# Rizin

> Command-line reverse-engineering framework that began as a fork of radare2. The rizin shell analyzes and disassembles binaries, debugs programs and works as a scriptable hex editor, while rz-* tools cover binary-format information, assembly, diffing, hashing, pattern search and FLIRT signatures. The README lists dozens of architectures, bytecode formats and file formats from ELF, PE and Mach-O to dyld caches and BIOS/UEFI images; rzpipe scripts it from Python, Rust, Go and other languages. Cutter is the separate GUI built on it.

- Type: Tool
- Targets: Binary · Game
- Category: Native analysis tools
- Relationship: Foundation tool
- Sources reviewed: 2026-10-18
- Added to the catalog: 2026-10-19
- Original resource: <https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/blob/db112e55614b8635b42d7515a2790ca9fb4e5d05/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/rizin/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/rizin/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/rizin/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Latest release at review: v0.9.1, published 2026-06-29, with a static Linux x86_64 build, a macOS package, Windows installers and static/shared archives, Android arm, aarch64 and x86_64 archives and a source tarball. The reviewed dev branch already declares the unreleased v0.10.0.
- Source builds use meson and ninja; meson.build requires meson 0.58.0+, although the README mentions 0.55.0. The README lists Windows 7+, macOS/iOS/iPadOS, GNU/Linux, the BSDs, Android, QNX, Solaris/Illumos, Haiku and GNU/Hurd hosts. rzpipe lives in a separate repository.
- meson.build declares LGPL-3.0-only, with COPYING and COPYING.LESSER; the LICENSES directory holds further licenses used by individual files.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/blob/db112e55614b8635b42d7515a2790ca9fb4e5d05/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/blob/db112e55614b8635b42d7515a2790ca9fb4e5d05/README.md#L61-L110>
3. <https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/blob/db112e55614b8635b42d7515a2790ca9fb4e5d05/meson.build#L1-L4>
4. <https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/blob/db112e55614b8635b42d7515a2790ca9fb4e5d05/BUILDING.md>
5. <https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/blob/db112e55614b8635b42d7515a2790ca9fb4e5d05/COPYING.LESSER>
6. <https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/tree/db112e55614b8635b42d7515a2790ca9fb4e5d05/LICENSES>
7. <https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/releases/tag/v0.9.1>

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