radare2 Alternatives

radare2 is described as '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,' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to radare2 for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Haiku apps. The best radare2 alternative is ImHex, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like radare2 are Ghidra, x64dbg, IDA and GNU Project Debugger.

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  1. ImHex icon
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    ImHex is a free, featureful Hex Editor with many tools often only found in paid products. It includes a custom built scripting language for highlighting and decoding binary data, a disassembler, extensive file analysis tools and much much more

    28 ImHex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • ImHex is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to radare2.

    • ImHex is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to radare2.

    • ImHex is Free and Open Sourceradare2 is also Free and Open Source
    • ImHex is Lightweightradare2 is not according to our users
  2. 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
     
  3. 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
     
  4. 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
     
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    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. 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
     
  7. 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
     
    • Rizin is the most popular Android alternative to radare2.

    • Rizin is Free and Open Sourceradare2 is also Free and Open Source
    • Rizin is Lightweightradare2 is not according to our users
  8. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
  9. 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
     
  10. 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!

    22 Hopper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
    • Hopper is the most popular commercial alternative to radare2.

    • Hopper is Paid and Proprietaryradare2 is Free and Open Source
  11. 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 (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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