hashcat Alternatives

hashcat is described as 'The World's Fastest CPU/GPU powered password cracker' and is an app in the security & privacy category. There are more than 10 alternatives to hashcat for Windows, Linux, Mac and Haiku. The best hashcat alternative is John the Ripper, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like hashcat are hashcat-gui, L0phtCrack, oclHashcat-plus and BarsWF.

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  1. John the Ripper icon

    John the Ripper

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    John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
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    • John the Ripper is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to hashcat.

    • John the Ripper is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to hashcat.

    • John the Ripper is Free and Open Sourcehashcat is also Free and Open Source
  2. hashcat-gui icon

    hashcat-gui

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    Hashcat GUI overlay for Windows and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    This is a gui overlay for a password cracker, not a password cracker.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think hashcat-gui is a great hashcat alternative.

    • hashcat-gui is Free and Proprietaryhashcat is Free and Open Source
  3. L0phtCrack icon

    L0phtCrack

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    L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application (now called L0phtCrack 7) originally produced by Mudge from L0pht Heavy Industries. It is used to test password strength and sometimes to recover lost Microsoft Windows passwords, by using dictionary, brute-force, hybrid...

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. oclHashcat-plus icon

    oclHashcat-plus

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    Worlds fastest md5crypt, phpass, mscash2 and WPA / WPA2 cracker & Worlds first and only GPGPU based rule engine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     

  5. BarsWF

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    World Fastest MD5 cracker BarsWF with AMD and NVIDIA support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     

  6. IGHASHGPU

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    Program to recover/crack SHA1, MD5 & MD4 hashes. Fastest SHA1/MD5 hash cracker on ATI and NVIDIA GPUs. World first multihash cracker for ATI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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  8. LaZagne

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    LaZagne is an open source application used to retrieve passwords stored on a local computer. Each software stores its passwords using different techniques (plaintext, APIs, custom algorithms, databases, etc.).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • LaZagne is the most popular Mac alternative to hashcat.

    • LaZagne is Free and Open Sourcehashcat is also Free and Open Source
  9. oclHashcat-lite icon

    oclHashcat-lite

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    Worlds fastest NTLM, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, descrypt and SL3 cracker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     

  10. MDCrack

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    MDCrack is a free featureful password cracker designed to bruteforce several commonly used hash algorithms at a very aggressive speed rate.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     

  11. Cryptohaze

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    A CUDA & OpenCL accelerated rainbow table implementation from the ground up, and a CUDA hash brute forcing tool with support for many hash types including MD5, SHA1, LM, NTLM, and lots more!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. GoCrack icon

    GoCrack

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    GoCrack provides APIs to manage password cracking tasks across supported cracking engines.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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