The Best 15 John the Ripper Alternatives

  • ophcrack

    Ophcrack is a Windows Password cracker based on Rainbow Tables.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD

  • offline nt password registry editor

    Windows stores its user information, including crypted versions of the passwords, in a file called 'sam', usually found in \windows\system32\config.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • hashcat

    -Multi-Hash (Cracking multiple hashes at the same time) -Multi-Devices (Utilizing multiple devices in same system) -Multi-Device-Types (Utilizing mixed device types in same system) -Supports distributed cracking networks (using overlay)...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Kon-Boot

    Kon-Boot is an application which will silently bypass the authentication process of Windows based operating systems. Without overwriting your old password! In other words you can login to your Windows profile without knowing your password.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows

  • Trinity Rescue Kit

    Trinity Rescue Kit or TRK is a free live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines, but is equally usable for Linux recovery issues. Since version 3.

    Free Linux

  • oclHashcat-plus

    Worlds fastest md5crypt, phpass, mscash2 and WPA / WPA2 cracker & Worlds first and only GPGPU based rule engine.

    Free Windows Linux

  • L0phtCrack

    L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application (now called L0phtCrack 6) originally produced by Mudge from L0pht Heavy Industries. It is used to test...

    Commercial Windows

  • CrowbarDMG

    crowbarDMG is a dictionary attack tool for DMG and Spareimage files for Macs. It does require 10.5 Leopard. It really wasn’t worth the trouble to redo things to work...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • BarsWF

    World Fastest MD5 cracker BarsWF with AMD and NVIDIA support.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Cryptohaze

    A CUDA & OpenCL accelerated rainbow table implementation from the ground up, and a CUDA hash brute forcing tool with support for many hash types including MD5, SHA1...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • GoCrack

    GoCrack provides APIs to manage password cracking tasks across supported cracking engines. Supported Engines - hashcat 3.6.0+

    Free Open Source Linux

  • MDCrack

    MDCrack is a free featureful password cracker designed to bruteforce several commonly used hash algorithms at a very aggressive speed rate. It can retrieve any...

    Free Windows

  • oclHashcat-lite

    Worlds fastest NTLM, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, descrypt and SL3 cracker.

    Free Windows Linux