Dotfuscator Alternatives

Dotfuscator is described as 'Post-build .NET hardening and instrumentation platform for protecting, measuring and managing .NET applications. Supports .NET framework, .NET standard and .NET Core. Commercial use requires licensed version available on subscription basis' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Dotfuscator for a variety of platforms, including Windows, .NET Framework, Mac, Linux and Windows Mobile apps. The best Dotfuscator alternative is Crypto Obfuscator For .Net. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try NETGuard.IO or Confuser. Other great apps like Dotfuscator are Babel Obfuscator, Aldaray Rummage, ArmDot and .Net Anti-Decompiler.

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  1. Crypto Obfuscator For .Net icon

    Crypto Obfuscator For .Net

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    Crypto Obfuscator For .Net provides advanced code protection, obfuscation and optimization for your .Net assemblies with its powerful techniques such as symbol renaming, method overload renaming, method call hiding, control flow obfuscation, resource and assembly encryption...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Mobile
    • Windows Phone
    • .NET Framework
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
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    • Crypto Obfuscator For .Net is the most popular Windows alternative to Dotfuscator.

    • Crypto Obfuscator For .Net is the most popular commercial alternative to Dotfuscator.

    • Crypto Obfuscator For .Net is Paid and ProprietaryDotfuscator is Free Personal and Proprietary
  2. NETGuard.IO icon

    NETGuard.IO

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    NETGuard.IO protects your application from tampering and cracking using state of the art techniques.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • NETGuard.IO is the most popular free alternative to Dotfuscator.

    • NETGuard.IO is Freemium and ProprietaryDotfuscator is Free Personal and Proprietary
  4. Babel Obfuscator icon

    Babel Obfuscator

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    Babel Obfuscator is a powerful protection tool for the Microsoft .NET Framework. Programs written in .NET languages, like C# and Visual Basic .NET, are normally easy to reverse engineer because they compile to MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language), a CPU-independent instruction...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • .NET Framework
     
  5. Aldaray Rummage icon

    Aldaray Rummage

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    Rummage obfuscates .NET programs to prevent decompilation, re-use, stealing and hacking. Rummage has a clean, easy-to-use user interface, and a reasonable price tag.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Confuser

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    Confuser is a protector/obfuscator for .NET, providing great security to .NET Applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • Confuser is the most popular Open Source alternative to Dotfuscator.

    • Confuser is Free and Open SourceDotfuscator is Free Personal and Proprietary
  7. ArmDot icon

    ArmDot

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    ArmDot protects .NET applications from decompilation and reverse engineering using control flow obfuscation and code virtualization. It also includes a flexible licensing system with key generators for C/C++, C#, and PHP.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • ArmDot is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Dotfuscator.

    • ArmDot is Paid and ProprietaryDotfuscator is Free Personal and Proprietary
  9. .Net Anti-Decompiler icon

    .Net Anti-Decompiler

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    This protect .net assemblies from reverse engineering. It provides an extra layer of protection.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Smartassembly icon

    Smartassembly

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    SmartAssembly offers an error reporting mechanism that provides you with a complete state of your program whenever it crashes. You get a full stack trace, along with the values of all variables when the crash happened.

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    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Obfuscar icon

    Obfuscar

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    Obfuscar is a basic obfuscator for .NET assemblies. It uses massive overloading to rename metadata in .NET assemblies (including the names of methods, properties, events, fields, types and namespaces) to a minimal set, distinguishable in most cases only by signature.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Skater Obfuscator

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    Skater is a .NET obfuscator and .NET code protector. It supports .NET Framework, .NET Standard and .NET Core.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     

  13. DotRefiner

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    DotRefiner is a free .NET obfuscator.

    Why obfuscate your code

    The goal of obfuscation is to make reverse engineering and/or cloning your application more complicated. Ideally, it should make cost of reverse engineering your application comparable to cost of developing similar a.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • .NET Framework
     
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