PE-bear AlternativesResource Editors and other similar apps like PE-bear

PE-bear is described as 'Portable Executable reversing tool with a friendly GUI' and is a Resource Editor in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to PE-bear for Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and FreeBSD. The best PE-bear alternative is Resource Hacker, which is free. Other great apps like PE-bear are Anya, Universal Extractor 2, Malcat and GARbro.

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  1. Anya icon
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    Anya is a privacy-first static malware analysis tool for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It combines PE, ELF, and Mach-O binary analysis with MITRE ATT&CK mapping, confidence-based risk scoring, and plain-English explanations. All offline, with zero network calls.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Universal Extractor 2 is an unofficial updated and extended version of the original UniExtract by Jared Breland. It brings several hundred changes including community-wanted ones such as a batch mode, auto-updater and scan-only-functionality.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. Malcat icon
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    Malcat is a feature-rich hexadecimal editor / disassembler / decompiler for reverse engineers and malware analysts. It has support for many file formats and CPUs, can scan for signatures, decrypt/decompress data, diff files and run python scripts.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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  4. GARbro icon
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    A resource browser, archiver, and extractor specializing in game data archives. It handles uncommon file formats not supported by standard zip and rar utilities. A full list of supported formats can be found at https://morkt.github.io/GARbro/supported.html.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Free Resource Extractor is a free and handy utility to scan all DLL, EXE and OCX files and extract built-in resources like icons, bitmaps, cursors, sounds, AVI videos, HTML files, metafiles, etc. Free Resource Extractor can even extract useful resources from system files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning
    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. PE Explorer icon
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    PE Explorer is the most feature-packed program for inspecting the inner workings of your own software, and more importantly, third party Windows applications and libraries for which you do not have source code.

    51 PE Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. EXE Explorer icon
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    It reads and displays executable file properties and structure. It is compatible with PE32 (Portable Executable), PE32+ (64bit), NE (Windows 3.x New Executable) and VxD (Windows 9x Virtual Device Driver) file types. .NET executables are supported too.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. pestudio icon
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    pestudio implements a rich set of features that is especially designed to retrieve every single detail of any executable file. Results are checked against the Microsoft specification. Additionally, the content of the file being analyzed is checked against several white and black...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. ExEinfo PE icon
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    Packer, compressor detector / unpack info / internal exe tools.

    Internal Tools and Ripper Menu :

    Borland Delphi ( 2.0 - 7.0 ) Microsoft Visual C++ ver. 5,6,7,8.0 UPX exe/ dll 0.89.6 - 1.02 / 1.05 -3.03 -> Markus & Laszlo Aspack v2.12 -> Alexey Solodovnikov EXECrypto.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Resource Hacker FX is an improved Resource Hacker: it is a patcher that needs to be used on the original Resource Hacker v3.6.0.92.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Resource Hacker
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  11. Hiew icon
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    Hiew (short for Hackers view) is a popular console hex editor for DOS and Windows written by Eugene Suslikov (sen). Amongst its feature set is its ability to view files in text, hex and disassembly mode.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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