ComfyEngine vs scanmem
ComfyEngine
github.comscanmem
github.comSide by side
| Figure | ComfyEngine | scanmem |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Game Memory Editors | 6.8 (#19) | 7.8 (#7) |
| Integrations | The README names Qt 6 Widgets and Capstone as build requirements and does not describe third-party service integrations. | The release notes announce a scanmem Slack chat for project collaboration. |
| Intended users | The project says it is for people who need to monitor, patch, and script a running process. | The project describes scanmem as a debugging utility and GameConqueror as a graphical game-cheating tool for Linux. |
| License | The repository lists the GNU Affero General Public License version 3.0. | The project lists GPLv3 for scanmem and LGPLv3 for libscanmem; the GameConqueror README lists GPLv3. |
| Purpose | ComfyEngine is a memory exploration toolkit for monitoring, patching, and scripting a running process. | scanmem is an interactive debugging utility for isolating and modifying a variable’s address in an executing process. |
| Scanning | Its scanner supports exact, unknown, changed, and range scans, optional alignment, unreadable-page skipping, and undo for scans. | The v0.17 release lists snapshot and update support for string and bytearray scans. |
| Scripting | The project lists Auto Assembler templates and automatically generated patch and restore scripts. | The v0.17 release adds command-line options to run commands before interactive mode and to exit on initial command errors. |
| Support | The maintainer welcomes issues and pull requests on the repository. | The README points users to man pages, the command-line help, and GameConqueror's interactive help for documentation. |
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In their own words
ComfyEngine
ComfyEngine has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
scanmem
scanmem is a free, open-source interactive debugging utility for finding and changing variable values in an executing process. It searches a process by PID and uses values observed over successive scans to narrow the possible memory addresses. The command-line tool can search for exact values, compare changed or unchanged values, find increases or decreases, take snapshots, and search strings when configured for string scans. It can monitor matches as their values change and set values for selected matches or all known matches. GameConqueror provides a graphical front end with a process finder, flexible search syntax, variable locking, and a memory browser and editor; users can choose search regions and types. The project separates the command-line frontend from libscanmem, which performs the scanning. The project describes scanmem as a Linux utility and documents an Android build using a standalone Android NDK toolchain. Linux interactive commands require libreadline and a mounted /proc filesystem, while the GUI has additional dependencies. The default scan data type is int, though the option command can change it. scanmem is GPLv3; libscanmem is LGPLv3.