Bit Slicer vs PINCE

Bit Slicer is a free, open-source game trainer for macOS that searches for and changes values such as scores, lives and ammunition. Its scanner handles integers, floating-point values, strings, byte arrays and pointers, and can narrow search results. Users can inspect and edit live memory in a hex-editor-style window, dump memory to disk and alter memory-protection attributes. Debugging tools include instruction-access watches, live disassembly, breakpoints, backtraces, register manipulation and stepping, as well as byte or assembled-instruction changes. The app can inject assembly code into a running process, and scripts can automate virtual-memory and debugger methods. Saved Slice documents can be shared. The project says it can run as a normal user rather than root. Version 1.9.2 is listed as the latest release. The current release requires macOS 11.5 or newer, although the freeware plan lists macOS 10.8 or later. Support is directed to the wiki and Discord, and is not available 24/7.

PINCE is a Linux GDB front end and reverse engineering tool focused on games, though its maker says it can also serve other reverse engineering work. It is free at free and licensed under GPLv3+. Its memory tools support scanning memory and pointers, inspecting and changing variables, and locking variables. Debugging features include stepping, breakpoints, watchpoints, tracking, tracing, stack traces, and signal handling. The built-in speedhack supports Linux native and WINE/Proton processes without LD_PRELOAD or other libraries. Runtime injection supports native.so files and WINE/Proton DLL files, and the Mono/IL2CPP dissector can browse classes, fields, and methods in those process types. Users can save address tables, bookmarks, notes, and structures in.pct session files. PINCE includes a scripting engine and reusable Python library. The project directs users to its latest AppImage release, stated to run on distributions as new as or newer than Ubuntu 22.04; older distributions are not officially supported. Official local development support includes Kubuntu 22.04+ and Arch Linux, with Debian 12+, Fedora 35+, and OpenSUSE partially supported.