Just a nag screen. And 40 billion clicks of “Close.” Rarlab’s official site: www.rarlab.com WinRAR: Still compressing after all these years.
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. For a time, ZIP was the default. Windows even baked ZIP support into the OS with XP. That should have killed WinRAR. It didn’t. rarlab
Roshal does something radical: he designs a new compression algorithm from scratch. Not a tweak. Not a fork. A true original. He calls it — Roshal ARchive . Just a nag screen