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Frida vs Pharos

Frida

frida.re

Pharos

github.com

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FigureFridaPharos
Price fromFree—
Free planYes—
Free trial——
Open sourceYes—
WindowsYes—
macOSYes—
LinuxYesYes
iOSYes—
AndroidYes—
APIYes—
Plans published10
Spec score · Reverse Engineering Tools8.7 (#4)5.4 (#67)

Plans

Frida

  • Free softwareFree

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Pharos

No plans published.

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In their own words

Frida

Frida is a dynamic instrumentation toolkit for developers, reverse-engineers, and security researchers. It lets users place scripts in running processes to hook functions, inspect APIs, and trace application code without source code. Documented uses include API tracing, diagnostics, encrypted-protocol analysis, and black-box testing.

Frida supports injected, embedded, and preloaded instrumentation. When injection is unavailable, Frida Gadget can be embedded in a program, including on jailed iOS and Android systems. Supported targets include Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, Android, FreeBSD, and QNX. Language bindings include Node.js, Python, Swift, .NET, Qt/Qml, and Go, alongside a C API. The CLI tools require Python and run on Windows, macOS, or GNU/Linux; the documented installation command is `pip install frida-tools`.

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Pharos

Pharos has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.

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