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RetDec vs radare2: catalog facts
RetDec	radare2
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Best for: Reverse engineers and malware analysts who want a free decompiler	Best for: Command-line reverse engineering framework and binary analysis toolkit
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external services are separate.
Windows, Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Command line
Free decompiler under a permissive licence Built on LLVM and retargetable across architectures Dockerfile provided for reproducible builds	It disassembles, emulates, debugs and patches binaries across a very wide set of architectures, and scripts through r2pipe from most languages.
Project is in limited maintenance mode Command-line tool with no graphical interface Intended for authorized analysis of software you are allowed to examine	The command syntax is famously steep, and individual plugins carry different licences.
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: LGPL-3.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Offline features available	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for RetDec retdec.com github.com/avast/retdec Catalog checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for radare2 github.com/radareorg/radare2 Catalog checked September 22, 2026

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