PECompact Alternatives

PECompact is described as 'Advanced Windows executable compressor for use by software developers and vendors. Executable packers compress executable modules (EXE, DLL, etc..) so that their physical size is considerably smaller' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to PECompact for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and PortableApps.com apps. The best PECompact alternative is FileOptimizer, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PECompact are Appetize.io, UPX, Themida and VMProtect.

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  1. FileOptimizer icon
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    FileOptimizer is a lossless file size optimizer supporting AIR, APK, APNG APPX, BMP, CBZ, DOCX, DLL, EPUB, EXE, GIF, GZ, ICO, JAR, JPEG, MNG, MP3, MPP, PNG, PPTX, ODT, OGG, OGV, PDF, PUB, SCR, SWF, TIF, VSD, WEBP, XAP, XLSX, and ZIP file formats among others.

    60 FileOptimizer alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
     
  2. UPX icon
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    UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables) achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks for most of the formats supported, because of in-place decompression.

    12 UPX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Themida icon
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    Advanced Windows software protection system, developed for software developers who wish to protect their applications against advanced reverse engineering and software cracking.

    13 Themida alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. VMProtect icon
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    VMProtect Ultimate - All-In-One Solution For Software Licensing And Protection. VMProtect protects code by executing it on a virtual machine with non-standard architecture that makes it extremely difficult to analyze and crack the software.

    13 VMProtect alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. FUPX icon
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    Graphical interface for the UPX packer which offers easy access to all documented and undocumented UPX parameters without the need for command line usage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  6. ASPack icon
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    ASPack is an advanced solution created to provide Win32 EXE file packing and to protect them against non-professional reverse engineering.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    kkrunchy is a small exe packer primarily meant for 64k intros. It's relatively useless for anything else actually, because the depacker was relatively slow in older releases (about 1-2MB per second on my machine) and is dog slow in the newest version (about 90-120k per...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Alienyze icon
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    Alienyze is a software packer and protection solution for native Windows 32-bit executable files. Alienyze allows developers to easily protect their software aginest cracking and reverse engineering, while also providing additional features such as executable compression...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9.  Like

    WWPack32 - Windows executable files compressor and protector. Compressed exe and dll files run exactly as before!. This program squeezes exe files and protects Win32 applications from cracking.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10.  Like

    Crinkler is an executable file compressor (or rather, a compressing linker) for Windows specifically targeted towards executables with a size of just a few kilobytes. As of 2020, it is the most widely used tool for compressing 1k/4k/8k intros.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. A library for some loosely related Microsoft compression formats, CAB, CHM, HLP, LIT, KWAJ and SZDD.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
     
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