[lauriewired]

It might be better to think of Malimite as "JADX but for iOS/Mac".

(JADX is a very popular Android decompiler)

Ghidra is quite limiting, and the workflow makes iOS reverse engineering quite cumbersome.

Malimite is intended to have a swappable back-end, so theoretically compilers other than Ghidra can be used in the future.

[ghostpepper]

What parts of ghidra do you find most limiting? I thought it was supposed to be "almost as good" as IDA in terms of features, if not UX polish.

[lauriewired]

Ghidra is very feature-rich for code decompilation, however it doesn't handle dropping in an entire application bundle; only single executables.

Apple application files are special, bundling up resources and (potentially multiple) executables into the same package.

Many of these resource files are important for analysis, but have custom encodings by Apple. Malimite "digests" this information into a logical way.