LLM4Decompile, OGhidra, DAILA: 7 AI decompilers, measured

Every thread about turning a binary back into source ends with the same seven repositories. I pulled stars and last-push dates for all of them this morning, plus the decompilers they sit on top of, because the list gets recommended far more often than it gets checked.

project	stars	last push	what it is
LLM4Decompile	7,034	216 days	models trained to turn assembly back into C
reverser_ai	1,137	119 days	renames Binary Ninja functions using a local model
DAILA	707	64 days	one plugin interface across Ghidra, IDA and angr
OGhidra	439	2 days	Ghidra talking to Ollama, from a national lab
decompai	227	310 days	upload an x86 binary, analyse it by chat
sentinel-reverse	78	223 days	autonomous binary analysis CLI, MLX focused
GhidraLens	0	17 days	Ghidra views inside an AI client

Median 439 stars. Five of the seven have not been touched in two months or more, two of them in seven and ten. The only one pushed this week is a bridge to Ollama rather than a decompiler, and the one with the most stars is a research release that has sat still since February.

Now the layer underneath, on the same day:

tool	stars	last push
Ghidra	77,196	1 day
jadx	50,480	4 days
ILSpy	26,075	1 day
dnSpyEx	11,078	22 days
Il2CppDumper	9,392	759 days
RetDec	8,630	113 days
AssetRipper	8,349	same day

The whole AI layer adds up to 9,622 stars, less than an eighth of Ghidra on its own, and four of the seven classic tools shipped something this week.

So the honest shape of it: the decompiler does the work, the model reads the output and guesses names. Where to start depends entirely on what you are holding.

what you have	start with	what a model adds
Windows .exe or .dll	Ghidra, RetDec	naming functions, guessing structs
Android APK	jadx, apktool	explaining obfuscated Java
.NET assembly	ILSpy, dnSpyEx	little, the C# is already readable
Java .jar	CFR, FernFlower	little, same reason
Unity Mono game	AssetRipper, dnSpyEx	recovering intent in generated code
Unity IL2CPP	Il2CppDumper plus Ghidra	mapping classes back to methods
iOS or macOS binary	Ghidra, Hopper	Swift name demangling, mostly
Flutter release build	Ghidra and Dart tooling	very little worth the time

None of it gives back a project you can build. Comments, local variable names and file layout are gone at compile time and no model recovers them, it invents plausible ones. .NET, Java and Unity Mono come back close to source because the bytecode kept the names. Optimised C and C++, Swift, Flutter AOT and anything obfuscated stay a long manual read.

And the obvious line: your own binaries, or ones you have written permission to pull apart.