Alternatives to Frida
Dynamic instrumentation toolkit for inspecting and modifying running applications. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Frida
Dynamic instrumentation toolkit for inspecting and modifying running applications.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Frida.
objection
Inspect mobile application behavior at runtime.
objection is a GPL-3.0 runtime mobile exploration toolkit built on Frida, giving ready-made commands for inspecting app state instead of writing your own JavaScript hooks.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Frida as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
MobSF
Analyze mobile application packages in a security-testing workspace.
Frida is a dynamic instrumentation toolkit for hooking live mobile processes rather than a static and dynamic analysis workspace.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
radare2
Command-line reverse engineering framework and binary analysis toolkit.
Ghidra
The NSA's reverse engineering framework, with a decompiler that turns machine code back into readable C.
x64dbg
An open-source Windows debugger for reverse engineering, with an IDA-like interface, a built-in assembler and a decompiler.
mitmproxy
An intercepting proxy that decrypts, displays and lets you modify HTTP and HTTPS traffic, with a console, a web interface and a scriptable command-line version.
Exodus Privacy
An Android app and web service that reports the trackers and permissions found inside Android apps.
