REXLUTHOR  I was looking for a right click "create rar archive" option just like on windows or on the finder for zip archives. I finally found something that does this amazingly on a blog. Check this out:

http://stuffforlife.blogspot.com/2009/03/data-compression-in-mac-os-x-how-to.html

Hope this is useful.  
(Version 1.10)

REXLUTHOR  I was looking for a right click "create rar archive" option just like on windows or on the finder for zip archives. I finally found something that does this amazingly on a blog. Check this out:

http://stuffforlife.blogspot.com/2009/03/data-compression-in-mac-os-x-how-to.html

Hope this is useful.  
(Version 1.10)

NEONBLUE2  I only just downloaded RAR 3.8 yesterday to fix the speed issue...

At least the developer understands.  
(Version 1.10)

BILLARAW  I like it, it is really easy to use and gets the work done. However I couldn't find a way to open password protected rars which was confusing.   
(Version 1.0.9)

STORMCHILD  This is the best RAR utility I've found for OS X so far (other than unRarX, which is great too, but it only extracts archives; it doesn't create them).

One small thing that needs to be fixed is that the preset sizes for split archives are not quite correct. For example it lists 100 MB as 102,400,000 bytes, but 100 megabytes is actually 104,857,600 bytes (100 * 1024 * 1024).  
(Version 1.0.9)

APPLECRYPT MODS  i love this app, it's serving me well. But it has issues on really large folders. (mine is over 2.3GB). It just seems to stop working.. yelp!  
(Version 1.0.9)

PROMETH  Great, app. Basically what I was looking for.

My most important request is to add a "Ignore Special Finder Files" option.

Next, somehow I feel that the interface needs to be simplified further. Something more like Stuffit 12 and DropStuff. If you'd like, email me and I can come up with a [proffesional] design for you, as that's what I do for a living.

Thanks, and keep up the great work.  
(Version 1.0.9)

MACROXX  SimplyRAR is a great tool. Please make it OpenSource, so that development can continue...  
(Version 1.0.9)

ZANGIEF  The only major drawback to this is that you must quit and reopen it to remove any files from the list (that is, to make an entirely new archive). Other than that, I love it!  
(Version 1.0.9)

LIFE  OK I love this app but I'm having problems. When trying to use the 'Normal Level' of compression and splitting an achieve into 100MB volumes it quits.

And how do u specify user defined volume sizes? I cant figure it out or am I dim?  
(Version 1.0.9)

S P L A T !  dude...

this a great Mac-Utilitie!

but, i have some problems....

i have a folder with a lot of files on it, 34.5 Mb total size, and after "compress" using SimplyRAR, the .rar file is 65.7 Mb !! ...I try "normal" and "better" compressing options and results are the same.

I just run SimplyRAR, i drop this folder, i press "apple+s" to save the file in desktop and ok!

similar "behavior" with ".toast" files... recently i was making some back-ups of software and games.

many thanx in advance!  
(Version 1.0.9)

ABRAHAM IRAWAN  This apps is so wonderful, so easy to use especially when u dealing with RAR multi archives, both decode and encode

thank you  
(Version 1.0.9)

MACKEY007  Excellent program. Finally after months of waiting for something that would not only compress .rar, but the ability to split the archive into smaller segments. This is the first one for the Mac and a long time coming.

Thanks goes to the author for filling in a need where no one else has created a rar program to split files for the Mac.

Bravo!  
(Version 1.0.9)

LIFE  I love this programme, but I recently tried splitting an archive into 100MB parts. The file I was splitting was about 700MB so I wanted 7 RAR's. But when it finished it had done the whole thing as one big RAR file. It works when I split into 50MB size parts, but then I end up with 14 parts. Any Thoughts?  
(Version 1.0.8)

LOKHEED  Can't wait for PAR2 support. This brings together all the various programs I have on my system to unrar, deal with par2 files, etc. When it supports par2 recovery, I can finally ditch MacPAR.  
(Version 1.0.8)

APHOTIC_HEX  I can't seem to be able to set a password anywhere, when unarchinving RAR files.

The app. tells me when it is finished unarchiving that the password is incorrect.  
(Version 1.0.8)

S P L A T !  wow!

at last an really Mac-RAR application!

many claps to developers!

THANX  
(Version 1.0.8)

CORPSECORPS  _

It's nice to finally find an easy to use GUI for RAR on Mac which includes most important features.

I agree with ST00P!D M0NK3Y's criticisms below, and have an addtional gripe and a wish.

-- When i specify password protection on a segmented archive, it can be unRARed without a password. (if this is due to a RAR limitation, the option shouldn't be allowed)

-- It would be very helpful to be able to divide an archive into a set number of roughly equal pieces.  
(Version 1.0.8)

ST00P!D M0NK3Y  Wow I suck. Ignore the typos in my review below. I'm tired, lol.  
(Version 1.0.8)

ST00P!D M0NK3Y  This is the best RAR application for the Mac, in my opinion. It reminds me so much of WinRAR for Windows XP. Everything is great except for a few issues:

1) It needs to have the ability to cancel out of a RARing process. To stop it from making a RAR archive, I have to force quit the application.

2) You can only delete files off of the list my mouse-clicking and then delete. Neither of the delete buttons work. If you could let those keys delete the files off the list when you select them, it would be so much easier than having to mouse-click every single time.

3) The icon looks great, but it should the white needs to be cleaned up around the edges so it doesn't look like it was cut out of a piece of paper or something.

Other than that...awesome job! I use this application frequently now. I don't think there's any other RAR Mac application that comes close. Thanks!  
(Version 1.0.8)

CORPSECORPS  Used this once without incident. Now no matter where i try to create a RAR file, i get the error message:

--------------------------

File Path

Could not complete task

Exited with error code: 7

--------------------------  
(Version 1.0.8)

MBARSOOM  I would like to be able to add or remove files from an existing rar backup.  
(Version 1.0.8)

SERGE GRANT  SimplyRAR 1.0.8 does not split 278MB archive into parts (100MB option specified), it just created one file 278MB  
(Version 1.0.8)

DTPER  I like it. But still waiting for custom split volume sizes.  
(Version 1.0.8)

EGEN  Another good idea would be to add an option "Show RAR output" (like in MacPAR Deluxe and par binary).

This "log window" would show us what RAR binary is doing: from compressing and repairing to unraring.  
(Version 1.0.6)

JON MADDOX  Huh? Ok, since unrarX still isn't a universal binary, I thought i'd give this a try.

It fell flat on its face. If i open a rar file with it, it just opens the app, it doesn't unrar. I have to do it manually.

No mac users have been clamoring for an app to rar things with, and thats what this app does first and foremost. We just need to unrar, raring is second base.

Why that wasn't the feature done first, i have no clue... oh well. DELETE.  
(Version 1.0.6)

OZEAN  The download link does not work. In addition, there is no information about SimplyRAR available on the linked website.

Otherwise this seems to be a decent utility – I am definitely looking forward to having some kind of progress indicator or some information about expected remaining time.  
(Version 1.0.5)

EGEN  Great tool. The best rar solution for OSX so far. Easy to use, but needs PROGRESS BAR desperately :).  
(Version 1.0.4)

SERGE GRANT  It would be great if SimplyRAR could also do UNRAR! (i.e. extract files from RAR archives) .. by the way RAR part works OK (not sure using which CLI RAR utility as the one I downloaded is not in any known place like /usr/bin)  
(Version 1.0.3)

ROYTHETOXICBOY  Doensn't work for me. iMac G4 10.3.9  
(Version 1.0.2)

SERGE GRANT  Where exactly SimplyRAR expects CLI RAR utility to reside? Thanks!  
(Version 1.0.2)