When comparing The Unarchiver vs NoSleep, the Slant community recommends The Unarchiver for most people. In the question“What are the best Mac OSX apps for someone that's new to Apple?” The Unarchiver is ranked 1st while NoSleep is ranked 26th. The most important reason people chose The Unarchiver is:
The app can be set up to work just as the built-in Archive Utility OSX comes with so that archives are extracted by a simple double-click.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Excellent Finder integration
The app can be set up to work just as the built-in Archive Utility OSX comes with so that archives are extracted by a simple double-click.
Pro Lets you close the lid of a laptop
The laptop will not sleep even if you close the lid, but the display will sleep. If your display cannot sleep, simply lower the brightness until it goes dark & turns off.
Cons
Con Lacks RAR5 support
RAR 5.0 format introduced in 2013 uses a new compression algorithm that is not compatible with previous versions of the format. As such, all software needs to be updated to include support for RAR 5.0 and The Unarchiver has not yet added it.
Con Discontinued development
Latest release was November 15th, 2014.