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Binary Ninja vs Hopper Disassembler: catalog facts
Binary Ninja	Hopper Disassembler
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Best for: Reverse engineers and malware analysts who want a scriptable decompiler	Best for: Reverse engineering macOS and iOS binaries on a Mac
Free + paid options A free edition and a free cloud version exist; full features need a paid license.	Paid Paid license, with a free trial available.
Web	macOS
Decompiles to readable C or the BNIL intermediate language Scriptable through C++, Python and Rust APIs Local and remote debugging built in Can be tried quickly through the cloud version	Assembly, CFG and pseudo-code views side by side Swift name demangling and Objective-C selector extraction LLDB and GDB debugging support MCP server for connecting language models
Commercial license needed beyond the free edition Real-time collaboration requires the Enterprise server	Mac only, requires macOS 12.4 or newer Paid after the trial
Downloadable app, Web application	Downloadable app
Not open source	Not open source
License: Proprietary	License: Proprietary
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Binary Ninja binary.ninja Catalog checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Hopper Disassembler hopperapp.com Catalog checked October 1, 2026

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