Frida
Shares rank 8 of 9 reverse engineering tools by recommenders
Free toolkit people use to bypass certificate pinning and trace app behavior, often as a check against an original app's traffic.
Free toolkit people use to bypass certificate pinning and trace app behavior, often as a check against an original app's traffic.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Bypasses certificate pinning easily
“there are several Frida scripts that patch common pinning implementations”
Comment from 16 Apr 2026 in “Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs” “Frida can usually un-pin those pretty easily.”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “mitmproxy adds --emudhra option” Traces useful as verification harness
“use Frida traces from the original as a verification harness”
Comment from 21 Jul 2026 in “Reverse-engineering is cheap now”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Sometimes a hassle to use
“Even that can be a hassle sometimes.”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “We intercepted the White House app's traffic. 77% of requests go to 3rd parties”
Other reverse engineering tools people recommend
The four most recommended other reverse engineering tools, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghidra | 80 | 20 | 80% | 13 | — | Approved |
| GhidraMCP | 30 | 11 | 73% | 10 | — | Approved |
| IDA Pro | 25 | 7 | 78% | 9 | — | Approved |
| REA Reverse-Engineer Anything | 14 | 9 | 61% | 2 | — | — |
| FridaThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
4 of the 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Frida can usually un-pin those pretty easily.”
“use Frida traces from the original as a verification harness”
“there are several Frida scripts that patch common pinning implementations”
“Even that can be a hassle sometimes.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.