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Best for: Reverse engineers and malware analysts who want a scriptable decompiler

Best for: Debugging and patching Windows binaries during reverse engineering

A free edition and a free cloud version exist; full features need a paid license.

Free and open source under the GPLv3.

• 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

• IDA-like sidebar, jump arrows and token highlighting make it immediately readable
• Import reconstruction with Scylla and a built-in assembler for patching
• Yara pattern matching and a Snowman decompiler included
• A scriptable, debuggable automation language plus a growing plugin API

• Commercial license needed beyond the free edition
• Real-time collaboration requires the Enterprise server

• Windows only
• Antivirus software frequently flags it and the things it is used on
• PDB symbol support is basic compared with a commercial debugger
• The decompiler is far weaker than Ghidra's or IDA's

• 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 x64dbg

• github.com/x64dbg/x64dbg

Catalog checked September 21, 2026