZIP format, RAR quickly became a favorite for power users. Key milestones in the company's development include: rarlab