IDA Alternatives

Apps similar to IDA include Ghidra, which is free and open source. Other options are x64dbg, Radare2, radare and OllyDbg. You're spoiled for choice with Decompilers like IDA: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, the web and Android.

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  1. REDasm icon
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    REDasm is a free and open source disassembler for Windows and Linux, built for both hobbyists and professional reverse engineers.

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    • Windows
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  2. 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.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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  3. dnSpyEx icon
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    dnSpyEx is an unofficial continuation of the dnSpy project which is a debugger and .NET assembly editor. You can use it to edit and debug assemblies even if you don't have any source code available. Main features:

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    • Windows
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  4. dnSpy icon
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    dnSpy is a debugger and .NET assembly editor. You can use it to edit and debug assemblies even if you don't have any source code available.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  5. JEB is a disassembler and decompiler software for Android applications and native machine code. It decompiles Dalvik bytecode to Java source code, and x86, ARM, MIPS, RISC-V, WebAssembly, Ethereum contracts, S7 PLC blocks to pseudo C source code.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Hiew icon
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    Hiew (short for Hackers view) is a popular console hex editor for DOS and Windows written by Eugene Suslikov (sen). Amongst its feature set is its ability to view files in text, hex and disassembly mode.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  7. angr icon
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    angr is an open-source binary analysis platform for Python. It combines both static and dynamic symbolic ("concolic") analysis, providing tools to solve a variety of tasks.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • BSD
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  8. Relyze icon
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    Relyze is an interactive software reverse engineering and analysis platform with the following main features:

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  9. Immunity Debugger is a powerful new way to write exploits, analyze malware, and reverse engineer binary files. It builds on a solid user interface with function graphing, the industrys first heap analysis tool built specifically for heap creation, and a large and well supported...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  10. A general, open source, retargetable decompiler of machine code programs.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  11. Spray icon
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    Spray is a small debugger for C code that comes with minimal mental overhead. All functionality aims to be simple and easy to grasp.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  12. Panopticon is a cross platform disassembler for reverse engineering written in Rust. It has functions for disassembling, analysing decompiling and patching binaries for various platforms and instruction sets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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