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Extract ZIP archives in your browser and save only the files you need.

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Private by design — ZIP extraction runs right inside your browser, so your files are never uploaded anywhere. Safe even for work documents and personal photos.How this differs from upload-based sites — most online archive tools upload your archive to a server, unpack it there, and promise to delete it after a while. If it is password-protected you have to hand over the password too, and until deletion your files are sitting on someone else's server. zipmoa has no upload step at all. The more sensitive the archive — bundled contracts, scanned IDs, a company backup — the more that difference matters.

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Open a ZIP where double-clicking isn’t an option, and keep only the files you need

Windows and macOS open ZIP files on their own, but on a locked-down work PC or a phone, pulling a single document out of an archive is surprisingly awkward. This page unpacks the ZIP inside your browser, lists every file with its folder path and size, and lets you save only the ones you want. Neither the archive nor its password is sent to a server.

A closer look

When you drop a ZIP, an extraction engine bundled with the page unpacks it in a separate background thread of your browser. The status line moves through “Opening archive…”, “Reading file list…” and “Extracting…”, and when it finishes you see one row per file, with the folder path in front of the name and the size beside it. At that point everything is unpacked in browser memory, but nothing lands on your disk until you press Save on a row. That is why you can take two files out of an archive that holds hundreds without cluttering your Downloads folder.

Password-protected ZIPs are detected automatically and a password field appears. The password is handed to the extraction engine and nothing else; the “0 B uploaded” line under the results is a live measurement of what this page has actually sent. One difference is worth knowing. A row’s Save button downloads the file under its bare name, without the folder path, while Save all as ZIP builds a fresh archive named “original-extracted.zip” that keeps the folder structure. That new ZIP has no password, so if the original was encrypted, store the copy with the same care.

How to use it

Drop the ZIP onto the area above or press Choose file. If you drop several at once only the first one opens, so add them one at a time.
If the archive is encrypted, a password field appears. Type the password and press Extract with password, or just hit Enter.
When “Done! N file(s) extracted” appears, check the paths and sizes and press Save next to each file you need.
If there are too many files to save one by one, press Save all as ZIP to get a single archive with the folders intact.

When it helps

A work PC with no install rightsPull out the one quote a supplier sent inside a ZIP without asking IT to install an archiver.

Attachments on your phoneOpen a ZIP from email or a chat app without installing anything and save just the photos or documents you need.

A quick look before you downloadCheck the names and sizes in an archive of uncertain origin for executables or anything unexpected, and simply never download the parts you don’t want.

Cleaning up ZIPs made on a MacSkip the __MACOSX folder and the small files starting with ._ that macOS adds to its archives; they only hold Mac metadata.

Common snags

Some file names come out garbled.Older archivers, especially on Windows systems set to a non-English language, store names in a legacy code page instead of UTF-8, and this page can’t translate those names back. The contents still extract correctly, so save the files and rename them. For a large batch, the Bulk Rename tool on this site can give them new names in one go.

A split archive (.z01, .zip.001) won’t open.The page reads a single file per run, so it can’t join the pieces of a split ZIP, and a single piece on its own won’t extract correctly. The reliable fix is to ask the sender for one unsplit ZIP. A download that stopped halfway can also end in “Could not extract this archive”, so compare the file size with the original.

The password is right, but it says “The password looks missing or incorrect.”Check capital letters, the keyboard language and stray spaces at either end. The field hides what you type, so pasting the password from a note avoids typos. You can retry as many times as you like, and nothing you type is stored anywhere.

A big ZIP freezes the tab or makes it reload.The page unpacks every file into browser memory before showing the list. If the unpacked total is larger than the memory your device can spare, things slow down or the tab reloads, and Save all as ZIP makes one more copy on top of that. Open multi-gigabyte archives on a computer with plenty of RAM and close other tabs first.

Tip If you only need one or two files, use the row’s Save button instead of Save all as ZIP; it skips building a copy, so it’s faster and uses less memory.

Unzip Online FAQ

Why use this instead of double-clicking?

It is handy on locked-down work computers, phones and tablets, or when you want to peek inside a ZIP and pull out just a few files instead of unpacking everything.

Are password-protected ZIPs supported?

Yes. A password field appears when the ZIP is encrypted. Your password never leaves the browser.

Some file names look garbled.

ZIPs created by very old tools may store names in a non-UTF-8 encoding, which can display incorrectly. The file contents still extract fine — save and rename them.

Is it safe?

Extraction happens entirely inside your browser, so files never travel over the network.