Open source alternatives to YARA
50 open source Utilities apps to use instead, best rated first.
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Builder.io
LaunchBuilder.io is a visual headless CMS and development platform that lets teams create, manage, and optimize web pages without constant developer involvement. It integrates with any tech stack (React, Next.js, Vue, etc.) and includes AI-powere
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Elasticsearch
LaunchElasticsearch is an open-source, RESTful search engine designed for scalability, reliability, and easy management.
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Handy
LaunchCross-platform desktop app that transcribes your voice into any text field using a keyboard shortcut, with all processing done locally on your machine.
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Hermes Agent
LaunchCross-platform desktop agent from Nous Research that connects to Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, and more, with persistent memory, scheduling, and isolated sandboxing.
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InfluxDB
LaunchInfluxDB handles high-velocity, high-resolution time series data at scale, built for telemetry, edge devices, IoT, and physical AI workloads.
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Kitty
LaunchHigh-performance terminal emulator with GPU acceleration, graphics support, and advanced scripting capabilities for developers and system administrators.
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About YARA
YARA
The pattern matching swiss knife for malware researchers (and everyone else)
YARA is a tool aimed at (but not limited to) helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families (or whatever you want to describe) based on textual or binary patterns. Each description, a.k.a rule, consists of a set of strings and a boolean expression which determine its logic.
- Price
- Free
- Made by
- VirusTotal
- Category
- Utilities
- Website
- virustotal.github.io


