memwatch vs PINCE

memwatch is a free, open-source macOS utility for searching and changing values in a running process’s memory through an interactive interface. Searches can target strings, floating-point numbers in 32- or 64-bit formats, and signed or unsigned integers from 8 to 64 bits. Comparisons such as equal, greater than, or less than can narrow results. Once values are found, memwatch can read, write, monitor, freeze, or unfreeze them. Its interface also has commands to pause and resume a target process and send it Unix signals, though execution-state support is described as experimental. The project presents memwatch as a macOS memory editor and says it should build and run on recent OS X versions. Its author describes using it for game cheats and as a debugging aid alongside tools such as gdb. Installation requires building from source with phosg and libamd64, then running make and sudo make install. Attaching to a target process uses sudo. The MIT License permits use without charge and supplies the software without warranty.

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.