ret-sync vs ghidra-ci

ret-sync

ret-sync is a set of plugins that helps to synchronize a debugging session (WinDbg/GDB/LLDB/OllyDbg2/x64dbg) with IDA/Ghidra/Binary Ninja disassemblers. (by bootleg)

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ghidra-ci

Nightly builds of NSA's Ghidra (by roblabla)

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ret-sync		ghidra-ci
	Project
3	Mentions	1
1,881	Stars	33
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	5.4
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
C	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	-

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ret-sync

Posts with mentions or reviews of ret-sync. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-08.

ret-sync+WinDbg+Ghidra - program unavailable
1 project | /r/ghidra | 18 Apr 2022

I am trying to connect Ghidra project to WinDbg Preview using ret-sync (https://github.com/bootleg/ret-sync). I think I have everything installed correctly, but in Ghidra console output for ret-sync extension I get:
I'm looking for a program-flow highlighting tool. Any ideas?
2 projects | /r/AskReverseEngineering | 8 Feb 2022

ret-sync: synchronize a debugger (WinDbg / GDB / LLDB / OllyDbg2 / x64dbg) with a disassembler (IDA / Ghidra / Binary Ninja) in which you can colorize the trace. See the bc command.
Announcing version 7.6 for IDA Freeware! Includes cloud based decompiler.
2 projects | /r/ReverseEngineering | 10 May 2021

ghidra-ci

Posts with mentions or reviews of ghidra-ci. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-10.

Announcing version 7.6 for IDA Freeware! Includes cloud based decompiler.
2 projects | /r/ReverseEngineering | 10 May 2021

Shameless plug: you can go to https://github.com/roblabla/ghidra-ci/releases to get a nightly, cross-platform ghidra build (only thing missing is the GhidraDev eclipse extension).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ret-sync and ghidra-ci you can also consider the following projects:

ghidra - Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework

REDRIVER2 - Driver 2 Playstation game reverse engineering effort

flare-ida - IDA Pro utilities from FLARE team

radare2 - UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset

Ghidra-Cpp-Class-Analyzer - Ghidra C++ Class and Run Time Type Information Analyzer

capstone - Capstone disassembly/disassembler framework: Core (Arm, Arm64, BPF, EVM, M68K, M680X, MOS65xx, Mips, PPC, RISCV, Sparc, SystemZ, TMS320C64x, Web Assembly, X86, X86_64, XCore) + bindings. [Moved to: https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone]

tenet - A Trace Explorer for Reverse Engineers

ghidra-setup - An Inno Setup script to package Ghidra for Windows

semblance - Disassembler for Windows executables. Supports 16-bit NE (New Executable), MZ (DOS), and PE (Portable Executable, i.e. Win32) files.

obfDetect - IDA plugin to pinpoint obfuscated code

bincat - Binary code static analyser, with IDA integration. Performs value and taint analysis, type reconstruction, use-after-free and double-free detection