Universal Extractor 2 AlternativesResource Editors and other similar apps like Universal Extractor 2

Universal Extractor 2 is described as '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' and is a Resource Editor in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Universal Extractor 2 for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Android Tablet apps. The best Universal Extractor 2 alternative is Resource Hacker, which is free. Other great apps like Universal Extractor 2 are GARbro, PE-bear, Free Resource Extractor and PE Explorer.

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  1. Resource Hacker icon
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    Resource Hacker™ is a resource editor for 32bit and 64bit Windows® applications.

    21 Resource Hacker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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

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

    • Resource Hacker is Free and ProprietaryUniversal Extractor 2 is Free and Open Source
  2. 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

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    • Windows
     
    • GARbro is the most popular Open Source alternative to Universal Extractor 2.

    • GARbro is Free and Open SourceUniversal Extractor 2 is also Free and Open Source
  3. PE-bear icon
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    Portable Executable reversing tool with a friendly GUI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • PE-bear is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Universal Extractor 2.

    • PE-bear is Free and Open SourceUniversal Extractor 2 is also Free and Open Source
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning
    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • PE Explorer is the most popular commercial alternative to Universal Extractor 2.

    • PE Explorer is Paid and ProprietaryUniversal Extractor 2 is Free and Open Source
  6. 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).

    12 Restorator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Innounp icon
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    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
     
  8. innoextract icon
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    Inno Setup is a tool to create installers for Microsoft Windows applications. innoextract allows to extract such installers under non-windows systems without running the actual installer using Wine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. ExEinfo PE icon
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    Packer, compressor detector / unpack info / internal exe tools.

    Internal Tools and Ripper Menu :

    Borland Delphi ( 2.0 - 7.0 ) Microsoft Visual C++ ver. 5,6,7,8.0 UPX exe/ dll 0.89.6 - 1.02 / 1.05 -3.03 -> Markus & Laszlo Aspack v2.12 -> Alexey Solodovnikov EXECrypto.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. 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++.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. 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
     
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