radare Alternatives

radare is described as 'Radare, the highly featured reverse engineering framework. NOTE: it is better to use the "radare 2", not the "radare"' and is an app in the development category. There are nine alternatives to radare for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best radare alternative is Ghidra, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like radare are IDA, OllyDbg, radare2 and Rizin.

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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Ghidra is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to radare.

    • Ghidra is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to radare.

    • Ghidra is Free and Open Sourceradare is also Free and Open Source
  2. IDA icon
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    IDA delivers robust disassembly and decompilation, supporting diverse processors and file formats. Its high-quality pseudocode mirrors original source code, aiding analysis of multi-platform software. It features dynamic debugging, metadata control with Lumina, and effective code deobfuscation.

    31 IDA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    23 OllyDbg alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. 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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    • Almost everyone thinks radare2 is a great radare alternative.

    • radare2 is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to radare.

    • radare2 is Free and Open Sourceradare is also Free and Open Source
  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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Mac
    • BSD
     
  6. Binary Ninja icon
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    A reverse engineering platform and GUI.

    33 Binary Ninja alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Binary Ninja is the most popular commercial alternative to radare.

    • Binary Ninja is Paid and Proprietaryradare is Free and Open Source
  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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • BSD
     
  8. REDasm icon
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    REDasm is a cross platform disassembler with a modern codebase useful from the hobbyist to the professional reverse engineer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
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    Disassemble, Patch, and Compile executable files online.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Binary Workbench is the most popular Web-based alternative to radare.

    • Binary Workbench is Free and Proprietaryradare is Free and Open Source
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