Discover the core of Hex-Rays guides and manuals, guiding you through IDA features and real-life usage scenarios.
New to IDA? Explore our selection of documentation to guide you through the installation process and jumpstart your reverse engineering journey.
Delve into detailed guides to discover IDA features and maximize its capabilities.
Get your IDA instance up and running on your local machine.
Check how to handle your license key file to keep IDA subscription active.
Reverse your first binary file and discover the capabilities of disassembly and decompilation.
Explore the main IDA interface and features, learn how to customize your experience and take advantage of plugins or utilities.
Discover our Developer Kit, featuring the IDA C++ SDK and IDAPython API. Additionally, explore the IDC scripting language.
Check how to install and manage Teams and Lumina servers as well as handle floating licenses.
Check the latest changes in the Hex-Rays documentation, including new tutorials and manuals, along with significant revisions to existing content.
With the recent changes to our API that came into life with SP1 for IDA 9.0, we updated Porting Guides for IDAPython and C++ SDK.
With the new or reworked IDAPython examples that were added to our examples library, we revamped the examples categories to make the navigation among them more intuitive. Take a look at the new Working with types category for samples that utilize our updated Types endpoints.
We updated the UI layout of IDAPython Reference Documentation and improve cross-referencing.
To reflect the current state of Local Types window as a one hub to all types-related operations, we updated the Subviews.
With IDA 9.0, we changed how the Hex-Rays documentation is organized and added new guides and tutorials to kickstart your IDA journey and ease the migration from previous IDA versions.
Our docs are divided into three main categories:
User Guide, dedicated to individual users and covering whole IDA products (including add-ons, like Teams and Lumina). Most of the documentation regarding IDA, like manuals or tutorials, is currently accessible under the User Guide.
Developer Guide, which focuses on developer's needs, covers the reference and contextual documentation for IDAPython API and C++ SDK, as well as native IDC language. This part is mainly dedicated to plugin authors and devs interested in enhancing basic IDA capabilities with our development kit or scripting.
Admin Guide mainly focuses on administrators installing and managing servers for Teams and Lumina or floating licenses.
In Archive, we gathered docs with rather historical value that some of you may still find interesting but focused on previous versions of IDA.
We prepared a Getting Started section for IDA newbies and also gathered additional materials to help you find your way around our IDAPython API or IDA SDK.
For those familiar with previous versions of IDA, we prepared Porting Guides for IDAPython and C++ SDK. If you use the Flexera server for floating licenses, check our Migration Guide for new Hex-Rays license server.
We added installation and setup guides for IDA Feeds plugin and idalib.