Binary Ninja Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Binary Ninja for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Ghidra, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Binary Ninja and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Binary Ninja are IDA, GNU Project Debugger, Rizin and Cutter.

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  1. Ghidra icon
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    Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework created and maintained by the National Security Agency Research Directorate. This framework includes a suite of full-featured, high-end software analysis tools that enable users to analyze compiled code on a variety of...

    21 Ghidra alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Ghidra is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Binary Ninja.

    • Ghidra is the most popular Open Source alternative to Binary Ninja.

    • Ghidra is Free and Open SourceBinary Ninja is Paid and Proprietary
  2. IDA icon
     59 likes

    IDA delivers robust disassembly and decompilation, supporting diverse processors and file formats. Its high-quality pseudocode mirrors original source code, aiding analysis of multi-platform software. It features dynamic debugging, metadata control with Lumina, and effective code deobfuscation.

    31 IDA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. GNU Project Debugger, or gdb, is a command-line, source-level debugger for programs that were written in C, C++, D, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Pascal, assembly, Modula-2, or Ada and compiled for any of a number of different target architectures including x86, x86-64, IA-64...

    19 GNU Project Debugger alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • Haiku
     
  4. Rizin icon
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    Rizin is a feature rich reverse engineering framework in development, focusing on stability and high code quality, a welcoming and curious community culture and implementation of cutting edge binary analysis research.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Mac
    • BSD
     
    • Rizin is the most popular Android alternative to Binary Ninja.

    • Rizin is Free and Open SourceBinary Ninja is Paid and Proprietary
    • Rizin is LightweightBinary Ninja is not according to our users
  5. Cutter icon
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    Cutter goal is to be an advanced FREE and open-source reverse-engineering platform while keeping the user experience at mind. Cutter is created by reverse engineers for reverse engineers.

    22 Cutter alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
  6. radare icon
     19 likes

    Radare, the highly featured reverse engineering framework. NOTE: it is better to use the "radare 2", not the "radare".

    Features

    Multi-architecture and multi-platform GNU/Linux, Android, *BSD, OSX, iPhoneOS, Windows{32,64} and Solaris i808.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. radare2 icon
     20 likes

    Radare project started as a forensics tool, a scriptable commandline hexadecimal editor able to open disk files, but later support for analyzing binaries, disassembling code, debugging programs, attaching to remote gdb servers, ...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • C (programming language)
    • Git
    • Haiku
    • Docker
     
    • radare2 is the most popular iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Binary Ninja.

    • radare2 is Free and Open SourceBinary Ninja is Paid and Proprietary
  8. 010 Editor icon
     29 likes

    010 Editor is a professional text/hex editor designed to edit any file, drive, or process on your machine. Using Binary Templates technology, 010 Editor allows a binary file to be parsed into a data structure that can be understood.

    48 010 Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • 010 Editor is the most popular commercial alternative to Binary Ninja.

    • 010 Editor is Paid and ProprietaryBinary Ninja is also Paid and Proprietary
  9. Okteta icon
     16 likes

    Okteta is a simple editor for the raw data of files. This type of program is also called hex editor or binary editor. The data is displayed in the traditional view with two columns: one with the numeric values and one with the assigned characters.

    40 Okteta alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
     
  10. Malcat icon
     8 likes

    Malcat is a feature-rich hexadecimal editor / disassembler / decompiler for reverse engineers and malware analysts. It has support for many file formats and CPUs, can scan for signatures, decrypt/decompress data, diff files and run python scripts.

    29 Malcat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Hopper icon
     17 likes

    Hopper is a reverse engineering tool for OS X and Linux, that lets you disassemble, and decompile your 32/64bits Intel Mac, Linux, Windows and iOS executables!

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  12. Spray icon
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    Spray is a small debugger for C code that comes with minimal mental overhead. All functionality aims to be simple and easy to grasp.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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