CFF Explorer AlternativesResource Editors and other similar apps like CFF Explorer

CFF Explorer is described as 'The CFF Explorer was designed to make PE editing as easy as possible, but without losing sight on the portable executable's internal structure' and is a Resource Editor in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to CFF Explorer for Windows, Linux, PortableApps.com and Mac. The best CFF Explorer alternative is Resource Hacker, which is free. Other great apps like CFF Explorer are PE-bear, Free Resource Extractor, PE Explorer and Restorator.

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  1. Resource Hacker icon
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    Resource Hacker™ is a resource editor for 32bit and 64bit Windows® applications.

    21 Resource Hacker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Resource Hacker is the most popular Windows alternative to CFF Explorer.

    • Resource Hacker is the most popular free alternative to CFF Explorer.

    • Resource Hacker is Free and ProprietaryCFF Explorer is also Free and Proprietary
  2. PE-bear icon
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    Portable Executable reversing tool with a friendly GUI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about PE-bear as an Alternative to CFF Explorer
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    Still updated and open source, which CFF Explorer is not.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • PE-bear is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to CFF Explorer.

    • PE-bear is the most popular Open Source alternative to CFF Explorer.

    • PE-bear is Free and Open SourceCFF Explorer is Free and Proprietary
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    Free Resource Extractor is a free and handy utility to scan all DLL, EXE and OCX files and extract built-in resources like icons, bitmaps, cursors, sounds, AVI videos, HTML files, metafiles, etc. Free Resource Extractor can even extract useful resources from system files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning
    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. PE Explorer icon
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    PE Explorer is the most feature-packed program for inspecting the inner workings of your own software, and more importantly, third party Windows applications and libraries for which you do not have source code.

    49 PE Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • PE Explorer is the most popular commercial alternative to CFF Explorer.

    • PE Explorer is Paid and ProprietaryCFF Explorer is Free and Proprietary
  5. Restorator icon
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    Restorator is an award-winning utility to edit windows resources in applications and their components, e.g. files with .exe, .dll, .res, .rc, .dcr, extension (see PE files and RES files).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. ResEdit icon
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    ResEdit is a free resource editor for Windows programs. You can use it if you want to use dialogs, icons, version information or other types of resources. Output files can be compiled by any Windows compiler that includes a resource compiler, like MinGW and Microsoft Visual C++.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. EXE Explorer icon
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    It reads and displays executable file properties and structure. It is compatible with PE32 (Portable Executable), PE32+ (64bit), NE (Windows 3.x New Executable) and VxD (Windows 9x Virtual Device Driver) file types. .NET executables are supported too.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Resource Tuner icon
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    Resource Tuner lets you view, extract, replace, edit, and delete the embedded resources of executable files: icons, strings, images, sounds, dialogs, menus - all that make up the visual part of your Windows programs.

    12 Resource Tuner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    XN Resource Editor is a free, powerful, fully featured resource editor and PE module explorer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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    Comments about XN Resource Editor as an Alternative to CFF Explorer
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    A resources are only 50% of the portable executable.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • XN Resource Editor is Free and Open SourceCFF Explorer is Free and Proprietary
  10. Relyze icon
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    Relyze is an interactive software reverse engineering and analysis platform with the following main features:

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. PE Tools icon
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    This is a fully-functional utility for working with PE/PE +(64bit) files. Including: Editor PE of files, Task Viewer, Win32 PE files optimizer, detector of compiler/packer and many other things.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Resource Hunter is a perfect resource explorer/hacker/grabber can extract pe resource from exe, dll ,extract icon and image like gif, png, bitmap.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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