IDA Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to IDA for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is Ghidra, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to IDA and 13 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to IDA are radare2, GNU Project Debugger, Binary Ninja and radare.

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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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    Comments about Ghidra as an Alternative to IDA
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    The tool has a graphical interface. It is open source software, and I never thought that such a large organization would make such a major contribution to the development of free software and other similar programs for the community.

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    • Almost everyone thinks Ghidra is a great IDA alternative.

    • Ghidra is Free and Open SourceIDA is Free Personal and Proprietary
  2. 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
     
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  3. 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...

    19 GNU Project Debugger alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • Haiku
     
  4. 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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  5. Rizin icon
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    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.

    16 Rizin alternatives

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    • Android
    • Mac
    • BSD
     
  6. Hopper icon
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    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!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  7. Cutter icon
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    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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    • Haiku
     
  8. 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
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    • Linux
    • Python
    • BSD
     
  9. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  10. 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
     
  11. Malimite icon
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    Malimite is an iOS and macOS decompiler designed to help researchers analyze and decode IPA files and Application Bundles.

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    • Java
     
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