IDA AlternativesTop Decompilers and other similar apps like IDA

IDA is described as 'A disassembler and decompiler with robust support for various processors and file formats, offering pseudocode similar to original source code' and is a popular Decompiler in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to IDA for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Haiku apps. The best IDA alternative is Ghidra, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like IDA are x64dbg, radare2, Malcat and GNU Project Debugger.

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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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  2. x64dbg icon
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    x64dbg is a 64-bit assembler-level debugger for Windows. The corresponding 32-bit debugger is called x32dbg.

    18 x64dbg alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. radare2 icon
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    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
     
  4. Malcat icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  5. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • Haiku
     
  6. radare icon
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    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. Binary Ninja icon
     25 likes

    A reverse engineering platform and GUI.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. OllyDbg icon
     57 likes

    OllyDbg is a 32-bit assembler level analysing debugger. Emphasis on binary code analysis makes it particularly useful in cases where source is unavailable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Rizin icon
     5 likes

    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.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Mac
    • BSD
     
  10. 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!

    22 Hopper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  11. Cutter icon
     12 likes

    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
     
  12. WinDbg icon
     11 likes

    WinDbg is a multipurposed debugger for Microsoft Windows, distributed on the web by Microsoft as part of the Debugging Tools for Windows. It can be used to debug user mode applications, drivers, and the operating system itself in kernel mode.

    16 WinDbg alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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