UEFITool vs Universal-IFR-Extractor

UEFITool

UEFI firmware image viewer and editor (by LongSoft)

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Utility that can extract the internal forms represenation from both EFI and UEFI modules. (by LongSoft)

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UEFITool		Universal-IFR-Extractor
	Project
36	Mentions	5
4,476	Stars	212
1.2%	Growth	-
4.4	Activity	0.0
2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
C	Language	C++
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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UEFITool

Posts with mentions or reviews of UEFITool. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-30.

Auto-On-Time BIOS mod, different boot entry
1 project | /r/Dell | 22 Nov 2023

Open 1 E7250A24 -- 1 System BIOS with BIOS Guard vA.24.bin file with UEFITool
[GUIDE] ThinkPad BIOS: Reading, Patching, and Flashing
3 projects | /r/thinkpad | 30 Sep 2023

UEFIPatch from LongSoft's GitHub A UEFI patchtool built on the older UEFITool engine. UEFITool is not needed for this patch, only the UEFIPatch applcation.
Guide about how to check PCI-E Bifurcation support of any mainboard
3 projects | /r/Amd | 17 Jun 2023

Download UEFITool from https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool/releases for example UEFITool_NE_A66_win32.zip is hidden behind the show all assets button
Help with BIOS Patching Thinkpad T480s
1 project | /r/hackintosh | 17 May 2023
Need To Create My Own BIOS File
1 project | /r/thinkpad | 17 Feb 2023

There's a discussion here about this being done successfully on a ThinkPad T460 with a SPI programmer and UEFITool. The same method should apply to the T460p.
How to unlock BIOS (AMD models, not sure if it works with Intel)
3 projects | /r/maingear | 11 Feb 2023

UEFITool: https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool/releases
5800x3d appears faster after waking up then on cold boot.
2 projects | /r/Amd | 7 Feb 2023

If HPET is not an option in firmware, then it is disabled (0x00) and hidden from you. Which in practice is bad. The only option for users in this case is to download your firmware from the vendor, use this tool to locate the register and set the value with this tool to enabled (0x01).
Entering hidden Advanced menu in bios v.2.06 on Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55
1 project | /r/AcerNitro | 13 Jan 2023

UEFITool
Google announces official Android support for RISC-V
4 projects | /r/opensource | 6 Jan 2023

How to view proprietary blobs on your system
Change BIOS Boot Logo
1 project | /r/DellXPS | 12 Dec 2022

I have been a long ThinkPad user and have bought an XPS 13 for the first time. I changed my boot logo on my machines before using this tool following this guide.

Universal-IFR-Extractor

Posts with mentions or reviews of Universal-IFR-Extractor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-11.

How to unlock BIOS (AMD models, not sure if it works with Intel)
3 projects | /r/maingear | 11 Feb 2023

IFR extractor: https://github.com/LongSoft/Universal-IFR-Extractor/releases
[GUIDE] Unlock the EC TDP limit of your low power U series Intel CPU
4 projects | /r/overclocking | 16 Jul 2022

If you are like me and don't have the option, you need to modify the option through EFI shell. Download UEFI Tool, IFR extractor, RU.efi, and UEFI Shell, and your bios.bin/biosfd . On HP laptops, you can obtain it through the third option "Copy" . You can find the platform ID in the bios.
DELL G7 7700 THERMAL THROTTLE FIX, LISTED STEPS. I7-10750H RTX2070 MOBILE // NOV 9TH,2021
3 projects | /r/Dell | 12 Apr 2022

The file we just extracted contains all of the toggle-able options your computer BIOS has, many of which Dell hides by default. We will need one more tool to get a human-readable version of these options, which is LongSoft’s version of IFR Extractor. (Older versions of IFR Extractor do not provide the location of the EFI variables you need to edit, but this one does.) Windows warned me the file might be unsafe, but I had no problems with it; for those who want to do due diligence, the repo/source code is here.)
[GUIDE] How to Undervolt(and even overclock) the Acer predator Helios 300 2021 11th gen Intel CPUs
3 projects | /r/acer_predator | 10 Oct 2021

download all three of these files. UEFI tool , IFR Extractor, grubx64 and the bios for your laptop
{Guide] Tools to unlock your CPU OC
3 projects | /r/Alienware | 4 Oct 2021

Download Universal IFR Extractor for Windows ( Release 0.3.6 · LongSoft/Universal-IFR-Extractor · GitHub ) then open a command prompt, put the following syntax in it ->

What are some alternatives?

When comparing UEFITool and Universal-IFR-Extractor you can also consider the following projects:

grub-mod-setup_var - A modified grub allowing tweaking hidden BIOS settings.

coreboot - Mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. We don't handle Pull Requests.

Smokeless_UMAF

thinkpad-firmware-patches - Collection of ThinkPad UEFI patches.

grub_setup_var - Patch for grub allowing tweaking of hidden EFI variables

Universal-IFR-Extractor - Utility that can extract the internal forms represenation from both EFI and UEFI modules.

FanControl.Releases - This is the release repository for Fan Control, a highly customizable fan controlling software for Windows.

BIOSUtilities - Collection of various BIOS/UEFI-related utilities which aid in research and/or modding purposes.

chipsec - Platform Security Assessment Framework

ru-uefi - No source code here, this is just where I store the RU.EFI and RU.EXE binary files. They are all encrypted, please find password on my blog page.