Overview
Summary
The useful answer before the supporting detail.
Hopper is a powerful tool for disassembling executable code and inspecting the result, combining analysis with a Mac-native interface S1. It is used by developers, researchers, and security professionals for reverse engineering needs S1. The product offers interactive CFG visualization, Python scripting, and AI-assisted analysis via an integrated MCP server S1.
Product identity and positioning
Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.
- Identity: Hopper is a disassembler, decompiler, and debugger for macOS S1.
- Core purpose: It helps users inspect and understand executable code by disassembling and analyzing it S1.
- Intended users: Developers, researchers, and security professionals S1.
- Product scope: A desktop application specialized for macOS and iOS development S1.
- Positioning: Positioned as "Everything You Need for Reverse Engineering" S1.
- Claimed distinction: Combines powerful analysis with an intuitive Mac-native interface at an affordable price S1.
Use cases and audiences
Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.
Traffic and search
SEO analysis
Collected Oct 20, 2026hopperapp.com: about 248 monthly organic visits across 251 ranking keywords. Scout crawled 6 pages and measured a technical health score of 83/100.
Search summary
The useful answer before the supporting detail.
Hopper. hopperapp.com: about 248 monthly organic visits across 251 ranking keywords. Scout crawled 6 pages and measured a technical health score of 83/100.
- Organic search traffic (estimated): 248 monthly visits from search.
- Strongest sampled ranking: hopper disassembler at position 1.
- Leading page in the collected evidence: https://www.hopperapp.com/.
- Closest measured organic competitor: reddit.com, appearing 2 times in the sampled first-page SERPs.
- Technical crawl: 6 pages, health score 83/100.
Website intelligence — Collected evidence
Company identity and positioning
| Page type | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|
| identity | The home of Hopper disassembler. | https://www.hopperapp.com/contact.html |
| other | Everything You Need for Reverse Engineering | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| other | Hopper Disassembler for Mac requires macOS 12.4 or higher. | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| other | Built with a blazingly fast, beautifully polished Cocoa interface that prioritizes keyboard shortcuts and native macOS integration for a smooth user experience. | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| other | Now enhanced with AI capabilities through an integrated MCP server, enabling seamless connections to your preferred large language models for intelligent analysis. | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| other | Specialized for macOS and iOS development. Decode mangled Swift names and extract Objective-C selectors and messages. | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| other | Automate analysis with powerful Python scripting support. Access most Hopper features programmatically for custom workflows. | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| other | Find what you are looking for. The inspector panel automatically adapts its content according to the context. | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| other | Join thousands of developers, researchers, and security professionals who rely on Hopper for their reverse engineering needs. | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| other | Fantastic tool that keeps getting better. Hopper is an affordable disassembler that supports scripting (in Python). A great tool if you ever need to take apart code for debugging, or just learning. Disassembles Mach-O, ARM, and Windows binaries. | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| other | Hopper is an excellent modern disassembler, decompiler, and debugger. The control flow graph and pseudo code features by themselves are well worth the price. Perhaps the best aspect of Hopper is that while being a powerful disassembler, it’s also a true Mac application; it contains all the attributes you’ve come to expect from well-designed Mac applications. Hopper has assisted Mac OS X in its quest to be the developer’s choice, by providing the highest quality tools. Thank you Hopper Team, and keep up the great work. | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| other | Thanks a lot :) Your tool is really great. I appreciate that you made it affordable (so I can just buy it and expense it, instead of going through long procurement process for something like IDAPro, which costs way too much). | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
Important pages
Pages earning the most estimated search traffic in the sample.
| URL | Ranking keywords | Estimated traffic | Best position |
|---|---|---|---|
| https://www.hopperapp.com/ | 14 | 148.1 | 1 |
| https://www.hopperapp.com/download | 4 | 24.4 | 3 |
| https://www.hopperapp.com/faq.html | 1 | 17.8 | 2 |
| https://www.hopperapp.com/download.html | 1 | 2.8 | 8 |
Website intelligence — Collected evidence
Prioritized website intelligence pages
| Type | Page | Words | Change | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| other | Hopper | 820 | new | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| changes | Untitled page | 2,931 | new | https://www.hopperapp.com/rss/changelog.php |
| changes | Untitled page | 2,772 | new | https://www.hopperapp.com/rss/html_changelog.php |
| trust | Hopper - Privacy | 607 | new | https://www.hopperapp.com/privacy.html |
| trust | Hopper - Terms and Conditions | 1,377 | new | https://www.hopperapp.com/terms.html |
| identity | Hopper - Contact | 32 | new | https://www.hopperapp.com/contact.html |
Features
No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.
Pricing and plans
No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.
Integrations and supported platforms
No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.
Product and company updates
Rank tracking
Persistent keyword baselines and position movement.
This analysis created the first position baseline at 2026-10-20T22:46:35.192Z. Movement appears after the next fresh analysis using the same location and language.
| Keyword | Current | Previous | Movement | Volume | Ranking URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hopper disassembler | 1 | Baseline | Baseline | 260 | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| hopper tool | 1 | Baseline | Baseline | 170 | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| hopper mcp | 2 | Baseline | Baseline | 110 | https://www.hopperapp.com/faq.html |
| hopper download | 3 | Baseline | Baseline | 140 | https://www.hopperapp.com/download |
| download hopper | 4 | Baseline | Baseline | 140 | https://www.hopperapp.com/download |
| hopper install | 1 | Baseline | Baseline | 30 | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| hopper software | 2 | Baseline | Baseline | 20 | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| hopper app download | 8 | Baseline | Baseline | 140 | https://www.hopperapp.com/download.html |
| mac disassembler | 2 | Baseline | Baseline | 10 | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| what is the purpose of the hopper | 8 | Baseline | Baseline | 70 | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| disassembler for linux | 6 | Baseline | Baseline | 40 | https://www.hopperapp.com/download |
| hopper pro | 21 | Baseline | Baseline | 260 | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| hopper support | 13 | Baseline | Baseline | 70 | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| disassembler tool | 16 | Baseline | Baseline | 70 | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| redhopper | 16 | Baseline | Baseline | 50 | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| hopper installation | 13 | Baseline | Baseline | 30 | https://www.hopperapp.com/download |
| ipa decompiler | 13 | Baseline | Baseline | 30 | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| was hopper in russia or alaska | 22 | Baseline | Baseline | 70 | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| linux disassembler | 22 | Baseline | Baseline | 40 | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| disassembler tools | 22 | Baseline | Baseline | 10 | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
Features
Features and capabilities
Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.
| Capability | What it does |
|---|---|
| Disassembly | Disassembles executable code and inspects the result S1. |
| Decompilation | Decompiles code to a higher-level representation S1. |
| Debugging | Provides debugging capabilities S1. |
| Interactive CFG visualization | Visualizes control flow graphs with PDF export and annotation S1. |
| Python scripting | Automates analysis with Python scripting support S1. |
| Extensibility | Adds custom file format parsers and CPU architecture backends S1. |
| AI-assisted analysis | Integrates an MCP server for connecting to LLMs for intelligent analysis S1. |
Integrations and ecosystem
Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.
| Integration or interface | Type | What it enables |
|---|---|---|
| MCP server | AI interface | Connects to preferred large language models for intelligent analysis S1. |
| Python scripting | API | Automates analysis tasks via Python scripts S1. |
| Custom file format parsers | Extension framework | Adds support for custom file formats S1. |
| Custom CPU architecture backends | Extension framework | Adds support for new CPU architectures S1. |
| PDF export | Data portability | Exports interactive CFG visualizations to PDF S1. |
Pricing
Pricing and plans
Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.
| Plan or offer | Verified price and billing | Included | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal License | $99 one-time, perpetual with one year of updates S1 | Full product | Not transferable S1 |
| Computer License | $129 one-time, perpetual with one year of updates S1 | Full product | Per computer; volume pricing from $116.10 for 2–9 licenses S1 |
| Free Trial | Free demo download S24 | Limited functionality | No save/export of disassembly or modified binaries S24 |
Competition
Competitive landscape
Domains competing for the same organic search demand.
Sampled competitors
| Competitor | First-page appearances | Sampled queries | Average position | Queries observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reddit.com | 2 | 2 | 4 | hopper disassembler, hopper tool |
| emisupply.com | 1 | 1 | 1 | hopper tool |
| medium.com | 1 | 1 | 2 | hopper disassembler |
| en.wikipedia.org | 1 | 1 | 2 | hopper tool |
| formulae.brew.sh | 1 | 1 | 3 | hopper disassembler |
| harborfreight.com | 1 | 1 | 3 | hopper tool |
| appsecsanta.com | 1 | 1 | 5 | hopper disassembler |
| hackster.io | 1 | 1 | 5 | hopper tool |
| github.com | 1 | 1 | 6 | hopper disassembler |
| facebook.com | 1 | 1 | 6 | hopper tool |
Website intelligence — Collected evidence
Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims
No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.
Independent review sources discovered
No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.
AI visibility
Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.
AI-assistant referral traffic
- Estimated current generative-AI referral share: —
Scout traffic model did not return a separate AI-referral trend series for this domain.
Website intelligence — Collected evidence
Site-stated AI capabilities
| Page type | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|
| other | Now enhanced with AI capabilities through an integrated MCP server, enabling seamless connections to your preferred large language models for intelligent analysis. | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.
Marketing opportunities
Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.
| Opportunity | Recommended action | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Striking-distance keyword | Move “download hopper” from position 4 toward the top three. | Volume 140 · https://www.hopperapp.com/download |
| Important page | Strengthen the page already earning search visibility before creating an unrelated page. | https://www.hopperapp.com/download.html · 1 sampled keywords · best position 8 |
| Competitor gap | Review the sampled queries where reddit.com appears. | 2 first-page appearances across hopper disassembler, hopper tool |
| Technical priority | Missing page title | https://www.hopperapp.com/rss/html_changelog.php |
Website intelligence — Collected evidence
Website evidence gaps
- pricing: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
- features: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
- integrations: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
- customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
- reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
- technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
Trust and proof
Customers, proof, and reviews
Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.
Independent reviews
| Platform | Page | How it was found | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| AppSec Santa | Hopper Disassembler 2026: Better Than Ghidra on macOS? | Grounded web search | - Commercial license required (not free like Ghidra) - macOS and Linux only (no Windows version) - Focused on Apple platforms; less comprehensive for other architectures - Smaller plugin ecosystem compared to IDA Pro or Ghidra |
Customer proof
| Proof type | Named customer or source | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Testimonial | Official Website | testimonial — Great Exploration Utility★★★★★ ... (Hopper) |
Independent mentions
- Hopper - FAQ — Hopper supports what kind of processor? Hopper can disassemble binaries built for Intel (32 and 64-bit), ARM (ARMv6, ARMv7, and ARM64), and PowerPC processors. It is also possible to extend to other CPU thanks to the SDK.
External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.
Company, security, and trust
Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.
| Signal | Finding | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Company and ownership | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
| Contact and support | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
| Legal and privacy | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
| Security and compliance | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
| Uptime and status page | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
| Domain registered | 2011-02-25 | — |
| Domain expires | 2027-02-25 | — |
Not found on the collected pages: company and ownership, contact and support, legal and privacy, security and compliance, uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.
Documentation and product updates
Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.
| Resource or update | Type | What is available | Date or freshness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hopper - Download | Changelog | Public product change history. (source) | Not dated |
Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.
Technical
Technical and delivery signals
Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.
| Signal | Finding | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension) | Desktop application for macOS and Linux S1 S24. | S1 S24 |
| Platforms and apps | Requires macOS 12.4 or higher S1; Linux version tested with specific distributions S24. | S1 S24 |
| API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins) | Supports Python scripting, custom file format parsers, CPU backends, and an MCP server S1. | S1 |
| Data ownership and export | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
| Performance and reliability claims | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
| Release activity | Changelog available via RSS feed S24. | S24 |
Measured infrastructure
Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.
| Signal | Finding |
|---|---|
| Domain registered | 2011-02-25 — OVH sas |
| Domain expires | 2027-02-25 |
| First archived | 2012-04-25 — web archive |
| TLS certificate | Let's Encrypt, valid, expires 2026-12-08 |
| Security headers | none served |
| Headers not served | HSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy |
| Server header | Apache |
| Mail handled by | mx1.ovh.net, mx2.ovh.net |
| Nameservers | ns18.ovh.net, dns18.ovh.net |
Not measurable: rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.
Technical site audit
A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.
Scout — Bounded technical crawl
- Pages crawled: 6 of 15 maximum
- Technical health: 83/100
- Critical issues: 1
- Warnings: 17
- Notices: 3
Issues
Crawled pages
| Status | Title | H1s | Words | Response | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200 | Hopper | 9 | 786 | 425 ms | https://www.hopperapp.com/ |
| 200 | Hopper - Download | 1 | 339 | 425 ms | https://www.hopperapp.com/download.html |
| 200 | Cryptic Apps Store | 1 | 562 | 394 ms | https://sites.fastspring.com/hopperapp/product/hopperdisassemblerv4?referrer=webstore |
| 200 | Hopper - EULA | 2 | 659 | 142 ms | https://www.hopperapp.com/license_agreement.html |
| 200 | Missing title | 1 | 2546 | 154 ms | https://www.hopperapp.com/rss/html_changelog.php |
| 200 | Cryptic Apps Store | 1 | 562 | 94 ms | https://sites.fastspring.com/hopperapp/product/hopperdisassemblerv4 |
This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.
Search Console and Analytics
First-party search and behavioral data connection state.
Modeled acquisition channels
Scout traffic model did not return a traffic-source distribution for this domain.
First-party connections
| Integration | Status | Data available after connection |
|---|---|---|
| Google Search Console | Not connected | Clicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices |
| Google Analytics | Not connected | Organic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices |
No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.
Limits and method
Limitations and open questions
Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.
The collected pages do not mention any competitors. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed pricing information on the main site, no explicit security or compliance certifications, and no customer case studies with named organizations. Open questions: What are the exact limits of the free trial? What is the update policy after the first year? How does the AI integration handle privacy?
Sources, method, and limitations
Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.
This report is based on 3 collected pages from hopperapp.com (homepage, download page) and an external pricing research source. The static crawl completed, but the browser rendering render was partial. The sitemap was unavailable. External proof search was used to verify pricing. Limitations: Some pages may not have been fully rendered, and the external search only verified the existence of results, not their content.
- Official Websitehttps://www.hopperapp.com/Verified
- Official Websitehttps://www.hopperapp.com/download.htmlVerified
- Official Websitehttps://sites.fastspring.com/hopperapp/product/hopperdisassemblerv4?referrer=webstoreVerified
- Review Sitehttps://appsecsanta.com/hopperVerified
- Articlehttps://www.hopperapp.com/faq.htmlVerified