Alternatives to recon-ng
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. recon-ng itself: install recon-ng.
asimov
Automatically exclude development dependencies from Apple Time Machine backups
httm
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!)
gradle-profiler
A tool for gathering profiling and benchmarking information for Gradle builds
croc
Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package:
maigret
🕵️♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 6K websites
fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool
BitBar
Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)
Xournal++
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUS
archi-steam-farm
C# application with primary purpose of farming Steam cards from multiple accounts simultaneously
git-secrets
Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories
skopeo
Work with remote images registries - retrieving information, images, signing content
confd
Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul
rtl_433
Program to decode radio transmissions from devices on the ISM bands (and other frequencies)
Dayflow
The automatic work journal/time tracker. Privately turns your screen into a timeline of what you actually accomplished. Open-source and local-first
zsh-autocomplete
🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion
magic_enum
Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++, work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code
noTunes
A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching
gotests
Automatically generate Go test boilerplate from your source code
gau
Fetch known URLs from AlienVault's Open Threat Exchange, the Wayback Machine, and Common Crawl
pipet
Swiss-army tool for scraping and extracting data from online assets, made for hackers
fernflower
Decompiler from Java bytecode to Java, used in IntelliJ IDEA
RipMe
Downloads albums from the web in bulk for archive purposes
rure
An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs
ali
Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than recon-ng — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
recon-ng is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.