IDA Free is a free version of the professional IDA Pro disassembler, designed for binary code analysis. It offers basic disassembly, decompilation, and debugging capabilities in a single tool.
Download IDA (Official links)File size: 314 MB
The latest version of IDA is: 9.1
Operating system: Windows, Linux, Mac
Languages: English
Price: $0.00 USD
- Cross-platform disassembly. IDA Free supports a wide variety of processor architectures and file formats, allowing you to analyze code in embedded systems, mobile applications, and cross-platform software.
- Automated disassembly output. Generates high-quality disassembly results without manual adjustments, including high-level structures, function names, and comments.
- Readable pseudocode. IDA's decompilers produce maintainable pseudocode that is semantically close to the original source code through type inference and structure recovery.
- Function metadata. Access to information about known functions through the public Lumina server, which exchanges only hashes and metadata without transferring sensitive byte patterns.
- Library identification. FLIRT technology recognizes libraries used in binaries, improving the readability of the disassembled code.
- Obfuscated binary analysis. The gooMBA plugin simplifies the analysis of code obfuscated with Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic (MBA) expressions, combining algebraic techniques and program synthesis.
- Dynamic debugging. IDA Free includes debugging capabilities for multiple targets, including remote applications, making it easier to find and fix errors.
- Scripting support. Lets you automate tasks with languages such as Python, extending the analysis capabilities.
- Customizable annotations. Users can add comments and rename items to improve the understanding of the disassembled code.
- Modular interface. Designed to adapt to different reverse engineering workflows, with customization options.
IDA Free is developed by Hex-Rays and is based on the IDA Pro technology originally created by Ilfak Guilfanov. The free version offers a subset of the advanced features of the commercial product while maintaining compatibility with common architectures. Its core is written in C++ to ensure high performance in binary analysis.
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