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.




The best free alternative to Resource Hacker is Universal Extractor 2, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Resource Hacker and 16 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Resource Hacker are XN Resource Editor, Resource Hacker FX, PE-bear and ResEdit.
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.




XN Resource Editor is a free, powerful, fully featured resource editor and PE module explorer.

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.





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++.




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.


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.

"RisohEditor" is a free resource editor for Win32 development. RisohEditor realized the ideal of resource editor.



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.

innounp, the Inno Setup Unpacker.
It recovers portions of the installation script (.iss file), including the registry changes and the compiled Innerfuse/RemObjects Pascal Script, if available.
InnoExtractor is a powerful application that helps you to unpack Inno Setup installers. With InnoExtractor you can explore the internal structure and content of the installer and you can to extract them to a local folder or a portable devices...

View and extract resources from EXE, DLL, OCX, CPL or any other Windows 32 & 64 Bit PE file. The embedded resources are shown in a tree sorted by language and type. Pictures like BMP, PNG, JPG, AVI movies, icons, cursors, dialogs, string tables and version info are shown in...



open source, support multi-language UI