CyberChef
Perform all manner of operations within a web browser such as AES, DES and Blowfish encryption and decryption, creating hexdumps, calculating hashes, and much more.
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Still maintained? Yes: 82 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v11.5.0 (Sep 2026).
Comparisons in Miscellaneous: ChatGPT alternatives, DeepL alternatives.
At a glance
CyberChef quick facts
- Health score
- 88/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 36,256
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v11.5.0, Sep 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "CyberChef is a simple, intuitive web app for carrying out all manner of "cyber" operations within a web browser. These operations include simple encoding like XOR and Base64, more complex encryption like AES, DES and Blowfish, creating binary and hexdumps, compression and decompression of data, calculating hashes and checksums, IPv6 and X.509 parsing, changing character encodings, and much more."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
CyberChef scores 88/100, #33 of 77 in Miscellaneous: 82 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v11.5.0, 1 month ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 36,256 stars add 18.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
82 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v11.5.0 released 1 month ago
- Stars 18.2 / 20
36k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 82
- Last 90 days
- 352
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #33 of 77 tools in Miscellaneous by health , between Garlic-Hub (#32) and re:Director (#34) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Javascript |
| Latest release | v11.5.0 · 1 month ago |
| Stars | 36,256 |
| Open issues | 426 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | gchq/CyberChef ↗ |
CyberChef vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with CyberChef (Miscellaneous), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CyberChef (this tool) | 88 | 36k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Zero-TOTP | 86 | 26 | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Digisteps | 71 | 1 | AGPL-3.0 | 10 days ago |
| ClipCascade | 67 | 2k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| revealjs | 67 | 72k | MIT | 1 month ago |
| Digiwords | 65 | 1 | AGPL-3.0 | 17 days ago |
CyberChef: common questions
Is CyberChef still maintained?
CyberChef had 82 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v11.5.0, is from 1 month ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.