Crinkler Alternatives

    Crinkler is described as 'executable file compressor (or rather, a compressing linker) for Windows specifically targeted towards executables with a size of just a few kilobytes. As of 2020, it is the most widely used tool for compressing 1k/4k/8k intros' and is a File Compressor in the File Management category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Crinkler for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Online / Web-based and Android. The best alternative is FileOptimizer, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Crinkler are UPX (Free, Open Source), ExEinfo PE (Free), Appetize.io (Freemium) and Themida (Paid).

    This page was last updated Sep 14, 2021
    1. FileOptimizer is a lossless file size optimizer supporting AIR, APK, APNG APPX, BMP, CBZ, DOCX, DLL, EPUB, EXE, GIF, GZ, ICO, JAR, JPEG, MNG, MP3, MPP, PNG, PPTX, ODT, OGG, OGV, PDF, PUB, SCR, SWF, TIF, VSD, WEBP, XAP, XLSX, and ZIP file formats among others.
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    2. UPX

      • Free • Open Source
      • Mac
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      UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables) achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks for most of the formats supported, because of in-place decompression.
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    4. ExEinfo PE

      • Free • Proprietary
      • Windows
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        Packer, compressor detector / unpack info / internal exe tools. Internal Tools and Ripper Menu : Borland Delphi ( 2.0 - 7.0 ) Microsoft Visual C++ ver. 5,6,7,8.0 UPX exe/ dll 0.89.6 - 1.02 / 1.05 -3.03 -> Markus & Laszlo Aspack v2.
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      • Appetize.io

        • Freemium • Proprietary
        • Mac
        • Windows
        • Linux
        • Online
        • Android
        • iPhone
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        Stream iOS Simulators & Android Emulators in the Browser.
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      • Themida

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          Advanced Windows software protection system, developed for software developers who wish to protect their applications against advanced reverse engineering and software cracking.
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        • VMProtect Ultimate - All-In-One Solution For Software Licensing And Protection. VMProtect protects code by executing it on a virtual machine with non-standard architecture that makes it extremely difficult to analyze and crack the software.
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        • FUPX

          • Free • Proprietary
          • Windows
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          Graphical interface for the UPX packer which offers easy access to all documented and undocumented UPX parameters without the need for command line usage.
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        • Alienyze

          • Windows
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            Alienyze is a software packer and protection solution for native Windows 32-bit executable files.
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          • ASPack

            • Windows
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              ASPack makes Windows programs and libraries smaller up to 70% (the compression ratio is higher than the ZIP standard by 10-20%), and decrease load times across networks, and download times from the internet.
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            • kkrunchy

              • Free • Proprietary
              • Windows
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                kkrunchy is a small exe packer primarily meant for 64k intros.
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