Frida vs rev.ng
Frida
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rev.ng
rev.ngSide by side
| Figure | Frida | rev.ng |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Reverse Engineering Tools | 8.7 (#4) | 8.3 (#9) |
| Collaboration | Luma syncs sessions, REPL transcripts, instruments, captures, notebook entries, and presence in real time, and uses GitHub authentication. | The product page says collaborators can work on the same project by sharing a URL; public projects include two collaborators per project. |
| Company legal name | Crunchbase lists the supporting company’s legal name as NowSecure, Inc., formerly known as viaForensics. | The website footer identifies the maker as rev.ng Labs S.r.l. |
| Documentation depth | The documentation includes tutorials, troubleshooting, building, footprint guidance, platform guides, tool references and JavaScript, C, Gum, Core, Swift and Go API sections. | The manual covers installation, MetaAddress, the YAML model, artifacts, analyses, tutorials and scripting. |
| Support | Frida’s contact page lists a Telegram group and the #frida IRC channel for contacting the community. | The site points users to Discourse for questions, feedback, and problem reports, and also offers a Discord community and email contact. |
| What it does | Frida injects JavaScript or native libraries into running applications for dynamic instrumentation, debugging and reverse engineering. | rev.ng is an open-source binary-analysis framework and decompiler built on LLVM and QEMU. |
Plans
rev.ng
- Open sourceFree
- Public projectFree
- Private projectPriced on request
- StandalonePriced on request
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`.
rev.ng
rev.ng is a decompiler for reverse engineering that turns supported binaries into syntactically valid, standard-compliant C. Its data-structure recovery uses information across functions to identify linked lists, structs, arrays, and arrays of structs. The listed default architectures are x86, x86-64, ARM, AArch64, MIPS, and S390X; supported imports include ELF, PE/COFF, Mach-O, DWARF, PDB, and IDB. Users can define functions, edit prototypes, and rename items in YAML files, or interact through an HTTP API. The interface is described as available in a browser or standalone app, with cloud and standalone use offering the same experience. Collaborators can share a project URL; public projects include two collaborators. The rev.ng decompilation pipeline is Free Software, while the UI is intended for commercial cloud and standalone versions. The service is free and lists API, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows platforms. The site invites users to join a closed beta for the UI.