ILSpy VS dnSpy

Compare ILSpy vs dnSpy and see what are their differences.

ILSpy

.NET Decompiler with support for PDB generation, ReadyToRun, Metadata (&more) - cross-platform! (by icsharpcode)
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ILSpy dnSpy
42 91
20,157 16,556
1.6% -
9.2 7.6
4 days ago over 3 years ago
C# C#
Copyright 2011-2015 AlphaSierraPapa -
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ILSpy

Posts with mentions or reviews of ILSpy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-26.

dnSpy

Posts with mentions or reviews of dnSpy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ILSpy and dnSpy you can also consider the following projects:

dnSpy - .NET debugger and assembly editor [Moved to: https://github.com/dnSpy/dnSpy]

Fody - Extensible tool for weaving .net assemblies

JustDecompile Engine - The decompilation engine of JustDecompile

dnSpy-Unity-mono - Fork of Unity mono that's used to compile mono.dll with debugging support enabled

AvaloniaILSpy - Avalonia-based .NET Decompiler (port of ILSpy)

Mono.Cecil - Cecil is a library to inspect, modify and create .NET programs and libraries.

UndertaleModTool - The most complete tool for modding, decompiling and unpacking Undertale (and other Game Maker: Studio games!)

Il2CppDumper - Unity il2cpp reverse engineer

unity-astar - A Star (A*) algorithm in C# focused on performance and setup for Unity

AssetRipper - GUI Application to work with engine assets, asset bundles, and serialized files

Celeste - Celeste Bugs & Issue Tracker + some Source Code

x64dbg - An open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis.