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SAST31 Static Application Security Testing
SCA28 Software Composition Analysis
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Mobile Application Security

Analyze, instrument and harden Android and iOS applications.

23 tools profiled

How it differs Analyses Android and iOS app binaries, statically and at runtime. The backend APIs an app calls belong to API security or DAST.

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Open source 2 Open source and commercial 0 Commercial 0 Commercial, free tier 0 Freemium 0 Free 0

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Dynamic Analysis 0 Mobile App Scanning 0 Reverse Engineering 1 Apk Analysis 2 Binary Analysis 0 Compliance Reporting 0 Decompiler 0 Disassembler 0 Mobile App Shielding 0 Mobile App Testing 0 Rasp 0 Ai Assisted Remediation 0 Android Decompiler 1 Android Dynamic Analysis 0 Android Reverse Engineering 1 Android Static Analysis 0 Anti Tampering 0 Api Discovery 0 App Store Monitoring 0 Attack Surface Enumeration 0 Binary Repackaging 1 Binary Static Analysis 0 Code Obfuscation 0 Compliance Testing 0 Continuous Mobile Scanning 0 Data Flow Analysis 0 Debugging 0 Device Integrity 0 Device Lab 0 Disassembly 0 Dynamic Instrumentation 0 Firmware Emulation 0 Https Interception 0 Instrumentation 0 Ios Binary Analysis 0 Ios Research 0 Ipa Analysis 0 Ipc Testing 0 Mobile Sast 0 Mobile Static Analysis 0 Native Binary Analysis 0 Obfuscation 0 Pinning Bypass 0 Protection Validation 0 Runtime App Protection 0 Runtime Hooking 0 Runtime Mobile Exploration 0 Scanner Orchestration 0 Scriptable Proxy 0 Secret Detection 0 Static Analysis 0 Tamper Detection 0 Threat Monitoring 0 Traffic Analysis 0 Virtual Device Lab 0

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SaaS 0 CLI 2 CI/CD 0 Self hosted 0 Desktop 1 Library 0 Agent 0

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Java 2 Kotlin 2 Objective-C 0 Swift 0 C++ 0 Cpp 0 JavaScript 0 Python 0 Smali 2 Dart 0

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GitHub Actions 0 Jenkins 0 Gitlab Ci 0 Azure DevOps 0 Jira 0 Bitrise 0 Capacitor 0 Cordova 0 Fastlane 0 Flutter 0 Frida 0 Ghidra 0 Gradle 0 React Native 0 Slack 0 Xcode 0

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Signals Verified profile 2 Has endorsements 0

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Apktool

Apktool project

Mobile Security

Reverse engineering tool that decodes Android APK resources and DEX bytecode to editable form and rebuilds a working package from them.

Open source

Established Compare Apktool Verified
Jadx

skylot

Mobile Security

Decompiler that converts Android DEX bytecode into readable Java source, with a command line tool and a graphical browser for APKs.

Open source

Established Compare Jadx Verified

Apktool

Apktool project

Reverse engineering tool that decodes Android APK resources and DEX bytecode to editable form and rebuilds a working package from them.

Open source Established

Mobile Security Compare Apktool
Jadx

skylot

Decompiler that converts Android DEX bytecode into readable Java source, with a command line tool and a graphical browser for APKs.

Open source Established

Mobile Security Compare Jadx

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Apktool

Jadx

Apktool

Jadx