Resource Hacker AlternativesResource Editors and other similar apps like Resource Hacker

Resource Hacker is described as 'Resource editor for 32bit and 64bit Windows® applications' and is a very popular Resource Editor in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Resource Hacker for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, Android Tablet and PortableApps.com apps. The best Resource Hacker alternative is Universal Extractor 2, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Resource Hacker are Restorator, PE Explorer, Resource Tuner and PE-bear.

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    Universal Extractor 2 is an unofficial updated and extended version of the original UniExtract by Jared Breland. It brings several hundred changes including community-wanted ones such as a batch mode, auto-updater and scan-only-functionality.

    24 Universal Extractor 2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
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    • Most users think Universal Extractor 2 is a great Resource Hacker alternative.

    • Universal Extractor 2 is the most popular Windows alternative to Resource Hacker.

    • Universal Extractor 2 is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Resource Hacker.

    • Universal Extractor 2 is Free and Open SourceResource Hacker is Free and Proprietary
  2. Restorator icon
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    Restorator is an award-winning utility to edit windows resources in applications and their components, e.g. files with .exe, .dll, .res, .rc, .dcr, extension (see PE files and RES files).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
    • Restorator is the most popular commercial alternative to Resource Hacker.

    • Restorator is Paid and ProprietaryResource Hacker is Free and Proprietary
  3. PE Explorer icon
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    PE Explorer is the most feature-packed program for inspecting the inner workings of your own software, and more importantly, third party Windows applications and libraries for which you do not have source code.

    49 PE Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Resource Tuner icon
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    Resource Tuner lets you view, extract, replace, edit, and delete the embedded resources of executable files: icons, strings, images, sounds, dialogs, menus - all that make up the visual part of your Windows programs.

    12 Resource Tuner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  5. PE-bear icon
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    Portable Executable reversing tool with a friendly GUI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • PE-bear is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Resource Hacker.

    • PE-bear is Free and Open SourceResource Hacker is Free and Proprietary
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    XN Resource Editor is a free, powerful, fully featured resource editor and PE module explorer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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    Resource Hacker FX is an improved Resource Hacker: it is a patcher that needs to be used on the original Resource Hacker v3.6.0.92.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Resource Hacker
     
  8. ResEdit icon
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    ResEdit is a free resource editor for Windows programs. You can use it if you want to use dialogs, icons, version information or other types of resources. Output files can be compiled by any Windows compiler that includes a resource compiler, like MinGW and Microsoft Visual C++.

    13 ResEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
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    The primary focus of the resource editor is RES files with a heavy bias toward the resource types commonly used by Delphi developers, but all common resource file formats and resource types are supported.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. GARbro icon
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    A resource browser, archiver, and extractor specializing in game data archives. It handles uncommon file formats not supported by standard zip and rar utilities. A full list of supported formats can be found at https://morkt.github.io/GARbro/supported.html.

    26 GARbro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  11. RisohEditor icon
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    "RisohEditor" is a free resource editor for Win32 development. RisohEditor realized the ideal of resource editor.

    12 RisohEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
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    open source, support multi-language UI

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    • RisohEditor is Free and Open SourceResource Hacker is Free and Proprietary
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    Free Resource Extractor is a free and handy utility to scan all DLL, EXE and OCX files and extract built-in resources like icons, bitmaps, cursors, sounds, AVI videos, HTML files, metafiles, etc. Free Resource Extractor can even extract useful resources from system files.

    16 Free Resource Extractor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Warning
    • Bundleware

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    • Windows
     
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