Free Resource Hacker AlternativesResource Editors and other similar apps like Resource Hacker

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.

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  1. 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.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  2. 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
     
  3. PE-bear icon
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    Portable Executable reversing tool with a friendly GUI.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. 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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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  5. 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
     
  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
     
  7. 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
  8. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Warning
    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Innounp icon
     5 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. InnoExtractor icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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