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IDA Pro

Long-running commercial interactive disassembler; the Hex-Rays decompiler add-on followed in 2007. Proprietary, listed as a link only.

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Original: Multi-architecture native binaries
Platform: Multi
Method: Tool
Provenance: Human-led · Maintained by a credited human team since before 2023 (repo history / project site). what this means
Status: released
Licence: proprietary
Team: Hex-Rays, Ilfak Guilfanov
Started: 1990
First release: 1991-05
Runs on: Windows, Linux, macOS
Needs the original: No

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Download it from the official repository or website. No original files are needed.

This project was rebuilt by Hex-Rays, Ilfak Guilfanov. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.

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Sep 2007 Hex-Rays Decompiler launches
May 21, 1991 IDA, the Interactive Disassembler, is released

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