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 and . Additionally, explore the IDC scripting language.
Check how to install and manage Teams and Lumina servers as well as handle floating licenses.
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:
, 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.
, 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.
mainly focuses on administrators installing and managing servers for Teams and Lumina or floating licenses.
In , 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 section for IDA newbies and also gathered additional materials to help you find your way around our or .
For those familiar with previous versions of IDA, we prepared Porting Guides for and . If you use the Flexera server for floating licenses, check our .